TY - BOOK AU - Gest,Ted TI - Crime & politics: big government's erratic campaign for law and order SN - 9780199833887 (ebook) : AV - HV6789 U1 - 364.4'0973 22 PY - 2001/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Crime KW - Government policy KW - United States KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Political aspects KW - Crime prevention KW - Politics and government KW - 20th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This text is a story of personal relations and ideological biases that played major roles in how important policies were decided. It tells how the inside story of how crime policy is formulated inside the Washington beltway and state capitals UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/0195103432.001.0001 ER -