Americans View Crime and Justice
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Americans View Crime and Justice

A National Public Opinion Survey

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Americans View Crime and Justice

A National Public Opinion Survey

About this book

This book should be made a part of any college level library that features holdings in social sciences. . . . Americans View Crime and Justice presents a national public opinion survey and its results on the issues. These edited results of a survey conducted in 1995 examine such issues as gun control, capital punishment, and juvenile crime, offering public opinion along with the analyses of a panel of criminologists. --The Midwest Book Review Readable and carefully edited, Americans View Crime and Justice reports and analyzes results from the recent National Crime and Justice Survey (NCJS), the richest and most wide-ranging investigation of public opinion on crime and justice issues in more than a decade. Conducted in June 1995, the survey features responses from 1,000 adults in the United States on now-volatile issues such as fear of crime, gun control, capital punishment, juvenile crime, and additional related topics of national concern. A distinguished panel of criminologists analyzes the collected data in this volume to present a comprehensive report on the development and current status of public opinion on these timely issues. Divided into three sectionsā€”context and framework; findings; and opinion, policy, and scienceā€”this authoritative volume also analyzes the implications of the survey data. Providing interesting insights and timely quantification of Americans? view of crime and justice, this volume offers a unique view of public opinion particularly important to the work of researchers, law enforcement personnel, policy makers, public officials, and students of criminology and criminal justice, law, and political science.

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Yes, you can access Americans View Crime and Justice by Timothy J. Flanagan,Dennis R. Longmire, Timothy J. Flanagan, Dennis R. Longmire in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Criminology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter 1 - Public Opinion on Crime and Justice: History, Development, and Trends
  5. Chapter 2 - America's Fear of Crime
  6. Chapter 3 - Support and Confidence: Public Attitudes Toward the Police
  7. Chapter 4 - Bringing the Offender to Heel: Views of the Criminal Courts
  8. Chapter 5 - Just and Painful: Attitudes Toward Sentencing Criminals
  9. Chapter 6 - Reform or Punish: Americans' Views of the Correctional System
  10. Chapter 7 - Americans' Attitudes about the Ultimate Weapon: Capital Punishment
  11. Chapter 8 - Guns and Gun Control
  12. Chapter 9 - The Modern Plague: Controlling Substance Abuse
  13. Chapter 10 - The Growing Threat: Gangs and Juvenile Offenders
  14. Chapter 11 - Public Opinion and Public Policy in Criminal Justice
  15. Chapter 12 - The Art and Science of Survey Research
  16. Chapter 13 - The National Opinion Survey on Crime and Justiceā€”1995: Development and Methods
  17. Appendix: Survey Questionnaire: National Opinion Survey on Crime and Justiceā€”1995
  18. References
  19. About the Editors
  20. About the Contributors