Feeding the fear of crime crime-related media and support for three strikes

Feeding the fear of crime crime-related media and support for three strikes

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Callanan, Valerie J., 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Published: New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2005.
Subjects:
Fear of crime > United States.
Crime > United States > Public opinion.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States > Public opinion.
Mass media and crime > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Understanding American punitive attitudes
  • Public opinion of criminal sentencing
  • Media and public opinion of crime
  • Modeling support for three strikes
  • Measuring punitiveness and related factors
  • Explaining punitiveness
  • Summing up.