Joseph Dillon Davey

The New Social Contract (eBook, PDF)

America's Journey from Welfare State to Police State

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

According to the Justice Department's National Crime Survey, the crime rate in the United States is lower today than it was when Nixon was in the White House. In spite of this, political leaders demand nationwide prison construction as a response to the war on drugs and to accommodate the results of the new three strikes law. At the same time, the gap between rich and poor is wider than ever and the needs of the non-disruptive poor are being ignored by the economic and political elites to the point of unprecedented homelessness. The author predicts this widening gap will prompt the return of 1960s-style civil turmoil which will lead to the end of the war on drugs and the emptying of hundreds of thousands of cells so the protesting poor can be plausibly threatened with incarceration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 1995
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313390609
• Artikelnr.: 38207805

Autorenporträt

JOSEPH DILLON DAVEY is a lawyer, political scientist, and writer of numerous journal articles on public policy. He has taught law, political science, and criminal justice on the undergraduate and graduate level for the past 20 years.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Poverty Urban Riots and the Beginning of the New Social
Contract The Restoration of Order and the Reduction in Social Provision:
Poverty in the 1990s The New Homelessness: The Reagan Legacy Crime The
Explosion of the Criminal Justice System: The Muscle of the New Social
Contract The F.B.I.'s "Dirty Little Secret": Lies, Damn Lies, and
Statistics The Media and Public Hysteria About Crime Legal Change Assault
on the Constitution: Penal Code Reforms Assault on the Constitution: The
Death of the Fourth Amendment The End of the War on Drugs Conclusion The
New Social Contract Notes Index