Format:
Online-Ressource (183 p.)
ISBN:
9780816609017
Content:
The Policy Dilemma was first published in 1981. What can and should the federal government do to solve complex social problems? Malcolm M. Feeley and Austin D. Sarat address this question in the context of one important issue, the problem of crime. They examine a major federal program, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, and show how its operation is shaped and reflects what they call the ""policy dilemma."" In response to the public's demands, the government tries to do too much and promises more than it can deliver. While The Policy Dilemma is first of all a study of the federal g
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Contents; Introduction; 1. The Policy Dilemma and the Problem of Crime; 2. Federal Crime Policy: The Safe Streets Act of 1968; 3. Thinking about Crime: Comprehensive Planning and the Idea of Rationality; 4. New Answers to Old Problems: Innovation; 5. Finding Out What Works: Evaluation and the Limits of the "Scientific" Paradigm; 6. Conclusions: Incoherence, Implementation and the Dilemma of National Crime Policy; Notes; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816655533
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816609017
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Policy Dilemma : Federal Crime Policy and the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, 1968-1978
Language:
English
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