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Crime: How to Solve It and Why So Much of What We're Told Is Wrong "Ross, Nick"

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: United Kingdom Biteback 23/05/2013Description: 384 HardbackISBN:
  • 9781849544993
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364 NIC
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Crime & criminology
Summary: "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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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

'Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime' said Tony Blair before taking office. Over the years, the slogans and soundbites have come at us from all angles and from all comers, yet those who actually make policy seem powerless to control crime. The riots of August 2011, though isolated, stand out as starkly emblematic of a disconnect between policing and criminality in the UK today. Former Crimewatch host Nick Ross suggests there is a solution, but one that demands a radical rethink of how we view crime and the circumstances behind it.

Crime & criminology

"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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