When Crime Waves
- Vincent F Sacco - Queen's University, Canada
Criminology & Criminal Justice (General) | Criminology (General) | Social Psychology (General)
When Crime Waves intends to focus on the crime wave as a way of organizing and critically investigating several such issues including: - how and why crime rates change over time - why some types of crime and not others come in waves - how the ways in which we count crime document (and sometimes create) crime waves - the role played by the mass media, politicians and interest group leaders in the promotion of crime waves
Key Features:
The only book to critically examine the phenomenon of crime waves in an engaging fashion for undergraduate students.
Historical and contemporary examples drawn primarily from the U.S. International examples will be threaded thoughout the book for a comparative perspective.
Examines the role media and politicians play in creating the perception that a crime wave has occurred.
"Vincent Sacco has written and intriguing little book on the complex phenomenon called "crime waves." Relying primarily on case studies and historical accounts, he paints a fascinating picture of crime waves as they are constructed and perceived by society. The ultimate value of Sacco's book may be that it helps one to appreciate the futility of simple, quick-fix solutions to complex, of even worse, illusory problems. This is a very readable and engaging work aimed at undergraduate students in the social sciences."
This text will be useful to students in understanding the context of what they do, particuarly those working in the field of policing/ criminal justice.
