In The Myth of Mob Rule, Lisa Miller compares three countries--the US, the UK, and the
Netherlands--and explores when and with what consequences crime becomes a politically …

The first thorough study of the co-existence of crime and democratic processes in Indian
politics In India, the world s largest democracy, the symbiotic relationship between crime and …

Contemporary scholarship on punishment, politics and society generally treats democratic
politics and crime policy as a dangerous mix. In this view, when crime comes onto …

Although the politics of law and order are currently a major issue of debate among
criminologists, comparative public policy research has largely neglected it. This article fills …

The rate at which the mafia problem is exploding in an ever-growing number of countries,
both developed and developing, challenges our understanding over and above our moral …

This chapter describes the growing political salience of issues of crime control in liberal
democracies. It distinguishes three broad strategies of crime control that have crystallized in …

Empirical evidence for a relationship between democracy and crime has not been
investigated. This paper combines several international data sets to show that, compared to …

This innovative book investigates the paradoxical situation whereby organized crime
groups, authoritarian in nature and anti-democratic in practice, perform at their best in …

Despite simultaneous increases in democratization and violent crime rates in many
countries during the second half of the twentieth century, the authors could find no prior …

Comparative perspectives on crime and violence have paid little attention to the institutional
context of the polity with few exceptions. Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature …