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- Title
PUBLIC SENTIMENT, POLITICAL ACTION, AND GOVERNMENTAL CRIME POLICY—ON THE ORIGINS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF MIXED FEELINGS.
- Authors
ZIMRING, FRANKLIN E.
- Abstract
This essay comments on an article published within the issue which suggests that public attitudes toward crime and criminals are more mixed than current criminological fashion tends to acknowledge. The article argues that ideological space and politics will exist to fight the policies that have dominated the governance of U.S. crime throughout the past generation. The comments are organized around unpacking each assumption and discussing the evidence now available to explain the causes of the unique severity of penal policy in most U.S. states.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SOCIAL attitudes; CRIME; CRIMINALS; CRIMINAL law
- Publication
Criminology & Public Policy, 2008, Vol 7, Issue 3, p467
- ISSN
1538-6473
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1111/j.1745-9133.2008.00521.x