Summary
Contents
Subject index
This collection of original essays is an innovative, effective way to teach crime theory to undergraduates. Each essay brings an important crime theory to life by applying that theory to a current crime event or topic of interest to students. An original introductory essay by Don Gibbons explains the origins of these different explanations for criminal behavior, and how they are similar to and different from one another.
The War on Crime as Hegemonic Strategy: A Neo-Marxian Theory of the New Punitiveness in U.S. Criminal Justice Policy
The War on Crime as Hegemonic Strategy: A Neo-Marxian Theory of the New Punitiveness in U.S. Criminal Justice Policy
Three strikes and you're out. Chain gangs. Boot camps. The recent adoption of these and other anti-crime programs and policies reveals the increasingly punitive nature of public policy in the United States. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, both the federal government and the states adopted a variety of such “get tough” measures and encouraged the police and prosecutors to intensify their efforts to apprehend and punish lawbreakers, particularly drug offenders. As a result, the number of prison and jail inmates grew from 500,000 in 1980 to more than ...
- Loading...
