Can crime make our world safer? Crimes are the worst of humanity’s
wrongs but, oddly, they sometimes “trigger” improvement in our
lives. Crimes That Changed Our World explores some of the most
important trigger cases of the past century, revealing much about how
change comes to our modern world. The exact nature of the
crime-outrage-reform dynamic can take many forms, and Paul and Sarah
Robinson explore those differences in the cases they present. Each
case is in some ways unique but there are repeating patterns that can
offer important insights about what produces change and how in the
future we might best manage it. Sometimes reform comes as a society
wrestles with a new and intolerable problem. Sometimes it comes
because an old problem from which we have long suffered suddenly has
an apparent solution provided by technology or some other social or
economic advance. Or, sometimes the engine of reform kicks into gear
simply because we decide as a society that we are no longer willing to
tolerate a long-standing problem and are now willing to do something
about it. As the amazing and often touching stories that the Robinsons
present make clear, the path of progress is not just a long series of
course corrections; sometimes it is a quick turn or an unexpected
lurch. In a flash we can suddenly feel different about present
circumstances, seeing a need for change and can often, just as
suddenly, do something about it. Every trigger crime that appears in
Crimes That Changed Our World highlights a societal problem that
America has chosen to deal with, each in a unique way. But what these
extraordinary, and sometime unexpected, cases have in common is that
all of them describe crimes that changed our world.
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ISBN
9781538102022
Publisert
2018
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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