The politics of street crime : criminal process and cultural obsession

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The politics of street crime : criminal process and cultural obsession

Stuart A. Scheingold

Temple University Press, 1991

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-220) and index

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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. Stuart A. Scheingold is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington.

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Tables and Figures Preface 1. Street Crime, Criminology, and the State Criminological Discourse The Cultural Resonance of Volitional Criminology The Political Resonance of Volitional Criminology 2. The Politicization of Street Crime Politicization Patterns of Politicization Public Quiescence The Law and Order Coalition Containing Politicization 3. Policy, Politics, and the Police Patterns of Policy Change The Resilience of Traditional Policing Lurching toward Reform The Politics of Police Reform 4. Policy, Politics, and the Criminal Courts Patterns of Policy Change Prosecutors: The Triumph of Reform Judges: The Politics of Independence 5. Politics, Criminology, and Crisis Criminology and Policy The symbolic Politics of Street Crime Politicization and Policy Notes Bibliography Index

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