Law and Order: An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition
by Robert Reiner
From the rear cover
Law and order has become a key issue throughout the world. Crime stories saturate the mass media and politicians shrilly compete with each other in a race to be the toughest on crime. Prisons are crammed to bursting point, and police powers and resources extended repeatedly. After decades of explosive increase in crime rates, these have plummeted throughout the Western world in the 1990s. Yet fear of crime and violence, and the security industries catering for these anxieties, grow relentlessly.
This book offers an up-to-date analysis of these contemporary trends by providing all honest and concerned citizens with a concise yet comprehensive survey of the sources of current problems and anxieties about crime. It shows that the dominant tough law and order approach to crime is based on fallacies about its nature, sources, and what works in terms of crime control. Instead it argues that the growth of crime has deep-seated causes, so that policing and penal policy at best can only temporarily hold a lid down on offending.
The book is intended to inform public debate about these vital issues through a critical deconstruction of prevailing orthodoxy. With its focus on current policies, problems and debates this book is also an excellent introduction to criminology for the growing numbers of students of the subject at all levels.
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- Title Law and Order: An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control
- Author Robert Reiner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 168
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Date 2007-09-17
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780745629971 / 0745629970
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.45 x 5.18 x 0.77 in (18.92 x 13.16 x 1.96 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Criminals, Criminal justice, Administration of
- Dewey Decimal Code 364
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