MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 03275fam a2200445 a 4500
001 2047629
005 20220615192703.0
008 960626s1997 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 96031521
020 $a019511289X
035 $a(OCoLC)35043257
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm35043257
035 $9AMS8765CU
035 $a(NNC)2047629
035 $a2047629
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$dNNC$dOrLoB-B
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aHV6791$b.B42 1997
082 00 $a364.973$220
100 1 $aBeckett, Katherine,$d1964-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96063563
245 10 $aMaking crime pay :$blaw and order in contemporary American politics /$cKatherine Beckett.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1997.
263 $a9704
300 $avi, 158 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aStudies in crime and public policy
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 137-153) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tLaw and Order in Contemporary American Politics --$g2.$tSetting the Public Agenda --$g3.$tCreating the Crime Issue --$g4.$tFrom Crime to Drugs - and Back Again --$g5.$tCrime and Drugs in the News --$g6.$tCrime and Punishment in American Political Culture --$g7.$tInstitutionalizing Law and Order --$g8.$tReconceptualizing the Crime Problem.
520 $aMost Americans are not aware that the US prison population has tripled over the past two decades, nor that the US has the highest rate of incarceration in the industrialized world. Despite these facts, politicians from across the ideological spectrum continue to campaign on "law and order" platforms and to propose "three strikes" - and even "two strikes" - sentencing laws. Why is this the case?
520 8 $aHow have crime, drugs, and delinquency come to be such salient political issues, and why have enhanced punishment and social control been defined as the most appropriate responses to these complex social problems? Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics provides original, fascinating, and persuasive answers to these questions.
520 8 $aUsing a variety of data sources and methods, Beckett shows that politicians have played a leading role in redefining social problems as security issues and, more generally, in attempting to replace social welfare with social control as the principle of state policy. By analyzing the process by which these "solutions" to crime-related problems were (and still are) legitimized and popularized, Beckett reveals the political origins and consequences of this "get-tough" crusade.
520 8 $aShe also highlights the need for a more inclusive debate regarding crime and its solutions.
650 0 $aCrime$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aCriminal justice, Administration of$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aCrime prevention$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aDrug control$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1989-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001744
830 0 $aStudies in crime and public policy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93116776
852 00 $bleh$hHV6791$i.B42 1997