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  2. La Mano Dura - Wikipedia

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    La Mano Dura ("Firm Hand" or "Iron Fist") is a set of tough-on-crime policies put in place by Latin American governments in response to the problem of gang violence, organized crime and insecurity. [1] These policies were put in place in response to popular calls for the government to do something about the problem of rampant crime. La Mano ...

  3. Law and order (politics) - Wikipedia

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    Despite the widespread popularity of "law and order" ideas and approaches between the 1960s to the 1980s exemplified by presidential candidates including Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan running successfully on a "tough-on-crime" platform, statistics on crime showed a significant increase of crime throughout the 1970s and 1980s instead, and ...

  4. 'Tough on crime' policies behind prison crisis, says review

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    Despite an overall decline in crime since the mid-1990s, England and Wales' prison population has almost doubled between 1993 and 2012, the review found, while reoffending has stayed stubbornly high.

  5. Tough on crime - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 9 July 2023, at 12:16 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply ...

  6. A tough-on-crime approach is back in US state capitols

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    Criminals “have become emboldened because they can get away with things and pretty much get a slap on the wrist,” Watson said. "Violent or nonviolent, a crime is a crime. And that crime needs to be punished.” Drug crimes in the spotlight. Utah state Rep. Matthew Gwynn, a Republican, is among many lawmakers targeting fentanyl traffickers.

  7. New change coming to retail theft legislation could splinter ...

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    Legislators plan to fast-track bills to crack down on retail theft in California, pressuring supporters of a proposed tough-on-crime initiative on the November ballot to abandon that effort.

  8. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime - Wikipedia

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    "Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" was a British political slogan associated with New Labour.It was used in a September 1993 speech by Shadow Home Secretary and future party leader Tony Blair to the Labour party conference, [1] and was seen as an attempt at triangulation, with Labour using the slogan to attack the "tough on crime" approach traditionally favoured by the Conservative ...

  9. Tide shifts against criminal justice reform among California ...

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    The 2024 election results in California include the passage of a tough-on-crime ballot measure, along with confirmed or likely defeats for two progressive district attorneys and an initiative to ...