Setting the Public Agenda: "Street Crime" and Drug Use in American Politics
- 1 August 1994
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Problems
- Vol. 41 (3) , 425-447
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3096971
Abstract
Social control issues such as “street crime” and drug use have received an extraordinary degree of political attention in the United States since 196Keywords
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