Research Catalog

Title

Politics, crime control, and culture / edited by Stuart A. Scheingold.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, Dartmouth, c1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Scheingold, Stuart A.

Description

xxv, 553 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

The international library of criminology, crimal justice, and penology

Uniform Title

International library of criminology, criminal justice & penology.

Subject

• Crime > Political aspects > United States
• Crime prevention > Political aspects > United States
• Crime prevention > United States
• Criminal justice, Administration of > Political aspects > United States
• Crime > United States > Public opinion
• Public opinion > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• I. Politics, policy and punishment. Racial politics, racial disparities, and the war on crime / Michael Tonry -- Giving crime prevention top priority / Herman Schwendinger and Julia Schwendinger -- Gazette of morality and social whip : punishment, hegemony and the case of the USA, 1970-92 / Dario Melossi -- The politics of law and order : case study evidence for a conflict model of the criminal law formation process / Thomas C. Castellano and Edmund F. McGarrell -- Sexual violence, victim advocacy, and Republican criminology : Washington State's Community protection act / Stuart A. Scheingold, Toska Olson and Jana Pershing -- Policing appearances / Jean-Paul Brodeur -- Social crime prevention à la Thatcher / Michael King.
• II. Public opinion and punishment. Three strikes and you are out, but why? : the psychology of public support for punishing rule breakers / Tom R. Tyler and Robert J. Boeckmann -- Hardening of the attitudes : Americans' views on the death penalty / Phoebe C. Ellsworth and Samuel R. Gross -- A new look at public opinion on capital punishment : what citizens and legislators prefer / William J. Bowers, Margaret Vandiver and Patricia H. Dugan -- The modern prison as total institution? : public perception versus objective reality / Keith Farrington -- Punitive attitudes toward criminals : racial consensus or racial conflict? / Steven F. Cohn, Steven E. Barkan and William A. Halteman -- African American conspiracy theories and the social construction of crime / Theodore Sasson.
• III. The cultural construction of crime and punishment. Between the waves : mass-mediated themes of crime and justice / Gregg Barak -- Getting the message out : feminists, the press and violence against women / Sharon D. Stone -- Accidents, icons, and indexing : the dynamics of news coverage of police use of force / Regina G. Lawrence -- Mass media, crime, law, and justice : an institutional approach / Richard V. Ericson -- Knowledge, domination, and criminal punishment / Joachim J. Savelsberg -- A mass psychology of punishment : crime and the futility of rationally based approaches / Lynn Chancer and Pamela Donovan -- They died with their boots on : the boot camp and the limits of modern penality / Jonathan Simon.

Call Number

JFF 99-3147

ISBN

1855219638

LCCN

97018965

OCLC

36847795

Title

Politics, crime control, and culture / edited by Stuart A. Scheingold.

Imprint

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, Dartmouth, c1997.

Series

The international library of criminology, crimal justice, and penology

International library of criminology, criminal justice & penology.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Scheingold, Stuart A.

Research Call Number

JFF 99-3147