The wire
Subtitle: crime, law, and policy
By: Adam M. Gershowitz
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Durham, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 499
ISBN-13: 9781611631968
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Wire (Television program)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xx) and index.
Table of contents: title: The reality of life in the drug trade; title: The law of the wire(tap); title: The crime of the wire; title: The Fourth Amendment in the real world; title: Interrogation : the law and the reality; title: Compstat : crime fighting breakthrough or invitation to manipulation?; title: Hamsterdam : how should the criminal justice system respond to drugs?; title: Prisoner reentry : the Cutty dilemma; title: Indeterminate sentencing versus sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimums : should Avon Barksdale have been eligible for parole?; title: Race and drugs : mass imprisonment of African Americans; title: Informants and snitching : the Bubbles and Randy problems; title: Distribution of resources in an overburdened system; title: Problems of policing; title: The influence of the media.