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Crime & politics : big government's erratic campaign for law and order / Ted Gest.

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Main Author: Gest, Ted
Other title:Crime and politics.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Crime > Government policy > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Political aspects > United States.
Crime prevention > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 20th century.
Crime > Government policy.
Crime prevention.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Political aspects.
Politics and government
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • When national politics met crime
  • The rise and fall of LEAA
  • The "get-tough" 1980s
  • Making a federal case of it
  • Not getting them young
  • Drugs : is the war winnable?
  • Guns don't kill?
  • A cop on every corner?
  • Three strikes : baseball to crime
  • Capitol crime extravaganza
  • Smarter ways to fight crime.

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