When Crime Waves

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SAGE, May 11, 2005 - Law - 210 pages

When Crime Waves offers an in-depth exploration of a large number of social issues involved in the study of crime waves. Issues such as how and why crime rates change over time, why some types of crime and not others come in waves, and the role played by the mass media, politicians, and interest group leaders in the promotion of crime waves are discussed to help students develop analytical skills and apply them to real-world situations.

offers an in-depth exploration of a large number of social issues involved in the study of crime waves. Issues such as how and why crime rates change over time, why some types of crime and not others come in waves, and the role played by the mass media, politicians, and interest group leaders in the promotion of crime waves are discussed to help students develop analytical skills and apply them to real-world situations.
 

Contents

What Are Crime Waves?
1
16
42
Conclusion
51
10
53
Crime Waves by the Numbers
57
11
62
Emergent Problems
64
Statistics in the Media
72
The Social Implications of Talk
119
What Are We Afraid
128
Does Fear Cause Rising Crime Levels?
135
Conclusion
141
Crime Waves and Public Policy
147
Policy and Problem Image
155
A Skeptics Guide
171
References
181

Mass Media and Crime Waves
79
13
80
Why Do Media Cover Crime as They
92
Thats the Rumor
101
The Rumor Process
108
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109
15
117
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187
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193
22
200
152
201
About the Author 210
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About the author (2005)

Vince Sacco is a professor in the department of sociology at Queen′s University in Kingston, Ontario. His research interests are in criminology and urban sociology. His interests relate to the study of criminology, as well as the study of public perceptions of and reactions to crime. In approaching criminology, his work emphasizes the study of "criminal events" and investigates why some people rather than others are more likely to be victimized by crime; when and where crimes occur; and why the police, lawmakers and members of the general public think about crime as they do. He has published several books including The Criminal Event 2/e Wadsworth, 2002, Advances in Criminological Theory (The Process & Structure of Crime: Criminal Events & Crime Analysis) Transaction Press, 2001, (with R.F. Meier and L.W. Kennedy), Crime Victims in Context, Roxbury Publishing, 1998, (with L.W. Kennedy)..

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