Feeding the Fear of Crime: Crime-Related Media and Support for Three Strikes (Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship)
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing; LFB Scholarly Pub.
Published: October 2004
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781593320621
Subjects: Sociology; Public opinion; Criminology; Social Science; United States; Criminal justice, Administration of; Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies; Violence in Society; Crime; Criminal justice, Administrati; Fear of crime
First sentence: Over the last 25 years, public opinion polls have recorded an enormous increase in concern about crime; among Americans, this concern skyrocketed to unprecedented levels in the mid 1990's.