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The Rise and Fall of a Violent Crime Wave: Crack Cocaine and the Construction of a Social Crime Problem
Henry Brownstein
(Paperback)
1996, 112 pages
ISBN: 0-911577-36-X
$25.00

This book tells the story of how government policy-makers, law enforcement officials, and the news media effectively used modest shifts in the official rate of violent crime to construct a crisis of crime and violence. Contents: 1. The Wave of Violent Crime. 2. The Measurement of Violent Crime. Official Crime Statistics 3. Crack Cocaine and Violent Crime. 4. Making Policy, Making Justice, Making Crime.

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