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Crime and Criminal Justice
Focuses on relationship between law and communities. This volume examines the ways that the incarceration explosion, the disproportionate number of African-Americans in prisons and racial profiling concentrate disadvantage and make salient political challenges to prevailing understandings of relationship between crime, punishment, and governance.
| Author(s) | By Jr.. Edited by, William T. Lyons. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 702 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 6 Mar 2006 |
| Availability | Available |
Focuses on relationship between law and communities. This volume examines the ways that the incarceration explosion, the disproportionate number of African-Americans in prisons and racial profiling concentrate disadvantage and make salient political challenges to prevailing understandings of relationship between crime, punishment, and governance.
Contents: Series preface; Introduction. Police Powers: Street stops and broken windows: terry, race and disorder in New York City, Jeffrey Fagan and Garth Davies; Theorizing policing: the drama and myth of crime control in the NYPD, Peter K. Manning; The
William T. Lyons, Jr. is Doctor and Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Akron, USA.
