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Making crime pay : law and order in contemporary American politics.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beckett, Katherine, 1964- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime prevention--United States.
- Crime prevention.
- Law--Political aspects.
- Law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (167 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Making Crime Pay 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 1999.
- Bibliography.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028579-6
- 0-19-771995-3
- 1-280-83443-9
- 9786610834433
- 0-19-802727-3
- 0-19-535047-2
- OCLC:
- 435937765
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