Books written by Katherine Beckett
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Banished: The New Social Control In Urban America
Articulated initiallyby James Q.Wilson andGeorge Kelling in a short Atlantic Monthly article in 1982, the theory suggests a connection between, on one hand, streetlevel behaviorsengaged in by homeless people andother ostensibly ...
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Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics
... U.S. are especially vulnerable to (apparent) shifts in public attitudes (Savelsberg, “Knowledge, Domination, and Criminal Punishment"). Chapter 7 1. Donziger, The Real War on Crime, p. 15; see also Irwin and Austin, It's About Time.
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The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America
... 186-187 California Proposition 215 , 157 challenging federal government 156-160 opposition , 155-156 Anti - welfare advocates , 47 Applebome , P. , 179 Applegate , B. K. , 196 Armstrong , G. B. , 98 Arrests : by offense , 6 Ashcroft ...
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Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics
See Reeves and Campbell , Cracked Coverage . 34. Reinarman and Levine , " Crack in Context . " 35. On this , see Beckett and Sasson , " The Media and the Construction of the Drug Crisis in America " ; and Beckett , " Managing Motherhood ...
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Banished: The New Social Control In Urban America
Banished is the first exploration of these new tactics that dramatically enhance the power of the police to monitor and arrest thousands of city dwellers.
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Ending Mass Incarceration: Why It Persists and How to Achieve Meaningful Reform
Washington, DC: Center for American Progress, 2017. ... Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 623, no. ... In Rethinking Drug Courts: International Experiences of a US Policy Export, edited by John Collins, ...
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Banished: The New Social Control In Urban America
Banished is an in-depth examination of new and largely-ignored policing tactics that enforce zones of exclusion in many American cities.
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The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America
Features of this text: Critical Approach. Debunks myths about crime in the U.S., challenges many current anticrime policies that became harsher in the 1990s, and illuminates the political implications of crime and punishment. Contemporary.
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Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics
Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics provides original, fascinating, and persuasive answers to these questions.