Reiner, Robert
Law and Order: An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control
This book offers an up-to-date analysis of these contemporary trends by providing all honest and concerned citizens with a concise yet comprehensive survey of the sources of current problems and anxieties about crime. It shows that the dominant tough law and order approach to crime is based on fallacies about its nature, sources, and what works in terms of crime control. Instead it argues that the growth of crime has deep-seated causes, so that policing and penal policy at best can only temporarily hold a lid down on offending.
The book is intended to inform public debate about these vital issues through a critical deconstruction of prevailing orthodoxy. With its focus on current policies, problems and debates this book is also an excellent introduction to criminology for the growing numbers of students of the subject at all levels.
- Author(s)
- Reiner, Robert
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2007
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Themes for the 21st Century
- Page amount
- 168 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9780745657295
- Printed ISBN
- 9780745629971