A pattern of violence: how the law classifies crimes and what it means for justice
Violence as a legal problem -- Violent crime and violent criminals -- Police violence -- Rape and domestic assault -- Violence and youth -- Prison violence -- Speech and guns.
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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2021
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| In: | Jahr: 2021 |
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| Bestand in Tübingen: | In Tübingen vorhanden. UB: KB 21 A 1337 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Violence as a legal problem -- Violent crime and violent criminals -- Police violence -- Rape and domestic assault -- Violence and youth -- Prison violence -- Speech and guns. "Before the 1960s, the distinction between violent and nonviolent crime played hardly any role in the law. Since then, the number of crimes deemed violent has skyrocketed. David Alan Sklansky shows how shifting and inconsistent legal definitions of violence have fueled mass incarceration, protected abusive police, and undermined criminal justice"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | 316 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780674248908 |