Power, Politics And Crime

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Avalon Publishing, Jan 12, 2001 - Social Science - 208 pages
How criminal justice policies are creating a nation divided by race, class, and morality.
 

Contents

Misperceptions of Crime
1
Part 1 Propaganda
11
Part 2 Practice
65
Part 3 Implications
131
6 Trading Textbooks for Prison Cells
133
7 Crime Myths and Smoke Screens
141
8 Summary Conclusions and Solutions
176
Index
181
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William J. Chambliss is professor of sociology at George Washington University. He is past president of the American Society of Criminology and of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Uppsala, Stockholm, and Lusaka (Zambia), and at the London School of Economics. Professor Chambliss has published over fifteen books in the areas of law and criminology.

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