Who Are the Criminals? : : The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan / / John Hagan.

How did the United States go from being a country that tries to rehabilitate street criminals and prevent white-collar crime to one that harshly punishes common lawbreakers while at the same time encouraging corporate crime through a massive deregulation of business? Why do street criminals get stif...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 19 line illus. 4 tables. 1 map.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Prologue. Washington Crime Stories
  • Chapter 1. The President's Secret Crime Report
  • Chapter 2. Street Crimes and Suite Misdemeanors
  • Chapter 3. Explaining Crime in the Age of Roosevelt
  • Chapter 4. Explaining Crime in the Age of Reagan
  • Chapter 5. Framing the Fears of the Streets
  • Chapter 6. Framing the Freeing of the Suites
  • Chapter 7. Crime Wars, War Crimes, and State Crimes
  • Epilogue: The Age of Obama?
  • Afterword to the Paperback Edition: Street Crime and Suite Crime in the Era of Obama
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Index