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While teaching a criminology course in the fall of 2004, I asked my students to write a paper comparing the Democratic and Republican positions on crime and policing in that year’s presidential campaign. My goal was not only to engage students with the campaign, but to suggest how presidential campaign language about crime almost always focuses upon street crime, is heavy on a “get tough” message, and seeks to unite party supporters around the perception of shared values in juxtaposition to the “criminals” opposing us. To my, perhaps misguided, surprise many students informed me that they were unable to find positions on crime at either the party or candidates’ web sites. What they did find was a lot of information about “first responders” (police, fire, and emergency medical technicians) and Homeland Security.
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Mcgoldrick, S.K. (2006). Willie Horton to Osama bin Laden: The New Framing of Police and Crime in the 2004 Presidential Campaign. In: McGoldrick, S.K., McArdle, A. (eds) Uniform Behavior. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403983312_8
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