TY - BOOK AU - Kappeler,Victor E. AU - Blumberg,Mark AU - Potter,Gary W. TI - The mythology of crime and criminal justice SN - 9781577660781 U1 - 364.973 22 PY - 2000/// CY - Prospect Heights, Ill. PB - Waveland Press KW - Crime KW - Criminal justice, Administration of N1 - Contents: 1. The Social Construction of Crime Myths Criminal Mythmakers Media as Mythmaker Government as Mythmaker Merging Mythmakers Creating Crime Myths etc. 2. Crime Waves, Crime Fears and the Social Reality of Crime How much crime is there? The Reality of crime Crime images Conclusion 3. The Myth and Fear of Child Abduction Sensational Images Creating Reality through Misleading Statistics Latent Functions of prevention Legal Reform: Creating crime and Criminals Conclusion 4. Myth and Murder the serial killer Panic Creating a Myth The Lucas Case The Reality of serial murder Explaining a panic Conclusion 5. Of Stalkers and Murder Spreading Myth to Common Crime Constructing the Myth of Stalking Officialising the Myth Measuring the Reality of Stalking Consequences of Criminalization Conclusion 6. Blue Smoke and mirrors the "War" on Organized Crime The official Myth of Organized Crime Historical Myths of Organized Crime Empirical Evidence and Organized Crime Headhunting Controlling Organized Crime 7. Myths That Justify Crime a look at corporate Crime in the United States 'Real' Crime and Corporate Crime The costs of Corporate Crime Corporate Crime and Criminal Intent The Criminogenic Corporation Law Enforcement and White-Collar Crime, etc. 8. Drug War Cowboys The Demonization of IlIicit Drugs Drugs and Crime Law Enforcement Strategies in the war on Drugs Measures of Success in the war on Drugs Racism and the drug war, etc. 9. Juvenile Superpredators the Myths of Killer Kids, Dangerous Schools and a Youth Crime Wave. Cracking Down on Juvenile Crime Lock'em up and Throw Away the key The Myth of a Juvenile Crime wave Dangerous Schools and Violent Students The Impact of Treating Juvenile as Adults, etc. 10. Battered and Blue Crime Fighters Myths and Misconceptions of Police work Real Police work Myth of Police Stress Living the Crime Fighter Myth Conclusion 11. Order in the Courts the Myth of Equal Justice The Role of law in society Celebrity Cases The Bias of Arrest The Bias of Trial The Bias of sentencing, etc. 12. Cons and Country Clubs the Mythical utility of Punishment Who does the crime determines the time Mythical Assumptions: Unrelenting consequences Behind Bars The Pains of Imprisonment, etc. 13. The Myth of a lenient Criminal Justice System International Comparison The Trend Toward Greater Punitiveness in the United States The Crime Rate in the United states Conclusion 14. Debunking the Death Penalty Myths of Crime Control and Capital Punishment The Myth of General Deterrence The Cost of the Death Penalty Incapacitation Fighting Crime The Juvenile Death Penalty Conclusion 15. Merging Myths and Misconceptions of Crime and Justice Recycled Frameworks The Electronic Echo Chamber Of politics and Demagogues Fallout from Crime Myths Masking Social Problems with Myth, etc; References : p. 311-338 . _ Index : p. 339-354 ER -