The Politics of Street Crime: Criminal Process and Cultural Obsession

by Stuart A. Scheingold

Book Overview

Americans find street crime terrifying and repellent. Yet we vicariously seek it out in virtually all of our media: books, newspapers, television, films, and the theatre. Stuart Scheingold confronts this cultural contradiction and asks why street crime is generally regarded in the trivializing and punitive images of cops and robbers that attribute crime to the willful acts of flawed individuals rather than to the structural shortcomings of a flawed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877228256
• ISBN13: 9780877228257
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"