Policy Dilemma : Federal Crime Policy and the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, 1968-1978.

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 Enfor...

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Main Author: Feeley, Malcolm M.
Other Authors: Sarat, Austin D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1977.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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