Author: Katherine Beckett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195350472
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 167
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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. According to conventional wisdom, the worsening of the crime and drug problems has led the public to become more punitive, and "tough" anti-crime policies are politicians' collective response to this popular sentiment. Katherine Beckett challenges this interpretation, arguing instead that the origins of the punitive shift in crime control policy lie in the political rather than the penal realm--particularly in the tumultuous period of the 1960s.
Author: Harold S. Long
Publisher: Loompanics Unltd
ISBN: 9780915179831
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 81
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Professional methods and techniques for information and intelligence gathering... now revealed for you to use. Now you can find out anything you want to know about anyone you want to know about! Satisfy your need to know with these revealing professional manuals on investigation, crime and police sciences. What does it take to succeed at a criminal activity? What does it take to make crime pay? Written by a professional criminal, this book delves deeply into the realities of the criminal justice system and offers many hard-won suggestions for successfully evading the system. It is packed with information not available anywhere else (except, maybe, in jail). It explains what makes some criminals successful while others get caught. It also discusses how to deal with police, courts, and the criminal justice system to minimize apprehension and conviction. Everything you read here will be fact recounted in part from personal experiences, and in part from the experiences of inmates across the country.
Author: Katherine Beckett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195350470
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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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. According to conventional wisdom, the worsening of the crime and drug problems has led the public to become more punitive, and "tough" anti-crime policies are politicians' collective response to this popular sentiment. Katherine Beckett challenges this interpretation, arguing instead that the origins of the punitive shift in crime control policy lie in the political rather than the penal realm--particularly in the tumultuous period of the 1960s.
Author: Andrea Campbell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621531988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Making Crime Pay is an invaluable reference to criminal law, evidence, and procedure and the potential it holds for breathtaking plots and dramatic storytelling. Readers will learn in detail how criminal law has evolved historically, discover the differences between crimes and how they are judged in the eyes of the law, and understand law's mechanisms and loopholes from the first thought of a crime to the offender's arrest and trial.
Author: David Young
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Category : Forensic accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 445
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Author: Stephanie Kay Bendel
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780135459218
Category : Creative writing
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Author: Peter Cheyney
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Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Author: Ralph D. Thomas
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ISBN: 9780918487704
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Languages : en
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Author: Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
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ISBN: 9781889277158
Category : Forensic accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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