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Americans view crime and justice : a national public opinion survey / Timothy J. Flanagan, Dennis R. Longmire, editors.

Title
  1. Americans view crime and justice : a national public opinion survey / Timothy J. Flanagan, Dennis R. Longmire, editors.
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  1. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1996.

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Additional authors
  1. Flanagan, Timothy J.
  2. Longmire, Dennis R.
Description
  1. xiii, 219 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  1. Criminal justice, Administration of > United States > Public opinion
  2. Crime > United States > Public opinion
  3. Public opinion > United States
  4. Justice pénale > Administration > Opinion publique. > États-Unis
  5. Criminalité > États-Unis > Opinion publique
  6. Opinion publique > États-Unis
  7. Crime > Public opinion
  8. Criminal justice, Administration of > Public opinion
  9. Public opinion
  10. Kriminalität
  11. Öffentliche Meinung
  12. Strafrechtspflege
  13. Criminaliteit
  14. Publieke opinie
  15. Strafrechtspleging
  16. United States > Public opinion
  17. United States
  18. USA
Contents
  1. Public opinion on crime and justice : history, development, and trends / Timothy J. Flanagan -- America's fear of crime / Bahram Haghighi, Jon Sorensen -- Support and confidence : public attitudes toward the police / W.S. Wilson Huang, Michael S. Vaughn -- Bringing the offender to heel : views of the criminal courts / Laura B. Myers -- Just and painful : attitudes toward sentencing criminals / Jurg Gerber, Simone Engelhardt-Greer -- Reform or punish : Americans' views of the correctional system / Timothy J. Flanagan -- Americans' attitudes about the ultimate weapon : capital punishment / Dennis R. Longmire -- Guns and gun control / Kenneth Adams -- The modern plague : controlling substance abuse / Myrna Cintrón, W. Wesley Johnson -- The growing threat : gangs and juvenile offenders / Ruth Triplett -- Public opinion and public policy in criminal justice / Timothy J. Flanagan -- The art and science of survey research / James A. Dyer -- The National Opinion Survey on Crime and Justice, 1995 : development and methods / Barbara Sims.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-215).
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