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Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) (edit title/settings)

by Katherine Beckett (Author) (edit contributors)

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Most Americans are not aware that the US prison population has tripled over the past two decades, nor that the US has the highest rate of incarceration in the industrialized world. Despite these facts, politicians from across the ideological spectrum continue to campaign on "law and order"... read more

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Crime and punishment sit center stage in the theater of American political discourse.

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  1. Katherine Beckett (Author)

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