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- catalog abstract ""Why has America experienced an explosion in crime rates since 1960? Why has the crime rate dropped in recent years? Though politicians are always ready both to take the credit for crime reduction and to exploit grisly headlines for short-term political gain, these questions remain among the most important and most difficult to answer in America today." "In Crime & Politics, journalist Ted Gest gives readers the inside story of how crime policy is formulated within the Washington beltway and state capitols, why we've had cycle after cycle of ineffective federal legislation, and where promising reforms might lead us in the future. Gest examines how politicians first made crime a national rather than a local issue, beginning with Lyndon Johnson's crime commission and the landmark anti-crime law of 1968, and continuing right up to such present-day measures as "three strikes" laws, mandatory sentencing, and community policing. Gest exposes a lack of consistent leadership, backroom partisan politics, and the rush to embrace simplistic solutions as the main causes for why Federal and state crime programs have failed to make our streets safe. He also explores how the media aids and abets this trend by featuring lurid crimes that simultaneously frighten the public and encourage candidates to offer another round of quick-fix solutions." "Drawing on extensive research and including interviews with Edwin Meese, Janet Reno, Joseph Biden, Ted Kennedy, and William Webster, Crime & Politics uncovers the real reasons why America continues to struggle with the crime problem and shows how we can do a better job in the future."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Crime and politics".
- catalog contributor b12084919.
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 20th century.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Why has America experienced an explosion in crime rates since 1960? Why has the crime rate dropped in recent years? Though politicians are always ready both to take the credit for crime reduction and to exploit grisly headlines for short-term political gain, these questions remain among the most important and most difficult to answer in America today." "In Crime & Politics, journalist Ted Gest gives readers the inside story of how crime policy is formulated within the Washington beltway and state capitols, why we've had cycle after cycle of ineffective federal legislation, and where promising reforms might lead us in the future. Gest examines how politicians first made crime a national rather than a local issue, beginning with Lyndon Johnson's crime commission and the landmark anti-crime law of 1968, and continuing right up to such present-day measures as "three strikes" laws, mandatory sentencing, and community policing. Gest exposes a lack of consistent leadership, backroom partisan politics, and the rush to embrace simplistic solutions as the main causes for why Federal and state crime programs have failed to make our streets safe. He also explores how the media aids and abets this trend by featuring lurid crimes that simultaneously frighten the public and encourage candidates to offer another round of quick-fix solutions." "Drawing on extensive research and including interviews with Edwin Meese, Janet Reno, Joseph Biden, Ted Kennedy, and William Webster, Crime & Politics uncovers the real reasons why America continues to struggle with the crime problem and shows how we can do a better job in the future."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-289) and index.".
- catalog description "When national politics met crime -- The rise and fall of LEAA -- The "get-tough" 1980s -- Making a federal case of it -- Not getting them young -- Drugs : is the war winnable? -- Guns don't kill? -- A cop on every corner? -- Three strikes : baseball to crime -- Capitol crime extravaganza -- Smarter ways to fight crime.".
- catalog extent "viii, 296 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195103432".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "364.4/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Crime Government policy United States.".
- catalog subject "Crime prevention United States.".
- catalog subject "Criminal justice, Administration of Political aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "HV6789 .G47 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "When national politics met crime -- The rise and fall of LEAA -- The "get-tough" 1980s -- Making a federal case of it -- Not getting them young -- Drugs : is the war winnable? -- Guns don't kill? -- A cop on every corner? -- Three strikes : baseball to crime -- Capitol crime extravaganza -- Smarter ways to fight crime.".
- catalog title "Crime & politics : big government's erratic campaign for law and order / Ted Gest.".
- catalog title "Crime and politics".
- catalog type "text".