The Organizational Politics of Criminal Justice
Author | : Virginia Gray |
Publisher | : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Virginia Gray |
Publisher | : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Erika Fairchild |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
The editors examine politics, crime, and criminal justice in the US against a background of attempts to re-establish political accountability for the criminal justice process. Most of the articles are based on original field research across a large number of jurisdictions and approaches. 'Politics' is here defined as the relations of power and influence that occur between those who are professionally involved in the criminal justice system, and those who are part of the political apparatus.
Author | : Rachel Elise Barkow |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2019-03-04 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674919238 |
America’s criminal justice system reflects irrational fears stoked by politicians seeking to win election. Pointing to specific policies that are morally problematic and have failed to end the cycle of recidivism, Rachel Barkow argues that reform guided by evidence, not politics and emotions, will reduce crime and reverse mass incarceration.
Author | : Ted Gest |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2003-08-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190290137 |
Why has America experienced an explosion in crime rates since 1960? Why has the crime rate dropped in recent years? Though politicians are always ready both to take the credit for crime reduction and to exploit grisly headlines for short-term political gain, these questions remain among the most important-and most difficult to answer-in America today. In Crime & Politics, award-winning journalist Ted Gest gives readers the inside story of how crime policy is formulated inside the Washington beltway and state capitols, why we've had cycle after cycle of ineffective federal legislation, and where promising reforms might lead us in the future. Gest examines how politicians first made crime a national rather than a local issue, beginning with Lyndon Johnson's crime commission and the landmark anti-crime law of 1968 and continuing right up to such present-day measures as "three strikes" laws, mandatory sentencing, and community policing. Gest exposes a lack of consistent leadership, backroom partisan politics, and the rush to embrace simplistic solutions as the main causes for why Federal and state crime programs have failed to make our streets safe. But he also explores how the media aid and abet this trend by featuring lurid crimes that simultaneously frighten the public and encourage candidates to offer another round of quick-fix solutions. Drawing on extensive research and including interviews with Edwin Meese, Janet Reno, Joseph Biden, Ted Kennedy, and William Webster, Crime & Politics uncovers the real reasons why America continues to struggle with the crime problem and shows how we do a better job in the future.
Author | : Professor Kevin Martin Stenson |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1991-10-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781446234365 |
What is meant by crime, crime prevention and crime control? Who defines the acts which are deemed as criminal? Who devises the sanctions and who acts as agents of social control? This timely and challenging book brings together a group of leading international criminologists from all sides of the political spectrum. They first examine the formation and implementation of official crime prevention and control policies. In the second part they look at a range of critical perspectives which explore the definition of crime and discuss proposals for its prevention and control.
Author | : Marc G. Gertz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Court administration |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George F. Cole |
Publisher | : Wadsworth Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
This text provides an in-depth look at policy issues related to policing, courts, and corrections. It gives students the opportunity to look at difficult issues related to important topics, through an interesting selection of readings. Flexible in its design, the book includes twenty-seven classic and contemporary articles that promote understanding of important issues in the field and encourage readers to think critically about the links between police, politics, law and the administration of justice. Students will explore everything from the crime policies that do or do not work to the latest hot topics.
Author | : Michael H. Tonry |
Publisher | : Oxford Handbooks |
Total Pages | : 655 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0195336178 |
This handbook offers a comprehensive examination of crimes as public policy subjects to provide an authoritative overview of current knowledge about the nature, scale, and effects of diverse forms of criminal behaviour and of efforts to prevent and control them.
Author | : Peter J. Benekos |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2014-09-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317523474 |
This book reviews concepts, information and points of view that help to explain the context and constraints of the criminal justice system. The chapters summarize developments in public policy and crime control, and interweave themes central to the discussion: the impact of ideology, the role of the media, and the politicization of crime and criminal justice.