Crime, risk and justice : the politics of crime control in liberal democracy / edited by Kevin Stenson and Robert R Sullivan.

Cullompton, Devon. : Willan Publishing, 2001.

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Crime prevention.

Crime -- Political aspects.

Criminals.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Police.

Risk -- Sociological aspects.

Punishment.

Criminal investigation in mass media.

Radio and television.

1. The New politics of crime control / Kevin Stenson

2. The Schizophenic state: neo-liberal criminal justice / Robert R Sullivan

Part Two: Community initiatives and risk

3. Risk and community practice / Todd Clear and Eric Cadora

4. Crime control and liberal government: the 'third way' and the return to the local / Kevin Stenson and Adam Edwards

Part Three: Policing and the risk society

5. Policing crime risks in the neo-liberal era / Pat O'Malley

6. Lost connections and new directions: neo-liberalism, new public managerialism, and the 'modernization' of the British police / Eugene McLaughlin and Karim Murji

Part Four: Criminal justice and risk

7. Entitlements to cruelty: neo-liberalism and the punitive mentality in the United States / Jonathan Simon

8. Punishment, rights and difference: defending justice in the risk society / Barbara Hudson

Part Five: The Media, crime and risk

9. Casino culture: media, and crime in a winner-loser society / Robert Reiner, Sonia Livingstone and Jessica Allen

10. Bringin' it all back home: populism, media coverage and the dynamics of locality and globality in the politics of crime control / Richard Sparks

11. American television, crime and the risk society / Philip Green.

Includes index.

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