TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Lisa Lynn
TI  - The myth of mob rule: violent crime and democratic politics 
SN  - 9780190228729 (ebook) :
AV  - HV6187 .M55 2016
U1  - 364.4 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Crime
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Violent crimes
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Crime prevention
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Political sociology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Drawing on a comparative analysis of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, this book explores when and with what consequences crime becomes a politically salient issue. Reversing much of the conventional wisdom, the analysis finds that serious violence and public and political attention to it are highly correlated and that the United States has high levels of both crime and punishment, in part, because it suffers from a democratic deficit, rather than a surplus, in the production of fundamental collective goods, including risk of violence
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190228705.001.0001
ER  -