Thinking about Crime

Michael Tonry

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• In this wide-ranging analysis, Michael Tonry argues that those responsible for crafting America's criminal justice policy have lost their way in a for... Lees meer

The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment

Franklin E Zimring

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment ... Lees meer

City That Became Safe

Franklin E Zimring

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• The forty-percent drop in crime that occurred across the U.S. from 1991 to 2000 remains largely an unsolved mystery. Even more puzzling is the eighty-... Lees meer

Incapacitation

Franklin Zimring, Gordon Hawkins

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• The one, sure way that imprisonment prevents crime is by restraining offenders from committing crimes while they are locked up. Called "incapacitation... Lees meer

Children of the Prison Boom

Sara Wakefield, Christopher Wildeman

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• An unrelenting prison boom, marked by stark racial disparities, pulled a disproportionate number of young black men into prison in the last forty year... Lees meer

The Partisan Politics of Law and Order

Georg Wenzelburger

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• Whereas some Western democracies have turned toward substantially tougher law and order policies, others have not. How can we account for this discrep... Lees meer

Changing the Guard

David H Bayley

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• Every day the American government, the United Nations, and other international institutions send people into non-English speaking, war-torn, and often... Lees meer

Street Gang Patterns and Policies

Malcolm W Klein, Cheryl L Maxson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• In the past two decades, many prevention and suppression programs have been initiated on a national and local level to combat street gangs--but what d... Lees meer

Punishing Race

Tonry

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal pris... Lees meer

The Toughest Beat

Page

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars. As our prison population has exploded, 'law and order' interest groups have also grown -... Lees meer

Restorative Justice & Responsive Regulation

John Braithwaite

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• Braithwaite's argument against punitive justice systems and for restorative justice systems establishes that there are good theoretical and empirical ... Lees meer

Gun Violence

Philip J Cook, Jens Ludwig

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• 100 billion dollars. That is the annual cost of gun violence in America according to the authors of this landmark study, a book destined to change the... Lees meer

Street Gang Patterns and Policies

Malcolm W Klein, Cheryl L Maxson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• In the past two decades, many prevention and suppression programs have been initiated on a national and local level to combat street gangs--but what d... Lees meer

Sentencing Fragments

Michael Tonry

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• Almost everyone agrees--Right on Crime, the ACLU, Koch Industries, George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the editorial boards of the New York Times ... Lees meer

Of One-Eyed and Toothless Miscreants

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• Can punishments ever meaningfully be proportioned in severity to the seriousness of the crimes for which they are imposed? A great deal of attention h... Lees meer

Police and Community in Chicago

Wesley G Skogan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• Highly popular with both the public and political leaders, community policing is the most important development in law enforcement in the last twenty-... Lees meer

Responding to Troubled Youth

Cheryl L Maxson, Malcolm W Klein

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• This book provides an overview of the dominant philosophical approaches and practices in handling status offenders--those children who habitually resi... Lees meer

City That Became Safe

Franklin E Zimring

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• The forty-percent drop in crime that occurred across the U.S. from 1991 to 2000 remains largely an unsolved mystery. Even more puzzling is the eighty-... Lees meer

Sentencing Matters

Michael Tonry

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• Michael Tonry, an internationally recognized authority on criminology, offers in these pages a comprehensive overview of current research, policy deve... Lees meer

Juvenile Justice in the Making

David S Tanenhaus

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• In his engaging narrative history of the rise and workings of America's first juvenile court, David S. Tanenhaus explores the fundamental and enduring... Lees meer

Punishing Race

Michael Tonry

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal pris... Lees meer

Making Public Places Safer

Brandon C Welsh, David P Farrington

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• The United Kingdom has more than 4.2 million public closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras-one for every fourteen citizens. Across the United States... Lees meer

The Toughest Beat

Joshua Page

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars. As our prison population has exploded, 'law and order' interest groups have also grown -... Lees meer

Community Policing, Chicago Style

Wesley G Skogan, Susan M Hartnett

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• Police departments across the country are busily "reinventing" themselves, adopting a new style known as "community policing". This approach to polici... Lees meer