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Politics, crime control, and culture / edited by Stuart A. Scheingold.
- Title
- Politics, crime control, and culture / edited by Stuart A. Scheingold.
- Publication
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, Dartmouth, c1997.
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- Additional Authors
- Scheingold, Stuart A.
- Description
- xxv, 553 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- The international library of criminology, criminal justice, and penology
- Uniform Title
- International library of criminology, criminal justice & penology.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. I. Politics, policy and punishment -- Racial politics, racial disparities, and the war on crime / Michael Tonry -- Giving crime prevention top priority / Herman Schwendinger, 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, Edmund F. McGarrell -- Sexual violence, victim advocacy, and republican criminology: Washington State's Community Protection Act / Stuart A. Scheingold, Toska Olson, Jana Pershing.
- Policing appearances / Jean-Paul Brodeur -- Social crime prevention à la Thatcher / Michael King.
- pt. 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, Robert J. Boeckmann -- Hardening of the attitudes: Americans' views on the death penalty / Phoebe C. Ellsworth, Samuel R. Gross -- A new look at public opinion on capital punishment: what citizens and legislators prefer / William J. Bowers, Margaret Vandiver, 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, William A. Halteman.
- African American conspiracy theories and the social construction of crime / Theodore Sasson.
- pt. 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, Pamela Donovan.
- They died with their boots on: the boot camp and the limits of modern penality / Jonathan Simon.
- ISBN
- 1855219638
- LCCN
- ^^^97018965^
- OCLC
- 36847795
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library