Stuart A. Scheingold: The Politics of Street Crime

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>America's contradictory attitudes toward crime: repellent danger versus media glamorization<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877228257&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="706_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>The Politics of Street Crime</h1> <H2>Criminal Process and Cultural Obsession</H2> <h3>Stuart A. Scheingold</h3> <P>cloth 0-87722-825-6 $64.50, May 91, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Stock Unavailable</FONT> <br>paper 1-56639-024-9 $33.95, Jun 92, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-43990-502-9 $33.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Stock Unavailable</FONT> <BR> 250 pp </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"Scheingold is a master of synthesis and insight, and this book reflects it. He does a marvelous job of digesting major research studies, and reflecting and building on them in the presentation of his own research. The result in this study is a masterful analysis of crime policy. And unlike others who like to theorize, Scheingold�s analysis is firmly rooted in empirical research. In short, his work is a mode/ of scholarship."</I> <br>&#151<b>Malcolm Feeley</b>, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley<I></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>Americans find street crime terrifying and repellent. Yet we vicariously seek it out in virtually all of our media: books, newspapers, television, films, and the theatre. Stuart Scheingold confronts this cultural contradiction and asks why street crime is generally regarded in the trivializing and punitive images of cops and robbers that attribute crime to the willful acts of flawed individuals rather than to the structural shortcomings of a flawed society. In his case study of the police and criminal courts in the community he calls "Cedar City," a medium-sized city in the Western United States, Scheingold examines the effects of this cultural contradiction and these punitive predispositions on politics and policy making. <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><I>"Scheingold is wonderful in piecing together the complex set of variables which affect decision making by cops, prosecutors, and judges. And his synthesis of these variables paints the best picture I know of the complicated ways in which legal, policy, and political variables interact."</I> <br>&#151<b>Milton Heumann</b>, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University <p>Read a review from <a href="http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/scheingo.htm" target="new"><I>Law & Politics Book Review</I></a>, Volume 1.7 (October 1991). <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Tables and Figures <br>Preface <p>1. Street Crime, Criminology, and the State <br><I>Criminological Discourse &#149 The Cultural Resonance of Volitional Criminology &#149 The Political Resonance of Volitional Criminology</I> <p>2. The Politicization of Street Crime <br><I>Politicization &#149 Patterns of Politicization &#149 Public Quiescence &#149 The Law and Order Coalition &#149 Containing Politicization</I> <p>3. Policy, Politics, and the Police <br><I>Patterns of Policy Change &#149 The Resilience of Traditional Policing &#149 Lurching toward Reform &#149 The Politics of Police Reform</I> <p>4. Policy, Politics, and the Criminal Courts <br><I>Patterns of Policy Change &#149 Prosecutors: The Triumph of Reform &#149 Judges: The Politics of Independence</I> <p>5. Politics, Criminology, and Crisis <br><I>Criminology and Policy &#149 The symbolic Politics of Street Crime &#149 Politicization and Policy</I> <p>Notes <br>Bibliography <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/706_au.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Stuart A. Scheingold</b> is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington.</P></td></tr></table> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/political.html" TARGET="_top">Political Science and Public Policy</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/law.html" TARGET="_top">Law and Criminology</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877228257&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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