Author: Albert M. RosenblattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drugs
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Sentencing & Corrections
Author: New York's New Drug Laws and Sentencing Statutes
Author: Albert M. RosenblattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drugs
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Getting Tough
Author: Julilly Kohler-HausmannPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400885183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The politics and policies that led to America's expansion of the penal system and reduction of welfare programs In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare. These campaigns helped expand the nation's penal system, discredit welfare programs, and cast blame for the era's social upheaval on racialized deviants that the state was not accountable to serve or represent. Getting Tough sheds light on how this unprecedented growth of the penal system and the evisceration of the nation's welfare programs developed hand in hand. Julilly Kohler-Hausmann shows that these historical events were animated by struggles over how to interpret and respond to the inequality and disorder that crested during this period. When social movements and the slowing economy destabilized the U.S. welfare state, politicians reacted by repudiating the commitment to individual rehabilitation that had governed penal and social programs for decades. In its place, they championed strategies of punishment, surveillance, and containment. The architects of these tough strategies insisted they were necessary, given the failure of liberal social programs and the supposed pathological culture within poor African American and Latino communities. Kohler-Hausmann rejects this explanation and describes how the spectacle of enacting punitive policies convinced many Americans that social investment was counterproductive and the "underclass" could be managed only through coercion and force. Getting Tough illuminates this narrative through three legislative cases: New York's adoption of the 1973 Rockefeller drug laws, Illinois's and California's attempts to reform welfare through criminalization and work mandates, and California's passing of a 1976 sentencing law that abandoned rehabilitation as an aim of incarceration. Spanning diverse institutions and weaving together the perspectives of opponents, supporters, and targets of punitive policies, Getting Tough offers new interpretations of dramatic transformations in the modern American state.
The Judges of the New York Court of Appeals
Author: Judith S. KayePublisher:
ISBN: 9780823227631
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
"This book fills a major gap in the literature of the law and of American history.
Heroin Indicators Trend Report
Author: National Institute on Drug AbusePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Fixing Broken Windows
Author: George L. KellingPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684837382
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Cites successful examples of community-based policing.
Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of DelegatesPublisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590318737
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
United States Attorneys' Manual
Author: United States. Department of JusticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Survey of State Prison Inmates, 1991
Author: Allen J. BeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description