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Tables of Contents for Politics of Injustice
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments for the Second Edition
viii
1. Criminal Justice Expansion
1
12
Explaining the Expansion of the Penal System
4
3
Outline of the Book
7
6
2. Crime in the United States
13
12
Crime in Historical Perspective
13
6
Crime in Comparative Perspective
19
3
Conclusion
22
3
3. Murder, American Style
25
20
Popular Explanations of Violence
26
2
Guns
28
3
Inequality and Homicide
31
3
The Ecology of Urban Violence
34
8
Conclusion
42
3
4. The Politics of Crime
45
28
The Origins of the Discourse of Law and Order
48
2
From the war on Poverty to the War on Crime
50
10
From the War on Crime to the War on Drugs
60
11
Conclusion
71
2
5. Crime in the Media
73
30
Crime in the News
73
8
Crime as Entertainment
81
16
Media Imagery and Public Opinion
97
3
Conclusion
100
3
6. Crime and Public Opinion
103
26
Fear of Crime
104
3
Crime as a Social Problem
107
4
Popular Punitiveness
111
5
Understanding Popular Punitiveness
116
5
Alternatives to Punitiveness
121
4
Minority Dissent
125
3
Conclusion
128
1
7. Activism and the Politics of Crime
129
32
Community-Based Crime Prevention Efforts
130
10
The Victim's Rights Movement
140
9
Adversarial Activism: Human Rights Campaigns Against Police Brutality, Capital Punishment, and the War on Drugs
149
11
Conclusion
160
1
8. Crime and Public Policy
161
28
Drug Policing
162
3
Punitive Sentencing
165
8
Return of Capital Punishment
173
2
Retreat From Juvenile Justice
175
1
Prisoner Warehousing
176
3
The Surveillance Society
179
2
Criminal Justice and Democracy
181
6
Conclusion
187
2
9. Alternatives
189
16
Social Investment
190
2
Harm Reduction
192
4
Alternative Sentencing
196
1
Rehabilitating Reintegration
197
2
Toward Disarmament
199
2
Community Policing
201
3
Conclusion
204
1
Notes
205
12
References
217
26
Index
243
20
About the Authors
263