A History of Federal Crime Control Initiatives, 1960-1993

by Nancy E. Marion

This history of American crime policy at the federal level compiles and examines for the first time the record of recent presidential administrations in the area of crime control--their agendas and the legislation actually enacted by the Congress. Nancy Marion analyzes the relationship between politics and criminal justice and concludes, after reviewing the administrations of Kennedy through Clinton, that the federal response to crime has been largely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275946495
• ISBN13: 9780275946494
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"