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Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice

Author : Charles E. Silberman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Crime
ISBN : 9780394741475

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The author explores the roots of crime in poverty, racism, and social injustice.

Criminal Violence

Author : Marc Riedel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 2015-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199386137

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Examines violence. Looks at characteristics of victims, offenders, and offenses, places where violence occurs, and trends over time. Also examines theories used to understand types of violence and solutions proposed, including proactive (preventive) and reactive (punishment) strategies.

Beyond Violence

Author : Stephanie S. Covington
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1118657101

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Beyond Violence: A Prevention Program for Women is a forty-hour, evidence-based, gender-responsive, trauma-informed treatment program specifically developed for women who have committed a violent crime and are incarcerated. This program offers counselors, mental health professionals, and program administrators the tools they need to implement a gender-responsive, trauma-informed treatment program within the criminal justice system. This Participant Workbook helps participants understand the relationships between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; learn new skills, including communication, conflict resolution, decision making, and calming soothing techniques; and become part of a group of women working to create a less violent world.

Random Violence

Author : Joel Best
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 1999-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520921672

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Random Violence is a deft and thought-provoking exploration of the ways we talk about—and why we worry about—new crimes and new forms of victimization. Focusing on so-called random crimes such as freeway shootings, gang violence, hate crimes, stalking, and wilding, Joel Best shows how new crime problems emerge and how some quickly fade from public attention while others spread and become enduring subjects of concern. Best's original and incisive argument illuminates the fact that while these crimes are in actuality neither new, nor epidemic, nor random, the language used to describe them nonetheless shapes both private fears and public policies. Best scrutinizes the melodramatic quality of the American public's attitudes toward crime, exposing the cultural context for the popularity of "random violence" as a catch-all phrase to describe contemporary crime, and the fallacious belief that violence is steadily rising. He points out that the age, race, and sex of homicide victims reveal that violence is highly patterned. Best also details the contemporary ideology of victimization, as well as the social arrangements that create and support a victim industry that can label large numbers of victims. He demonstrates why it has become commonplace to "declare war" on social problems, including drugs, crime, poverty, and cancer, and outlines the complementary influence of media, activists, officials, and experts in institutionalizing crime problems. Intrinsic to all these concerns is the way in which policy choices and outcomes are affected by the language used to describe social problems.

Votes, Drugs, and Violence

Author : Guillermo Trejo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108899900

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One of the most surprising developments in Mexico's transition to democracy is the outbreak of criminal wars and large-scale criminal violence. Why did Mexican drug cartels go to war as the country transitioned away from one-party rule? And why have criminal wars proliferated as democracy has consolidated and elections have become more competitive subnationally? In Votes, Drugs, and Violence, Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley develop a political theory of criminal violence in weak democracies that elucidates how democratic politics and the fragmentation of power fundamentally shape cartels' incentives for war and peace. Drawing on in-depth case studies and statistical analysis spanning more than two decades and multiple levels of government, Trejo and Ley show that electoral competition and partisan conflict were key drivers of the outbreak of Mexico's crime wars, the intensification of violence, and the expansion of war and violence to the spheres of local politics and civil society.

Popular Crime

Author : Bill James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 141655274X

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Originally published: 2011. With new addendum.

Violent Crime

Author : Christopher J. Ferguson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412959934

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This edited volume provides cutting edge research in an easily accesible format.

Family Violence and Criminal Justice

Author : Brian K. Payne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1317522583

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The historical context of family violence is explored, as well as the various forms of violence, their prevalence in specific stages of life, and responses to it made by the criminal justice system and other agencies. The linkage among child abuse, partner violence and elder abuse is scrutinized, and the usefulness of the life-course approach is couched in terms of its potential effect on policy implications; research methods that recognize the importance of life stages, trajectories, and transitions; and crime causation theories that can be enhanced by it.

A Pattern of Violence

Author : David Alan Sklansky
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,64 MB
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674259696

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A law professor and former prosecutor reveals how inconsistent ideas about violence, enshrined in law, are at the root of the problems that plague our entire criminal justice system—from mass incarceration to police brutality. We take for granted that some crimes are violent and others aren’t. But how do we decide what counts as a violent act? David Alan Sklansky argues that legal notions about violence—its definition, causes, and moral significance—are functions of political choices, not eternal truths. And these choices are central to failures of our criminal justice system. The common distinction between violent and nonviolent acts, for example, played virtually no role in criminal law before the latter half of the twentieth century. Yet to this day, with more crimes than ever called “violent,” this distinction determines how we judge the seriousness of an offense, as well as the perpetrator’s debt and danger to society. Similarly, criminal law today treats violence as a pathology of individual character. But in other areas of law, including the procedural law that covers police conduct, the situational context of violence carries more weight. The result of these inconsistencies, and of society’s unique fear of violence since the 1960s, has been an application of law that reinforces inequities of race and class, undermining law’s legitimacy. A Pattern of Violence shows that novel legal philosophies of violence have motivated mass incarceration, blunted efforts to hold police accountable, constrained responses to sexual assault and domestic abuse, pushed juvenile offenders into adult prisons, encouraged toleration of prison violence, and limited responses to mass shootings. Reforming legal notions of violence is therefore an essential step toward justice.

Criminal Violence

Author : Marc Riedel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,64 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Violence
ISBN : 9780199738786

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Criminal Violence: Patterns, Causes, and Prevention, Third Edition, provides a current, comprehensive, and highly accessible overview of major topics, theories, and controversies within the field of criminal violence. Using lively, straightforward language, Marc Riedel and Wayne Welsh consider diverse theoretical perspectives and present state-of-the-art prevention and intervention methods. In their discussions of various types of violence, the authors employ a consistent and coherent three-part framework that allows students to see the important relationships between research, theory, and application: * "Patterns" describe the characteristics of victims, offenders, and offenses; places where violence occurs frequently; and trends over time. * "Explanations" look at the major theories that are used to understand each type of violence. * "Interventions" propose solutions for each type of violence, including diverse legal and social strategies--both proactive (e.g., prevention) and reactive (e.g., punishment). Supplemented by an Instructor's Manual with Test Bank and PowerPoint-based lecture slides on CD, the thoroughly revised and updated third edition: * Now integrates theory into each chapter, allowing students to better understand how theory relates to various types of violence * Integrates a comparative perspective where appropriate * Adds additional examples, boxes, bullet points, review questions, and case studies throughout