The War on Crime: Notes from the Irish Front (Undercurrents) - Softcover

O'Donnell, Ian

 
9781859182741: The War on Crime: Notes from the Irish Front (Undercurrents)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1859182747 ISBN 13: 9781859182741
Verlag: CORK UNIV PR, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Public and political interest in issues of crime and punishment in Ireland has grown substantially in recent years. However, the debate tends to be poorly informed and rarely rises above the level of hollow rhetoric. This is an area where important decisions are made in a vacuum. Rhetoric and reaction, rather than reason and principle, are the primary forces shaping criminal justice policy.



Over the past five years the official crime rate has declined sharply. This has been offered as support for the politics of zero tolerance. However there is a range of alternative explanations which are rarely discussed but equally plausible. The reduction in recorded crime has been accompanied by a major redirection of criminal justice policy.



" The War on Crime" explores why a punitive political consensus has emerged at a time when, according to the Garda statistics, society has become much safer. The book provides a radical critique of criminal statistics, locates Irish crime patterns in a European context and suggests a new framework for analyzing trends in crime and its management.

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Ian O'Donnell is Director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust.

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Verlag
CORK UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1859182747
ISBN 13 
9781859182741
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
80
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