Author: James Austin
Publisher:
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Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Reforming Florida's Unjust, Costly and Ineffective Sentencing Laws
Author: James Austin
Publisher:
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Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
National Assessment of Structured Sentencing
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Harm in American Penology
Author: Todd R. Clear
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 079149926X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book analyzes the sources and results of the fourfold increase in the U.S. correctional population since 1970. It considers the following themes: the value of punitiveness, defined as penal harm; research on crime and criminals; concerns about victims of crime; and concerns about community safety. It also analyzes the relationship between social problems and penal harm, such as poverty and crime during the twenty-year period of correctional expansion. The author argues that a careful review of proposals for expanded penal harm cannot be justified. The growth in corrections was not caused by crime nor has it reduced crime. Clear describes a new strategy for corrections based on his examination of the politics of social control and the growth in penal harm.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 079149926X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book analyzes the sources and results of the fourfold increase in the U.S. correctional population since 1970. It considers the following themes: the value of punitiveness, defined as penal harm; research on crime and criminals; concerns about victims of crime; and concerns about community safety. It also analyzes the relationship between social problems and penal harm, such as poverty and crime during the twenty-year period of correctional expansion. The author argues that a careful review of proposals for expanded penal harm cannot be justified. The growth in corrections was not caused by crime nor has it reduced crime. Clear describes a new strategy for corrections based on his examination of the politics of social control and the growth in penal harm.
Searching the Law - The States
Author: Francis R Doyle
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004531149
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 695
Book Description
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004531149
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 695
Book Description
Criminal Justice
Author: Chris W. Eskridge
Publisher: Roxbury Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher: Roxbury Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Reducing Crime in America, a Pragmatic Approach
Author: National Council on Crime and Delinquency
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Category : Crime prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Crime prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
It's about Time
Author: John Irwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This book provides the most up-to-date statistics on the crime rate, criminal justice expenditures, and the growth of the prison system. It also gives a critical analysis of the whole prison system while covering relevant topics such as contemporary prison conditions and release policies.
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This book provides the most up-to-date statistics on the crime rate, criminal justice expenditures, and the growth of the prison system. It also gives a critical analysis of the whole prison system while covering relevant topics such as contemporary prison conditions and release policies.
Crime and Delinquency
Author:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
It's about Time
Author: James Austin
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
IT'S ABOUT TIME provides a compelling argument, based on extensive research, illustrating how the U.S. attempts to lower crime by using our correctional system as the primary solution. The book includes personal accounts from prisoners to illustrate the brutal aspects of prison life and the intent of the U.S. to create a "prison industrial complex." This book often exposes students for the first time to varying points of view of the corrections system. The authors, one of whom served 10 years in prison and is now a noted criminologist in the field, present the material in a powerful but compassionate manner. The book's strong research base and accessible style make it a popular choice for a wide variety of courses.
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
IT'S ABOUT TIME provides a compelling argument, based on extensive research, illustrating how the U.S. attempts to lower crime by using our correctional system as the primary solution. The book includes personal accounts from prisoners to illustrate the brutal aspects of prison life and the intent of the U.S. to create a "prison industrial complex." This book often exposes students for the first time to varying points of view of the corrections system. The authors, one of whom served 10 years in prison and is now a noted criminologist in the field, present the material in a powerful but compassionate manner. The book's strong research base and accessible style make it a popular choice for a wide variety of courses.
Reforming Juvenile Justice
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309278937
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to discount long-term consequences, and heightened sensitivity to peers and other social influences. A key function of adolescence is developing an integrated sense of self, including individualization, separation from parents, and personal identity. Experimentation and novelty-seeking behavior, such as alcohol and drug use, unsafe sex, and reckless driving, are thought to serve a number of adaptive functions despite their risks. Research indicates that for most youth, the period of risky experimentation does not extend beyond adolescence, ceasing as identity becomes settled with maturity. Much adolescent involvement in criminal activity is part of the normal developmental process of identity formation and most adolescents will mature out of these tendencies. Evidence of significant changes in brain structure and function during adolescence strongly suggests that these cognitive tendencies characteristic of adolescents are associated with biological immaturity of the brain and with an imbalance among developing brain systems. This imbalance model implies dual systems: one involved in cognitive and behavioral control and one involved in socio-emotional processes. Accordingly adolescents lack mature capacity for self-regulations because the brain system that influences pleasure-seeking and emotional reactivity develops more rapidly than the brain system that supports self-control. This knowledge of adolescent development has underscored important differences between adults and adolescents with direct bearing on the design and operation of the justice system, raising doubts about the core assumptions driving the criminalization of juvenile justice policy in the late decades of the 20th century. It was in this context that the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) asked the National Research Council to convene a committee to conduct a study of juvenile justice reform. The goal of Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach was to review recent advances in behavioral and neuroscience research and draw out the implications of this knowledge for juvenile justice reform, to assess the new generation of reform activities occurring in the United States, and to assess the performance of OJJDP in carrying out its statutory mission as well as its potential role in supporting scientifically based reform efforts.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309278937
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to discount long-term consequences, and heightened sensitivity to peers and other social influences. A key function of adolescence is developing an integrated sense of self, including individualization, separation from parents, and personal identity. Experimentation and novelty-seeking behavior, such as alcohol and drug use, unsafe sex, and reckless driving, are thought to serve a number of adaptive functions despite their risks. Research indicates that for most youth, the period of risky experimentation does not extend beyond adolescence, ceasing as identity becomes settled with maturity. Much adolescent involvement in criminal activity is part of the normal developmental process of identity formation and most adolescents will mature out of these tendencies. Evidence of significant changes in brain structure and function during adolescence strongly suggests that these cognitive tendencies characteristic of adolescents are associated with biological immaturity of the brain and with an imbalance among developing brain systems. This imbalance model implies dual systems: one involved in cognitive and behavioral control and one involved in socio-emotional processes. Accordingly adolescents lack mature capacity for self-regulations because the brain system that influences pleasure-seeking and emotional reactivity develops more rapidly than the brain system that supports self-control. This knowledge of adolescent development has underscored important differences between adults and adolescents with direct bearing on the design and operation of the justice system, raising doubts about the core assumptions driving the criminalization of juvenile justice policy in the late decades of the 20th century. It was in this context that the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) asked the National Research Council to convene a committee to conduct a study of juvenile justice reform. The goal of Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach was to review recent advances in behavioral and neuroscience research and draw out the implications of this knowledge for juvenile justice reform, to assess the new generation of reform activities occurring in the United States, and to assess the performance of OJJDP in carrying out its statutory mission as well as its potential role in supporting scientifically based reform efforts.