The politics of crime control
Subtitle: essays in honour of David Downes
By: edited by Tim Newburn and Paul Rock.
Contributors: Newburn, Tim.; Rock, Paul Elliott.; Downes, David M.
Series: Clarendon studies in criminology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780199208401
Subjects: Criminology.; Criminology -- Great Britain.
Description: viii, 333 p. : 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: David Downes : an introduction / Tim Newburn and Paul Rock; title: Beyond risk : a lament for social democratic criminology / Robert Reiner; title: Dangerous people : beginnings of a New Labour proposal / Andrew Rutherford; title: With respect to order, the rules of the game have changed : New Labour's dominance of the 'law and order' agenda / Rod Morgan; title: East Ending : dissociation, de-industrialization and David Downes / Dick Hobbs; title: Opportunity makes the thief-taker : the influence of economic analysis on crime control / Lucia Zedner; title: Contrasts and concepts : considering the development of comparative criminology / Frances Heidensohn; title: Historicizing contrasts in tolerance / Nicola Lacey; title: Contrasts in intolerance : cultures of control in the United States and Britain / Tim Newburn; title: Governance and restorative justice in Cali, Colombia / Declan Roche; title: Neither honesty nor hypocrisy : the legal reconstruction of torture / Stanly Cohen.