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The Policing Web
Inbunden, 2010
1671 kr
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In this comprehensive study, Jean-Paul Brodeur examines the diversity of the policing web. Policing agencies such as criminal investigation units, intelligence services, private security companies, and military policing organizations, are examined in addition to public uniformed police, to show the …
Of One-eyed and Toothless Miscreants
Making the Punishment Fit the Crime?
Inbunden, 2019
1417 kr
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Can punishments ever meaningfully be proportioned in severity to the seriousness of the crimes for which they are imposed? A great deal of attention has been paid to the general justification of punishment, but the thorny practical questions have received significantly less. Serious analysis has …
Sentencing Fragments
Penal Reform in America, 1975-2025
Inbunden, 2016
894 kr
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Sentencing matters. Life, liberty, and property are at stake. Convicted offenders and victims care about it for obvious reasons, while judges and prosecutors also have a moral stake in the process. Never-the-less, the current system of sentencing criminal offenders is in a shambles, with a crazy …
Children of the Prison Boom
Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality
Av Sara Wakefield, Christopher Wildeman
Häftad, 2016
730 kr
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An unrelenting prison boom, marked by stark racial disparities, pulled a disproportionate number of young black men into prison in the last forty years. In Children of the Prison Boom, Sara Wakefield and Christopher Wildeman draw upon broadly representative survey data and interviews to describe …
The Partisan Politics of Law and Order
Inbunden, 2020
1173 kr
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Whereas some Western democracies have turned toward substantially tougher law and order policies, others have not. How can we account for this discrepancy? In The Partisan Politics of Law and Order, Georg Wenzelburger argues that partisan politics have shaped the development of law and order …
Bad Kids
Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court
Inbunden, 1999
1995 kr
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Written by a leading scholar of juvenile justice, this book examines the social and legal changes that have transformed the juvenile court in the last three decades from a nominally rehabilitative welfare agency into a scaled-down criminal court for young offenders. It explores the complex …
Bad Kids
Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court
Häftad, 1999
778 kr
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Within the past three decades, social and legal changes have transformed the juvenile court from a nominally rehabilitative welfare agency into a second-class criminal court for young offenders. Recent efforts to "toughen" juvenile justice policies have resulted in increasingly harsh sanctions that …
Responding to Troubled Youth
Av Cheryl L. Maxson, Malcolm W. Klein
Inbunden, 1997
654 kr
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This book provides an overview of the dominant philosophical approaches and practices in handling status offenders - the kinds of youth who habitually resist the control of their parents and schools, who run away from home, who drink and stay out after curfew. The three basic and competing social …
The Habits of Legality
Criminal Justice and the Rule of Law
Inbunden, 1996
1994 kr
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This book provides a broad summary of American criminal justice in a time of great concern about solutions to the current crime epidemic. Allen suggests that the way to a more effective penal policy can be found by a closer adherence to the law rather than the current trend to bypass certain laws …
Police for the Future
Av Bayley
Häftad, 1996
613 kr
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Police for the Future analyses what the police are accomplishing in modern democratic countries and whether changes are needed. It argues that the police are failing to provide the protection against crime that the public so desperately wants. It assesses the impediments to effective crime …
Community Policing, Chicago Style
Av Wesley G. Skogan, Susan M. Hartnett
Inbunden, 1997
2501 kr
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Police departments across the USA are busily "reinventing" themselves, adopting a new style known as "community policing". Police departments that succeed in adopting this new stance have an entirely different relationship to the public that they serve. Chicago made the transition, and this book …
Hate Crimes
Criminal Law and Identity Politics
Av James B. Jacobs, Kimberly Potter
Inbunden, 1998
1953 kr
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Early in the 1980s, a new category of crime appeared in the criminal law lexicon. In response to what was said to be an epidemic of prejudice-motivated violence, Congress and many state legislatures passed a wave of "hate crime" laws that required the collection of statistics and enhanced the …
Politics, Punishment, and Populism
Inbunden, 1998
2037 kr
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In this timely, challenging book, a former minister and current legislator in the British government examines the wave of American federal crime-control laws that surfaced both before and after the 1994 "Republican Revolution" in Congress. Lord Windlesham focuses on the pressure that populist …
The American Street Gang
Its Nature, Prevalence, and Control
Av Klein
Häftad, 1997
259 kr
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This book reviews what has been known about gangs, and updates that information into the 1990s. It covers reported changes in the structure and crime patterns of gangs, their age, ethnic, and gender characteristics, and their spread into almost all corners of the nation. It also reviews and updates …
Incapacitation
Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime
Häftad, 1997
703 kr
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In this, the first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation, Professors Zimring and Hawkins show the increasing reliance of restraint to justify imprisonment, analyse the existing theoretical literature on incapacitation effects, review the existing empirical research on the topic, report a new …
American Youth Violence
Inbunden, 1999
