Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) Revised Edition

Beckett's research provides one of the best causal explanations for mass incarceration, making the book a must read for every criminologist. I highly recommend her work, Beckett remains a pivotal researcher of social control and racial typification.

This was used as a text for an intro Criminology course I took. Read it cover to cover and found the information contained within disturbing as well as interesting.Walks through how laws are created, how they can evolve from politics and public perception regardless of the actual crime rate and how the media is often complicit with government in manufacturing public concern.

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