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Author: Vincent Sacco Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 9780761927839 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 228
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A critical examination of crime waves aimed at an undergraduate audience. Historical & contemporary examples are drawn primarily from the US, but international examples are threaded throughout for comparison.
Author: Vincent Sacco Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 9780761927839 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
A critical examination of crime waves aimed at an undergraduate audience. Historical & contemporary examples are drawn primarily from the US, but international examples are threaded throughout for comparison.
Author: Kevin N. Wright Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 328
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This is a cogent, although admittedly not unbiased, analysis of misconceptions about crime and the criminal justice system. The main theme of the book is that the `myths' on which efforts to deal with this crime `anxiety' are based stem from two common beliefs--that there is an unprecedented crime wave, and that government should and can do something to recognize the source and purpose they serve, and also to know how and why Americans react to crime. Choice Wright offers a challenging new analysis of the misconceptions surrounding crime and an evaluation of the role of the criminal-justice system and the social context of crime. He notes that a comparatively high rate of violence has been characteristic of this nation from its earliest days and that crime waves and attempts at suppression have occurred at frequent intervals. He examines modern crime statistics and the distortions and confusion accompanying their use and looks at the effects of the pervasive fear of crime, demonstrating how law enforcement agencies and the press benefit from exaggerating its incidence and seriousness. The author makes a convincing case for the view that even with enlightened policies and higher levels of support, no criminal-justice system can, by itself, effect a significant reduction in crime. Since most crime is socially determined, he argues, we need to look at the conditions and attitudes within our society that create an atmosphere congenial to crime.
Author: Severin L. Sorensen Publisher: Sikyur Publications ISBN: 9781936072019 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 212
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Abstract. Economic Misery and Crime Waves: the Second Great Depression and the coming Crime Wave, and what we can do about it. The theory behind this book is that every sharp negative economic shock since 1954 has resulted in a crime wave. Sharp economic contractions such as our current global deep economic recession can create conditions of heightened economic misery (i.e. unemployment, loss of purchasing power through inflation, home equity loss, or asset deflation) which, if left unabated, can create conditions of increased crime opportunity and crime waves, where some people will choose crime as a 'rational' means of support to augment, or replace, their prior legal income. The author posits that the present economic downturn is comparable to the most severe economic shocks from the past 100 years, and this includes events such as the 1929 stock market crash and Great Depression. In the book the author reviews the past to learn clues to the types of events that occurred including past trials of crime waves and the crime control policies designed to arrest crime waves. The author is also aware that our past criminal justice policies are limited, and we must include modern technology and crime problems with no 100-year history to follow, and determine how to combat these new challenges as well. As the coming crime wave is foreseeable, it is imperative that government officials, businesses, communities, and families prepare themselves for this imminent threat. Governments can be proactive and get in front of this crime wave, preparing institutions, revising laws, targeting serious habitual offenders and known crime hotspots, and reducing the number of the most likely new offenders through diversion programs such as employment relocation. Individuals and families can change their ground, secure their places, and repel much of the crime opportunity through situational crime prevention. The book concludes with chapters and appendices that focus on solutions and suggestions on what individuals, families, communities, businesses, and governments can do to shield themselves from the crime wave. Periodic updates on signs of economic misery and crime waves as well as subsections of content from my research are posted on the author's economic misery and crime wave website (www.crimewaves.com) and periodic blogs posted at (http: //d2crimewave.blogspot.com).
Author: James Ellroy Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ISBN: 037570471X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 305
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Los Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy. With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, he returns to his native habitat and portrays it as a smog-shrouded netherworld where"every third person is a peeper, prowler, pederast, or pimp." From the scandal sheets of the 1950s to this morning's police blotter, Ellroy reopens true crimes and restores human dimensions to their victims. Sublimely, he resurrects the rag Hush-Hush magazine. And in a baroquely plotted novella of slaughter and corruption he enlists the forgotten luminaries of a lost Hollywood. Shocking, mesmerizing, and written in prose as wounding as an ice pick, Crime Wave is Ellroy at his best.
Author: Vincent Sacco
Author: Vincent Sacco
Author: St. Louis Public Library
Author: American Historical Association
Author: Lucius H. Cannon
Author: Paul J. Brantingham
Author: Kevin N. Wright
Author: Bryan Burrough
Author: Thomas E. Cronin
Author: Severin L. Sorensen
Author: James Ellroy