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Author : Elliott Currie
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 1250024218
Argues that a policy of mass incarceration is ineffective and that prison expenditures could have greater impact on criminal violence if spent on prevention and rehabilitation programs.
Author : Lawrence Friedman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 1459608135
In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image.
Author : Wilbur R. Miller
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 2657 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1412988780
Several encyclopedias overview the contemporary system of criminal justice in America, but full understanding of current social problems and contemporary strategies to deal with them can come only with clear appreciation of the historical underpinnings of those problems. Thus, this five-volume work surveys the history and philosophy of crime, punishment, and criminal justice institutions in America from colonial times to the present. It covers the whole of the criminal justice system, from crimes, law enforcement and policing, to courts, corrections and human services. Among other things, this encyclopedia: explicates philosophical foundations underpinning our system of justice; charts changing patterns in criminal activity and subsequent effects on legal responses; identifies major periods in the development of our system of criminal justice; and explores in the first four volumes - supplemented by a fifth volume containing annotated primary documents - evolving debates and conflicts on how best to address issues of crime and punishment. Its signed entries in the first four volumes--supplemented by a fifth volume containing annotated primary documents--provide the historical context for students to better understand contemporary criminological debates and the contemporary shape of the U.S. system of law and justice.
Author : David B. Wolcott
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 2010
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1438126891
From the first incident of petty theft to modern media piracy, crime and punishment have been a part of every society. However, the structure and values of a particular society shape both the incidences of crime and the punishment of criminals. When the United States became an independent nation, politicians and civilians began the process of deciding which systems of punishment were appropriate for dealing with crimea process that continues to this day. Crime and Punishment in America examines the development of crime and punishment in the United Statesfrom the criminal justice practices of American Indians and the influence of colonists to the mistreatment of slaves, as well as such current criminal issues as the response to international terrorism.
Author : Ricardo D. Salvatore
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 12,57 MB
Release : 2001-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822327448
DIVEssays in collection argue that Latin American legal institutions were both mechanisms of social control and unique arenas for ordinary people to contest government policies and resist exploitation./div
Author : Katherine Beckett
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780761929949
Examines the US crime problem and the resulting policies as a political and cultural issue.
Author : Alexandra Natapoff
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 0465093809
A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals. Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massive petty offense system that produces over 13 million cases each year. People arrested for minor crimes are swept through courts where defendants often lack lawyers, judges process cases in mere minutes, and nearly everyone pleads guilty. This misdemeanor machine starts punishing people long before they are convicted; it punishes the innocent; and it punishes conduct that never should have been a crime. As a result, vast numbers of Americans -- most of them poor and people of color -- are stigmatized as criminals, impoverished through fines and fees, and stripped of drivers' licenses, jobs, and housing. For too long, misdemeanors have been ignored. But they are crucial to understanding our punitive criminal system and our widening economic and racial divides. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018
Author : Michael Tonry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195104691
Tonry focuses on the racial disparities in the criminal justice system, especially apparent discrimination toward black males.
Author : Michael Welch
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 1999-08-18
Category : Law
ISBN :
In Punishment in America Michael Welch gathers together his seminal contributions to the most crucial and controversial issues in criminal justice. Topics range from the war on drugs, boot camps and institutional violence, to AIDS and HIV, capital punishment and the entire corrections industry. This coherent, but critical vision of punishment and corrections emphasizes social control but takes account of key social forces such as politics, religion and morality.
Author : Anne-Marie Cusac
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0300155492
The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America’s imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward criminals and punishment? What does it say about us? This book explores the cultural evolution of punishment practices in the United States. Anne-Marie Cusac first looks at punishment in the nation’s early days, when Americans repudiated Old World cruelty toward criminals and emphasized rehabilitation over retribution. This attitude persisted for some 200 years, but in recent decades we have abandoned it, Cusac shows. She discusses the dramatic rise in the use of torture and restraint, corporal and capital punishment, and punitive physical pain. And she links this new climate of punishment to shifts in other aspects of American culture, including changes in dominant religious beliefs, child-rearing practices, politics, television shows, movies, and more. America now punishes harder and longer and with methods we would have rejected as cruel and unusual not long ago. These changes are profound, their impact affects all our lives, and we have yet to understand the full consequences.