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Law and Order: An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2997-1
Paperback
168 pages
September 2007, Polity
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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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