Law and Order: An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and ControlISBN: 978-0-7456-2996-4
Hardcover
168 pages
September 2007, Polity
 Other Available Formats: Paperback
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- a new book in the Themes for the 21st Century series by Robert
Reiner, one of the world’s leading authorities on issues of
law and order
- offers up to date analysis of contemporary trends in crime and
violence and the attempts to control these in the Western
world
- written with the honest and concerned citizen in mind Reiner
provides a concise yet comprehensive survey of the sources of
current problems and anxieties about crime
- Puts forward a provocative argument that the growth of crime
has deep-seated causes, so that policing and penal policy are only
a temporary means of control
- an excellent introduction to criminology for the growing numbers of students of the subject at all levels
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