Making Crime Pay
Subtitle: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics
Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy; Studies in crime and public policy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780195350470
Subjects: Crime
Description: 1. Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics. 2. Setting the Public Agenda. 3. Creating the Crime Issue. 4. From Crime to Drugs--and Back Again. 5. Crime and Drugs in the News. 6. Crime and Punishment in American Political Culture. 7. Institutionalizing Law and Order. 8. Reconceptualizing the Crime Problem.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Contents; 1 Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics; 2 Setting the Public Agenda; 3 Creating the Crime Issue; 4 From Crime to Drugs; title: and Back Again; 5 Crime and Drugs in the News; 6 Crime and Punishment in American Political Culture; 7 Institutionalizing Law and Order; 8 Reconceptualizing the Crime Problem; Notes; Bibliography; Index.