Who Are the Criminals? : The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan


John. Hagan
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Princeton : : Princeton University Press, , 2010.
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1 online resource (314 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Prologue: Washington Crime Stories; Chapter 1 The President's Secret Crime Report; Chapter 2 Street Crimes and Suite Misdemeanors; Chapter 3 Explaining Crime in the Age of Roosevelt; Chapter 4 Explaining Crime in the Age of Reagan; Chapter 5 Framing the Fears of the Streets; Chapter 6 Framing the Freeing of the Suites; Chapter 7 Crime Wars, War Crimes, and State Crimes; Epilogue: The Age of Obama?; Acknowledgments; References; Index. - How did the United States go from being a country that tries to rehabilitate street criminals and prevent white-collar crime to one that harshly punishes common lawbreakers while at the same time encouraging corporate crime through a massive deregulation of business? Why do street criminals get stiff prison sentences, a practice that has led to the disaster of mass incarceration, while white-collar criminals, who arguably harm more people, get slaps on the wrist--if they are prosecuted at all? In Who Are the Criminals?, one of America's leading criminologists provides new answers to
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