@article{ref1,
title="Power to the people: Violent victimization, inequality and democratic politics",
journal="Theoretical criminology",
year="2013",
author="Miller, Lisa L.",
volume="17",
number="3",
pages="283-313",
abstract="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 democratic political agendas, it generates perverse political incentives that result in politicians pandering to and/or manipulating mass publics bent on harsh punishment. In this article, I argue that an examination of violent victimization complicates this conventional wisdom. Using violence as a framework, I challenge three fundamental assumptions about the relationship between democracy and crime. From there, I suggest how different democratic institutional arrangements might facilitate broader public participation in crime politics, and how that participation can lead to promoting less, rather than more punishment.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1362-4806",
doi="10.1177/1362480612471151",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362480612471151"
}