TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Power to the people: Violent victimization, inequality and democratic politics
JO  - Theoretical criminology
A1  - Miller, Lisa L.
SP  - 283
EP  - 313
VL  - 17
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1362-4806
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362480612471151
ID  - ref1
ER  -