The Politics of Injustice
：Crime and Punishment in America
( 2 )
Publication subTitle ：Crime and Punishment in America
Publication series ：2
Author： Beckett Katherine A.;Sasson Theodore
Publisher： Sage Publications Ltd
Publication year： 2003
E-ISBN: 9781452262918
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780761929949
Subject： D917 犯罪学
Keyword： 犯罪学,社会学
Language： ENG
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Description
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.Chapter