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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lisa L. Miller (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 16.00cm Weight: 0.519kg ISBN: 9780195331684ISBN 10: 0195331680 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 28 August 2008 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAbbreviations of Group Names 1: Interests, Venues and Group Participation 2: A Political History of Crime on the Congressional Agenda 3: Contemporary Crime Politics in Congress 4: Interest Groups and Crime Politics at the State Level 5: Crime, Law, and Group Politics in Two Urban Locales 6: Citizenship Through Participation 7: Democratic Accountability and Social Control Appendix 1: Congressional Hearings Data Appendix 2: Pennsylvania Legislative Hearings and Interview Data Appendix 3: Philadelphia and Pittsburg Legislative Hearings and Interview Data Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsMiller artfully tackles a critical question: why have the people most negatively affected by crime and tough penal policies--who tend to live in poor urban neighborhoods--been so marginalized in national and state-level debates over criminal justice? Her keen analysis helps explain why retributive, law-and-order approaches win out time and again over alternative crime-control strategies like economic development, job training, better schools, and more social services for disadvantaged communities. --Marie Gottschalk, author of The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America<br> This is a breakthrough book that for the first time brings structure of American federalism into the center of the analysis of America's punitive turn and the politics of crime control. Miller has produced compelling evidence that our political institutions, rather than our social peculiarities, provide the most significant explanation for our unprecedented degree of punitiveness. --Jonathan Simon, author of Governing through Crime<br> <br> Miller has produced an important, theoretically rich, and arguably counterintuitive work that convincingly argues that local environments are being disserved with respect to crime policy when higher level (i.e., state and federal) governmental entities hold the balance of power....Highly recommended. --CHOICE<br> Miller artfully tackles a critical question: why have the people most negatively affected by crime and tough penal policies--who tend to live in poor urban neighborhoods--been so marginalized in national and state-level debates over criminal justice? Her keen analysis helps explain why retributive, law-and-order approaches win out time and again over alternative crime-control strategies like economic development, job training, better schools, and more social services for disadvantaged communities. --Marie Gottschalk, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, and author of The Prison and the Gallows <br> This is a breakthrough book that for the firsti Author InformationLisa L. Miller is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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