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The New Politics of Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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The New Politics of Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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This book provides an overview of recent government initiatives in
the field of crime and punishment, reviewing both the policies
themselves, the perceived problems and issues they seek to address,
and the broader social and political context in which this is
taking place. The underlying theme of the book is that a
qualitative change has taken place in the politics of crime control
in the UK since the early 1990s. Although crime has stabilized,
imprisonment rates continue to climb, there is a new mood of
punitiveness, and crime has become a central policy issue for the
government, no longer just a technical matter of law enforcement.
At the same time the politics of crime control have taken on a
pronounced gender, race and age preoccupation. There are many
parallels with the changing nature of crime control in the USA, and
the contributors draw on international comparisons in their
respective chapters. The book brings together a team of
contributors based at Middlesex University, one o
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