Who Are the Criminals?: The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan

by John Hagan

Book Overview

How Americans came to fear street crime too much--and corporate crime too little

How did the United States go from being a country that tries to rehabilitate street criminals and prevent white-collar crime to one that harshly punishes common lawbreakers while at the same time encouraging corporate crime through a massive deregulation of business? Why do street criminals get stiff prison sentences, a practice that has led to the disaster...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691156158
• ISBN13: 9780691156156
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"