The mystery does not always end when the crime has been solved. Indeed, the most insolvable problems of crime and punishment are not so much who committed the crime, but how to see that justice is done. Now, in this illuminating volume, one of America's great legal thinkers, Norval Morris, addresses some of the most perplexing and controversial ...
In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed what was one of the most brutal convict settlements in history into a controlled, stable, and ...
This text is an informative account of the growth and development of the prison in Western society, from classical times to the present day. In 14 chapters - each written by specialists in social, legal, and institutional history - the book explores not only the complex history of the prison, but also the social world of inmates and their keepers.
'We have a cure for crime.' Morris and Hawkins boldly state. 'We offer not a lightning panacea but rather a legislative and administrative regimen which would substantially reduce crime and the fear of crime.'
Across the country prisons are jammed to capacity and, in extreme cases, barges and mobile homes are used to stem the overflow. Probation officers in some cities have caseloads of 200 and more--hardly a manageable number of offenders to track and supervise. And with about one million people in prison and jail, and two and a half million on ...
The authors argue that America's overwhelmed corrections system cannot cope with the rising crime rate unless sentencing policy is fundamentally reformed. They conclude their study with recommendations for a range of intermediate punishments.
Modern Policing, a critical assessment of contemporary police agencies, is the fifteenth volume in the Crime and Justice series. Modern Policing is a comprehensive review for students and scholars of criminal justice and public policy, as well as specialists in sociology and history.
This is the first in a series of annual volumes of commissioned essays on research in crime and justice, designed to survey the contours of knowledge of crime and of society's methods to understand and deal with it.
Examining the ways in which communities both affect crime and are affected by it, this volume seeks to explain the variation of crime among socially organized communities. Traditional information about crime is usually described in terms of specific events involving individual offenders and victims. Crime statistics regarding offense and ...
Volume 6 is essential reading for scholars and researcher's who need a general knowledge about crime, its causes, and its cures. Readers will find a wide variety of topics in this volume, including prison crowding, the turnabout in the insanity defense, delinquency careers, the prediction of dangerousness and criminological research in Scandinavia.
This step-by-step tour of the criminal justice system offers insight into the social and psychological changes offenders and their families can expect to go through during each stage of the "correctional experience." Examines how to cope with incarceration, prepare for release and return to the community.
Crime And Justice was founded in 1979 to treat important developments in the study of the criminal justice system. In order to achieve broad coverage, this distinguished series of commissioned essays encompasses topics both within and outside of the accepted core of research on crime and justice, including legal, psychological, biological, ...
As a review of research, Volume 10 is essential reading for scholars and researchers who need a general source of knowledge about crime, its causes, and its cure. The international contributors to this volume address a variety of topics, including prison populations, the structuring of sentencing, community policing, drunk driving, and ...
This is the second in a widely acclaimed series of annual volumes of commissioned essays treating important developments in criminal justice research. This volume includes exciting essays from the relatively new area of the history of crime and justice and a fascinating piece on biology and crime.
Crime And Justice was founded in 1979 to treat important developments in the study of the criminal justice system. In order to achieve broad coverage, this distinguished series of commissioned essays encompasses topics both within and outside of the accepted core of research on crime and justice, including legal, psychological, biological, ...
'This series, one of the finest of its kind, commissions comprehensive and up-to-date reviews of research on selected key issues in criminology and criminal justice and of the public policy applications of this research.' - Neil Alan Weiner, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
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