Making Crime Pay - Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics

Beckett immerses herself in the political, social, historical, and discursive context of crime contol in America. The result is an excellent example of how interdisciplinary research can enhance our understanding of complex social phenomena. Informationen zum Autor Katherine Beckett is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington. Klappentext This book shows how politicians constructed crime-related problems in ways which imply the need to enhance punishment and control and, simultaneously, to 'end welfare as we know it'. By analysing the process by which these 'solutions' to the crime problem were legitimated and popularized, Beckett reveals the political nature of the campaign to 'get tough' and highlights the need for a more inclusive debate on crime and its solutions. Zusammenfassung This volume shows how politicians constructed crime-related problems in ways which imply the need to enhance punishment and control and, simultaneously, to end welfare as we know it. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics 2: Setting the Public Agenda 3: Creating the Crime Issue 4: From Crime to Drugs--and Back Again 5: Crime and Drugs in the News 6: Crime and Punishment in American Political Culture 7: Institutionalizing Law and Order 8: Reconceptualizing the Crime Problem

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Beckett, Katherine (Assistant Professor Beckett, Beckett Katherine
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2001
• EAN: 9780195136265
• ISBN: 978-0-19-513626-5
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy; Studies in Crime and Public Po; Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Political science & theory, Social welfare & social services, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Causes and prevention of crime, Social welfare, social policy and social services