Author: United States. Law Enforcement Assistance AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of court proceedings
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Two Hundred Years of American Criminal Justice
Author: United States. Law Enforcement Assistance AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of court proceedings
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Two Hundred Years of American Criminal Justice
Author: U. S. Department of JusticePublisher:
ISBN: 9781410223883
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This illustrated history of the U.S. criminal justice system from the colonial period to the present discusses the development of our police, courts, corrections system, juvenile justice and delinquency prevention programs, and more. It also describes the role of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration since its establishment in 1969.
Two Hundred Years of American Criminal Justice : an L.e.a.a. Bicentennial Study
Author: U.s. law enforcement assistance administrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two Hundred Years of American Criminal Justice
Author: Stati Uniti d'America. Law Enforcement Assistance AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two Hundred Years of American Criminal Justice$dAn LEAA Bicentennial Study
Author: Two Hundred Years of American Criminal Justice
Author: United States Department of Justice. Law enforcement assistance administrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Two Hundred Years of American Criminal Justice
Author: United States. Law Enforcement Assistance AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of court proceedings
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
Author: William J. StuntzPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674051750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Rule of law has vanished in America’s criminal justice system. Prosecutors decide whom to punish; most accused never face a jury; policing is inconsistent; plea bargaining is rampant; and draconian sentencing fills prisons with mostly minority defendants. A leading criminal law scholar looks to history for the roots of these problems—and solutions.
Breaking the Pendulum
Author: Philip GoodmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199976074
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The history of criminal justice in the U.S. is often described as a pendulum, swinging back and forth between strict punishment and lenient rehabilitation. While this view is common wisdom, it is wrong. In Breaking the Pendulum, Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps systematically debunk the pendulum perspective, showing that it distorts how and why criminal justice changes. The pendulum model blinds us to the blending of penal orientations, policies, and practices, as well as the struggle between actors that shapes laws, institutions, and how we think about crime, punishment, and related issues. Through a re-analysis of more than two hundred years of penal history, starting with the rise of penitentiaries in the 19th Century and ending with ongoing efforts to roll back mass incarceration, the authors offer an alternative approach to conceptualizing penal development. Their agonistic perspective posits that struggle is the motor force of criminal justice history. Punishment expands, contracts, and morphs because of contestation between real people in real contexts, not a mechanical "swing" of the pendulum. This alternative framework is far more accurate and empowering than metaphors that ignore or downplay the importance of struggle in shaping criminal justice. This clearly written, engaging book is an invaluable resource for teachers, students, and scholars seeking to understand the past, present, and future of American criminal justice. By demonstrating the central role of struggle in generating major transformations, Breaking the Pendulum encourages combatants to keep fighting to change the system.
From Retribution to Public Safety
Author: William R. KellyPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442273895
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Over the past fifty years, American criminal justice policy has had a nearly singular focus – the relentless pursuit of punishment. Punishment is intuitive, proactive, logical, and simple. But the problem is that despite all of the appeal, logic, and common sense, punishment doesn't work. The majority of crimes committed in the United States are by people who have been through the criminal justice system before, many on multiple occasions. There are two issues that are the primary focus of this book. The first is developing a better approach than simple punishment to actually address crime-related circumstances, deficits and disorders, in order to change offender behavior, reduce recidivism, victimization and cost. And the second issue is how do we do a better job of determining who should be diverted and who should be criminally prosecuted. From Retribution to Public Safety develops a strategy for informed decision making regarding criminal prosecution and diversion. The authors develop procedures for panels of clinical experts to provide prosecutors with recommendations about diversion and intervention. This requires a substantial shift in criminal procedure as well as major reform to the public health system, both of which are discussed in detail. Rather than ask how much punishment is necessary the authors look at how we can best reduce recidivism. In doing so they develop a roadmap to fix a fundamentally flawed system that is wasting massive amounts of public resources to not reducing crime or recidivism.