Crime and justice in America: 1975-2025 /
For the American criminal justice system, 1975 was a watershed year. Offender rehabilitation and individualized sentencing fell from favor. The partisan politics of "law and order" took over. Among the results four decades later are the world's harshest punishments and highest impriso...
Saved in:
| Other Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
2013
|
| Series: | Crime and justice (Chicago, Ill.) ;
v. 42 |
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Evidence, ideology, and politics in the making of American criminal justice policy / Michael Tonry
- The great American gun war : notes from four decades in the trenches / Philip J. Cook
- Why has US drug policy changed so little over 30 years? / Peter Reuter
- Sentencing in America, 1975-2025 / Michael Tonry
- Deterrence in the twenty first century / Daniel S. Nagin
- American youth violence : a cautionary tale / Franklin E. Zimring
- Rehabilitation : beyond nothing works / Francis T. Cullen
- The rise of evidence-based policing : targeting, testing, and tracking / Lawrence W. Sherman
- Longitudinal and experimental research in criminology / David Farrington