The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America

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The U.S. crime rate has dropped steadily for more than a decade, yet the rate of incarceration continues to skyrocket. Today, more than 2 million Americans are locked in prisons and jails with devastating consequences for poor families and communities, overcrowded institutions and overburdened taxpayers. How did the U.S. become the world's leader in incarceration? Why have the numbers of women, juveniles, and people of color increased especially rapidly among the imprisoned?

The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America, Second Edition is the first book to make widely accessible the new research on crime as a political and cultural issue. Katherine Beckett and Theodore Sasson provide readers with a robust analysis of the roles of crime, politics, media imagery and citizen activism in the making of criminal justice policy in the age of mass incarceration.

is the first book to make widely accessible the new research on crime as a political and cultural issue. Katherine Beckett and Theodore Sasson provide readers with a robust analysis of the roles of crime, politics, media imagery and citizen activism in the making of criminal justice policy in the age of mass incarceration.
 

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Crime in the United States
13
Murder American Style
25
The Politics of Crime
45
Crime in the Media
73
Crime and Public Opinion
103
Activism and the Politics of Crime
129
Crime and Public Policy
161
Alternatives
189
Notes
205
References
217
Index
243
About the Authors 263
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The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America
Katherine Beckett,Theodore Sasson
Visualização parcial - 2000
The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America
Katherine Beckett,Theodore Sasson
Visualização parcial - 2003

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Katherine Beckett, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Law, Societies and Justice Program at the University of Washington in Seattle. She teaches courses on law, culture, drugs, social control, and terrorism. She is the author of Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics (1997), as well as numerous articles and chapters, including "How Unregulated Is the U.S. Labor Market? The Dynamics of Jobs and Jails, 1980-1995," with Bruce Western (American Journal of Sociology, 1999).

Theodore Sasson, Ph.D., is Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology, Middlebury College, where he teaches courses in criminology, political sociology, social theory, and media studies. He has also taught sociology and criminology at Northeastern University, Boston College, and the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of Crime Talk: How Citizens Construct a Social Problem (1995), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters.

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TítuloThe Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America
AutoresKatherine Beckett, Theodore Sasson
Ediçãoilustrada, reimpressão
EditoraSAGE, 2004
ISBN0761929940, 9780761929949
Num. págs.263 páginas
  
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