Who are the criminals / The politics of crime policy from the age of roosevelt to the age of reagan With a new afterword by the author John Hagan

By:

Hagan, John

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Eng Publication details: New York: princeton university press, 2010Description: 325 p.: ill; 23 cmISBN:

9780691156156

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

HV 6025 H141w 2010

Contents:

List of Illustrations ix Prologue: Washington Crime Stories 1 Chapter 1: The President's Secret Crime Report 10 Chapter 2: Street Crimes and Suite Misdemeanors 31 Chapter 3: Explaining Crime in the Age of Roosevelt 69 Chapter 4: Explaining Crime in the Age of Reagan 101 Chapter 5: Framing the Fears of the Streets 137 Chapter 6: Framing the Freeing of the Suites 168 Chapter 7: Crime Wars, War Crimes, and State Crimes 213 Epilogue: The Age of Obama? 257 Acknowledgments 269 References 271 Index 293

Summary: Argues that the recent history of American criminal justice can be divided into two eras - the age of Roosevelt (roughly 1933 to 1973) and the age of Reagan (1974 to 2008). In this book, the author states that the time for moving beyond Reagan-era crime policies is long overdue.

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Originally published: 2010. Reprinted with a new afterword

Argues that the recent history of American criminal justice can be divided into two eras - the age of Roosevelt (roughly 1933 to 1973) and the age of Reagan (1974 to 2008). In this book, the author states that the time for moving beyond Reagan-era crime policies is long overdue.

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