The Crime Conundrum

Essays On Criminal Justice
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-30654-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

There may be areas of human life in which people have profited from understanding history, but criminal justice is definitely not one of them. In this field, each generation seems to undo the last generation's reforms. Each generation resurrects old failures and trots them out as new. A previous generation hailed indeterminate sentencing as a great

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Friedman, Lawrence M

Fisher, George

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Some Thoughts about Crime and Punishment -- Market, Crime and Community: Toward a Mid-Range Theory of Post-Industrial Violence -- Some Perspective on Crime and Criminal Justice Policy -- Age and Homicide in Different National Contexts -- Crime and Capitalization in the Czech Republic -- Trial by Jury, the Legitimacy of the Courts, and Crime Control -- Ideology and American Crime Policy, 1966-1996: An Exploratory Essay -- Some Thoughts about Police and Crime -- Cells vs. Cops vs. Classrooms -- Homicide over the Centuries -- Governing Through Crime -- Wars on Crime — Struggles for Justice: Conflicting Trends in American Criminal Justice, 1970-1995

Über Autor(innen)

Lawrence M. Friedman is Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford University. Harry N. Scheiber is the Stefan Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History, Boalt Hall School of Law, in the University of California at Berkeley.