The politics of crime

Harvard Journal on Legislation

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages

  Chernoff, Harry A ^a   Kelly, Christopher M ^a   Kroger, John R ^a  

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EID: 0043189949     PISSN: 0017808X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (2)

1. As the Washington Post noted in 1992, *In good times and bad, Americans rate crime among their top five concerns. Senators and House members long ago began reading the polls, and since 1980 anticrime legislation has been passed by every Congress.* Guy Gugliotta, Crime Bill a Hostage of Politics, WASH. POST, Aug. 5, 1992, at Al. Since 1973, over 65% of Americans have consistently believed that the nation should spend more money to halt the rising crime rate. BEN WATTENBERG, VALUES MATTER MOST, 119, 124 (1995) (graphing National Opinion Research Poll).
2. As the Washington Post noted in 1992, *In good times and bad, Americans rate crime among their top five concerns. Senators and House members long ago began reading the polls, and since 1980 anticrime legislation has been passed by every Congress.* Guy Gugliotta, Crime Bill a Hostage of Politics, WASH. POST, Aug. 5, 1992, at Al. Since 1973, over 65% of Americans have consistently believed that the nation should spend more money to halt the rising crime rate. BEN WATTENBERG, VALUES MATTER MOST, 119, 124 (1995) (graphing National Opinion Research Poll).