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From the perspective of mainstream criminology, the essays collected in this volume may seem to be something of a collateral enterprise - or they may be seen as extending the reach of criminology to others areas of importance. Rather than focusing directly on crime and criminals - these essays seek to identify the forces that determine how, why and with what consequences societies choose to deal with crime and criminals as they do. The volume is divided into three sections, each of which explores matters intrinsic to an understanding of how, why, and with what consequences the politics of crime and punishment proceeds as it does.

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• Part 1 Politics, Policy and Punishment
• Racial politics, racial disparities and the war on crime
• Giving crime prevention top priority
• Gazette of morality and social whip: punishment hegemony and the case of the USA, 1970-1992
• The politics of law and order: case study evidence for a conflict model of the criminal law formation process
• Sexual violence, victim advocacy and republican criminology: Washington State's Community Protection Act
• Policing appearances
• Social crime and prevention a la Thatcher
• Part 2 Public Opinion and Punishment: 3 strikes and you are out, but why?: the psychology of public support for punishing rule breakers
• Hardening of the attitudes: American's view of the death penalty
• A new look at public opinion on capital punishment: what citizens and legislators prefer
• The modern prison as total institution: public perception versus objective reality
• Punitive attitudes toward criminals: racial consensus or racial conflict
• African American conspiracy theories and the social construction of crime
• Part 3 The Cultural Production of Crime and Punishment
• Mass mediated themes of crime and justice
• Getting the message out: feminists, the Press and violence against women
• Accidents, icons and indexing: the dynamics of news coverage of police use of force
• Mass media, crime, law and justice
• Knowledge, domination and criminal punishment
• A mass psychology of punishment: crime and the futility of rationally based approaches
• They died with their boots on: the Boot Camp and the limits of modern penalty
• Name index