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Article: Crime and Politics: Big Government's Erratic Campaign for Law and Order. (Bookshelf).(Book Review)
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- Corrections Today
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- December 1, 2002
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Crime and Politics: Big Government's Erratic Campaign for Law and Order, by Ted Gest, Oxford University Press, 2001, 276 pp.
It is difficult to review a chronicle of federal anti-crime policies without being influenced by the recent events of 2001, and a reading of Ted Gest's Crime and Politics: Big Government's Erratic Campaign for Law and Order is no exception. The year 2001 proved to be pivotal in the war on crime -- albeit terrorism -- while Gest's focus is on "street crime." However, I found myself comparing Congress' "latest leap on the 'crime du jour,'" with the government's 40-year war on murder and drugs. The author's premise -- that winning the war on ...