An edition of Making crime pay (1997)

Making crime pay

law and order in contemporary American politics

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An edition of Making crime pay (1997)

Making crime pay

law and order in contemporary American politics

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Most 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?

How 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.

Using 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.

She also highlights the need for a more inclusive debate regarding crime and its solutions.

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English
Pages
158

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Cover of: Making Crime Pay
Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
November 18, 1999, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
Cover of: Making crime pay
Making crime pay: law and order in contemporary American politics
1997, Oxford University Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-153) and index.

Published in
New York
Series
Studies in crime and public policy

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.973
Library of Congress
HV6791 .B42 1997, HV6791.B42 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 158 p. :
Number of pages
158

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL993024M
Internet Archive
volksmhrchenderd00musu
ISBN 10
019511289X
LCCN
96031521
OCLC/WorldCat
35043257
Library Thing
3554101

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Crime and punishment sit center stage in the theater of American political discourse.
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