Law and Order An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control

Name: Law and Order An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control
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ISBN: 9780745629971

ISBN-10: 0745629970

ISBN-13: 9780745629971

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robert Reiner

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Law and order has become a key issue throughout the world. Crime stories saturate the mass media and politicians shrilly compete with each other in a race to be the toughest on crime. Prisons are crammed to bursting point, and police powers and resources extended repeatedly. After decades of explosive increase in crime rates, these have plummeted throughout the Western world in the 1990s. Yet fear of crime and violence, and the security industries catering for these anxieties, grow relentlessly. This book offers an up-to-date analysis of these contemporary trends by providing all honest and concerned citizens with a concise yet comprehensive survey of the sources of current problems and…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 9/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.40" wide x 7.48" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgements



Introduction: Neoliberalism, Crime and Control



An Inspector Calls: Putting Crime in its Place



A Mephistophelean Calculus: Measuring Crime Trends



Permissiveness versus Political Economy: Explaining Crime Trends



A New Leviathan? Law and Order Politics and Tough Crime Control



Conclusion: Law and Order - a 20:20 Vision


Notes


References


Index