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The new social contract : America's journey from welfare state to police state
- Title
- The new social contract : America's journey from welfare state to police state / Joseph Dillon Davey.
- Author
- Davey, Joseph Dillon.
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1995.
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Details
- Description
- xxiii, 182 p.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--City University of New York.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-174) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. Poverty. Ch. 1. Urban Riots and the Beginning of the New Social Contract. Ch. 2. The Restoration of Order and the Reduction in Social Provision: Poverty in the 1990s. Ch. 3. The New Homelessness: The Reagan Legacy -- Pt. II. Crime. Ch. 4. The Explosion of the Criminal Justice System: The Muscle of the New Social Contract. Ch. 5. The FBI's Dirty Little Secret: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. Ch. 6. The Media and Public Hysteria about Crime -- Pt. III. Legal Change. Ch. 7. Assault on the Constitution: Penal Code Reform. Ch. 8. Assault on the Constitution: The Death of the Fourth Amendment. Ch. 9. The End of the War on Drugs -- Pt. IV. Conclusion. Ch. 10. The New Social Contract.
- Call Number
- JFE 95-18816
- ISBN
- 0275951235 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- 9780275951238 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- 0275952398 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 9780275952396 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 95003326
- OCLC
- 31971114
- Author
- Davey, Joseph Dillon.
- Title
- The new social contract : America's journey from welfare state to police state / Joseph Dillon Davey.
- Imprint
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1995.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-174) and index.
- Indexed Term
- Social problemsUnited States
- Research Call Number
- JFE 95-18816