Crime
eBook - ePub

Crime

How to Solve it - And Why So Much of What We're Told is Wrong

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Crime

How to Solve it - And Why So Much of What We're Told is Wrong

About this book

In a whirlwind demolition of dozens of misconceptions about crime, Nick Ross proposes what is arguably the most radical re-think of crime policy since the dawn of policing. Setting conventional thinking on its head, Crime challenges everything we take for granted, showing why the criminal justice system has little effect on crime rates, how policing has been hijacked to serve the needs of lawyers, and how 'facts' about crime are continually manipulated to serve the needs of politicians and the media. Crime is the result of twenty years' experience working with victims and police, and ten years' research to find out what makes crime rates ebb and flow. This is a major work that explodes fallacies and entreats us to be more sceptical. Crime will delight those who come to it with an open mind and infuriate ideologues from the left, right and centre.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. CONTENTS
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  6. PREFACE
  7. 1: INTRODUCTION
  8. 2: CRIME WAVE
  9. 3: VIOLENCE
  10. 4: THE SOCIAL THEORIES OF CRIME 1: POVERTY
  11. 5: THE SOCIAL THEORIES OF CRIME 2: BADNESS
  12. 6: THE SOCIAL THEORIES OF CRIME 3: BASTARDS
  13. 7: CRIME AS NORMAL 1: VIOLENCE
  14. 8: CRIME AS NORMAL 2: THEFT
  15. 9: STATISTICS
  16. 10: MEDIA
  17. 11: FALLACIES
  18. 12: SEX
  19. 13: BLACK AND BLUE: THE RACE ISSUE
  20. 14: BROKEN WINDOWS
  21. 15: CRIMINOLOGY
  22. 16: THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
  23. 17: PUNISHMENT
  24. 18: REHAB
  25. 19: DRUGS
  26. 20: PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE
  27. 21: POLICE
  28. 22: WHERE NEXT?
  29. 23: AFTERTHOUGHTS
  30. APPENDIX
  31. REFERENCES AND NOTES
  32. INDEX
  33. Copyright