2031 kr
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This is the definitive examination of adolescent violence in the United States as both a social phenomenon and a policy problem. Franklin Zimring, one of America's most esteemed scholars of law and crime, scrutinizes criminal statistics and demographic trends in order to authoritatively address …
Sentencing Matters
Häftad, 1999
1550 kr
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Michael Tonry offers a comprehensive overview of research, policy developments, and practical experience concerning sentencing and sanctions. He considers what we know about the effects of innovations of the past twenty years on sentencing disparities, and what directions policy should move in the …
Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries
Av Michael Tonry, Richard Frase
Inbunden, 2001
3176 kr
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This collection of original essays surveys the evolution of sentencing policies and practices in Western countries over the past twenty-five years. The volume consists of approximately ten essays. Six consider sentencing policy strategies and practices in major western countries, including …
Crime Is Not the Problem
Lethal Violence in America
Häftad, 1999
341 kr
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This book has three main aims: the first is to show that what separates the USA from other countries is not crime rates but lethal violence. Crimes like burglary and theft are a part of modern urban life worldwide; shootings and stabbings are not - they are particularly American. Why is this so? …
Penal Populism and Public Opinion
Lessons from Five Countries
Av Julian V. Roberts, Loretta J. Stalans m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1787 kr
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Although criminal justice systems vary greatly around the world, one theme has emerged in all western jurisdictions in recent years: a rise in both the rhetoric and practice of severe punishment at a time when public opinion has played a pivotal role in sentencing policy and reforms. Despite the …
Making Crime Pay
Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics
Häftad, 1999
673 kr
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Most Americans are not aware that the US prison population has tripled over the past two decades, nor that the US has the highest rate of incarceration in the industrialized world. Despite these facts, politicians from across the ideological spectrum continue to campaign on "law and order" …
Chinatown Gangs
Extortion, Enterprise, and Ethnicity
Av Ko-lin Chin
Häftad, 2000
1153 kr
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In Chinatown Gangs, Ko-lin Chin penetrates a closed society and presents a rare portrait of the underworld of New York City's Chinatown. Based on first-hand accounts from gang members, gang victims, community leaders, and law enforcement authorities, this pioneering study reveals the pervasiveness, …
Community Policing, Chicago Style
Av Wesley G. Skogan, Susan M. Hartnett
Häftad, 1999
1153 kr
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Police departments across the country are busily "reinventing" themselves, adopting a new style known as "community policing". This approach to policing involves organizational decentralization, new channels of communication with the public, a commitment to responding to what the community thinks …
Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation
Inbunden, 2001
3315 kr
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Braithwaite's argument against punitive justice systems and for restorative justice systems establishes that there are good theoretical and empirical grounds for anticipating that well designed restorative justice processes will restore victims, offenders, and communities better than existing …
Punishment and Democracy
Three Strikes and You're Out in California
Av Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
2965 kr
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This book is the most comprehensive treatment of the politics and the impact of the 'get tough' criminal sentencing legislation in the US. It includes a major empirical study of the celebrated California 'three strikes' law, the law that imposed a 25-years to life imprisonment the moment of a third …
Gun Violence: The Real Costs
Av Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig
Inbunden, 2000
2257 kr
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The objective of this book is to quantify the social costs of gun violence in order to help policy makers determine how many and which violence programmes to support. Drawing upon the most detailed and extensive economic study of the cost of gun violence, Cook and Ludwig provide detailed …
Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries
Av Michael Tonry, Richard Frase
Häftad, 2001
838 kr
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This collection of original essays surveys the evolution of sentencing policies and practices in Western countries over the past twenty-five years. The volume consists of approximately ten essays. Six consider sentencing policy strategies and practices in major western countries, including …
Hate Crimes
Criminal Law and Identity Politics
Av James B. Jacobs, Kimberly Potter
Häftad, 2001
538 kr
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In the early 1980s, a new category of crime appeared in the criminal law lexicon. In response to concerted advocacy-group lobbying, Congress and many state legislatures passed a wave of "hate crime" laws requiring the collection of statistics on, and enhancing the punishment for, crimes motivated …
American Youth Violence
Häftad, 2000
683 kr
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In the past decade, alarming reports of youth violence have appeared with increasing frequency in the news media. Legislators across the United States have responded to this sense of national emergency by changing many of the laws designed to cope with juvenile offenders. But are we really in the …
Locked Out
Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy
Av Jeff Manza, Christopher Uggen
Inbunden, 2006
477 kr
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5.4 million Americans--1 in every 40 voting age adults-- are denied the right to participate in democratic elections because of a past or current felony conviction. In several American states, 1 in 4 black men cannot vote due to a felony conviction. In a country that prides itself on universal …
