Who Are the Criminals? : The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan /

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How did the United States go from being a country that tries to rehabilitate street criminals and prevent white-collar crime to one that harshly punishes common lawbreakers while at the same time encouraging corporate crime through a massive deregulation of business? Why do street criminals get stif...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hagan, John, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Crime > Government policy.
Crime.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Justice penale > Administration > États-Unis.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Crime > United States.
Crime > Government policy > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:How did the United States go from being a country that tries to rehabilitate street criminals and prevent white-collar crime to one that harshly punishes common lawbreakers while at the same time encouraging corporate crime through a massive deregulation of business? Why do street criminals get stiff prison sentences, a practice that has led to the disaster of mass incarceration, while white-collar criminals, who arguably harm more people, get slaps on the wrist--if they are prosecuted at all? In Who Are the Criminals?, one of America's leading criminologists provides new answers to th.
Notas:Originally published: 2010. Reprinted with a new afterword.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (328 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781400845071

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