Thinking about Crime
Subtitle: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: January 29, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780195141016
First sentence: In searching for ways to address rising crime rates in the final third of the twentieth century, American policy makers got lost in a forest of good intentions, public anxieties, and political cynicism.