The New Social Contract - America's Journey from Welfare State to Police State

According to the Justice Department's National Crime Survey, the crime rate in the United States is lower today than it was when Nixon was in the White House. In spite of this, political leaders demand nationwide prison construction as a response to the war on drugs and to accommodate the results of the new three strikes law. At the same time, the gap between rich and poor is wider than ever and the needs of the non-disruptive poor are being ignored by the economic and political elites to the point of unprecedented homelessness. The author predicts this widening gap will prompt the return of 1960s-style civil turmoil which will lead to the end of the war on drugs and the emptying of hundreds of thousands of cells so the protesting poor can be plausibly threatened with incarceration.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Poverty
Urban Riots and the Beginning of the New Social Contract
The Restoration of Order and the Reduction in Social Provision: Poverty in the 1990s
The New Homelessness: The Reagan Legacy
Crime
The Explosion of the Criminal Justice System: The Muscle of the New Social Contract
The F.B.I.'s "Dirty Little Secret": Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
The Media and Public Hysteria About Crime
Legal Change
Assault on the Constitution: Penal Code Reforms
Assault on the Constitution: The Death of the Fourth Amendment
The End of the War on Drugs
Conclusion
The New Social Contract
Notes
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Joseph Dillon Davey

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Joseph D. Davey, Davey Joseph Dillon
• Verlag: Bloomsbury
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.08.1995
• EAN: 9780275952396
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95239-6
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; USA, American History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Social issues & processes, United States of America, USA, Police & security services, Social and ethical issues, Central / national / federal government policies, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Police and security services, Causes and prevention of crime, Central government policies