Download or read book Urban Politics, Crime Rates, and Police Strength written by Thomas Dain Stucky and published by LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stucky (criminal justice, Indiana-Purdue U. at Indianapolis) analyzes the relationship between politics, crime, and police employment, expenditures, and arrests. Using political resource theory, he examines how resources are managed and provides an institutional resource perspective about crime and politics, while discussing social disorganization,