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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b10283347.
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1989-".
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-153) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "[ch]. 1. Law and order in contemporary American politics -- [ch]. 2. Setting the public agenda -- [ch]. 3. Creating the crime issue -- [ch]. 4. From crime to drugs, and back again -- [ch]. 5. Crime and drugs in the news -- [ch]. 6. Crime and punishment in American polical culture -- [ch]. 7. Institutionalizing law and order -- [ch]. 8. Reconceptualizing the crime problem.".
- catalog extent "vi, 158 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Making crime pay.".
- catalog identifier "019511289X (acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "0195136268 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Making crime pay.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in crime and public policy".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Making crime pay.".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1989-".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "364.973 20".
- catalog subject "Crime Political aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "Crime prevention Political aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "Criminal justice, Administration of Political aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "Drug control Political aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "HV6791 .B42 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "[ch]. 1. Law and order in contemporary American politics -- [ch]. 2. Setting the public agenda -- [ch]. 3. Creating the crime issue -- [ch]. 4. From crime to drugs, and back again -- [ch]. 5. Crime and drugs in the news -- [ch]. 6. Crime and punishment in American polical culture -- [ch]. 7. Institutionalizing law and order -- [ch]. 8. Reconceptualizing the crime problem.".
- catalog title "Making crime pay : law and order in contemporary American politics / Katherine Beckett.".
- catalog type "text".