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How criminal justice policies are creating a nation divided by race, class, and morality.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chambliss, William J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2001.
Colección:Crime & society (Boulder, Colo.)
Temas:
Crime > Political aspects > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Political aspects > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Crime > Political aspects
Criminal justice, Administration of > Political aspects
Criminaliteit.
Preventie.
Politieke aspecten.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Tables and Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Misperceptions of Crime
  • The Rising American Prison Population
  • The Growing Prison Economy
  • PART 1: PROPAGANDA
  • 1 The Politics of Fear
  • The President's Crime Commission
  • A Shift in the Focus of Concern
  • Nixon, Congress, and the War on Crime
  • Recent Legislation
  • The Consequences
  • 2 Marketing Crime: The Politics of Crime Statistics
  • Prisons for Profit
  • Crime Statistics
  • The Uniform Crime Reports
  • Counting Crimes
  • Dirty Tricks
  • When Crime Rates Decline
  • Police and Prosecutors' Charges
  • Murder by Strangers
  • Selective Reporting
  • Teenage "Super Predators,"
  • Current Panics over Juvenile Crime
  • School Violence
  • National Criminal Victimization Surveys
  • The Consequences
  • Conclusion
  • PART 2: PRACTICE
  • 3 Finding Crime I: The Ghetto
  • The Dirty Harrys
  • Routine Stops
  • The Consequences
  • The Impact on the African American Community
  • Discussion
  • 4 The War on Drugs: America's Ethnic Cleansing
  • The Impact of Decriminalization
  • The Consequences
  • The Corruption of Due Process
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Finding Crime II: The White Lower Class
  • The Saints
  • The Roughnecks
  • Two Questions
  • The Organization of Policing
  • As Adults
  • Labeling and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
  • PART 3: IMPLICATIONS
  • 6 Trading Textbooks for Prison Cells
  • The Fiscal Costs of Imprisonment
  • Why?
  • 7 Crime Myths and Smoke Screens
  • Police Crimes
  • Police Corruption
  • The Corruption of Due Process of Law
  • The Political Smoke Screen
  • State Organized Crime
  • Corporate Crime
  • Discussion
  • 8 Summary, Conclusions, and Solutions
  • Index.

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