Policing Urban Poverty e-bog
436,85 DKK
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Policing Urban Poverty demonstrates that, since the nineteenth century, a core task of the police has been crime control and order maintenance, especially in poor communities. This illuminating book focuses on the policy implications of discourses on poverty and crime in America and Britain. It draws on sociological theory and extensive empirical evidence, which show that in recent history seni...
E-bog
436,85 DKK
Forlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Udgivet
8 december 1999
Genrer
Development studies
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780230509269
Policing Urban Poverty demonstrates that, since the nineteenth century, a core task of the police has been crime control and order maintenance, especially in poor communities. This illuminating book focuses on the policy implications of discourses on poverty and crime in America and Britain. It draws on sociological theory and extensive empirical evidence, which show that in recent history senior police policy-makers have been involved in a struggle with their political masters in determining the most judicious means to tackle urban poverty and crime.