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The Politics of Street Crime: Criminal Process and Cultural Obsession

By Stuart Scheingold

Book information

Publisher
Temple University Press
Year
1991
ISBN
0877228256, 9780877228257
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
36 MB (37959663 bytes)
Pages
250\244
Time added
2015-02-01 18:21:27

Description

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.

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