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9780877228257

The Politics of Street Crime

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  • ISBN13:

    9780877228257

  • ISBN10:

    0877228256

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2010-06-17
  • Publisher: Temple University Press

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Summary

Americans find street crime terrifying and repellent. Yet we vicariously seek it out in virtually all of our media: books, newspapers, television, films, and the theatre. Stuart Scheingold confronts this cultural contradiction and asks why street crime is generally regarded in the trivializing and punitive images of cops and robbers that attribute crime to the willful acts of flawed individuals rather than to the structural shortcomings of a flawed society. In his case study of the police and criminal courts in the community he calls "Cedar City," a medium-sized city in the Western United States, Scheingold examines the effects of this cultural contradiction and these punitive predispositions on politics and policy making. Author note: Stuart A. Scheingold is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures
Preface
Street Crime, Criminology, and the StateCriminological Discourse
The Cultural Resonance of Volitional Criminology
The Political Resonance of Volitional Criminology
The Politicization of Street CrimePoliticization
Patterns of Politicization
Public Quiescence
The Law and Order Coalition
Containing Politicization
Policy, Politics, and the PolicePatterns of Policy Change
The Resilience of Traditional Policing
Lurching toward Reform
The Politics of Police Reform
Policy, Politics, and the Criminal CourtsPatterns of Policy Change
Prosecutors: The Triumph of Reform
Judges: The Politics of Independence
Politics, Criminology, and CrisisCriminology and Policy
The symbolic Politics of Street Crime
Politicization and Policy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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