29 Trafficking 80 49 6 20 Other drug offenses 64 29 4 36 Source: Reaves 2013, tables 24–26. 1000 years and more have been given recently in cases of rape, robbery, and assault.” American judges and legislators under indeterminate ...
In the June 2002 case of Daryl Atkins, a Virginia man with an IQ of fifty-nine, the Supreme Court decided that a “national consensus” now exists that mentally retarded offenders are categorically less culpable than the average offender ...
This volume includes an accessible introduction that chronicles the development of punishment systems and theorizing over the course of the last two centuries. Why Punish?
"Overcrowded times : solving the prison problem," a publication published : Castine, Me. : Published for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation by Castine Research Corp., 1990-1999--[taken from OCLC record].
"Stimulating, informative and accessible." -- LCCJ Newsletter
Fines in Sentencing Working Paper no. ... Norval Morris and Michael Tonry, Between Prison and Probation: Intermediate Punishments in a Rational Sentencing System (New York: ... Douglas McDonald, Punishment Without Walls: Community ...
A definitive guide to imprisonment policies for the future, this volume convincingly demonstrates how we can prevent crime more effectively at lower economic and human cost.
This handbook offers a comprehensive examination of crimes as public policy subjects to provide an authoritative overview of current knowledge about the nature, scale, and effects of diverse forms of criminal behaviour and of efforts to ...
Consisting of 28 articles, this comprehensive reference work on the study of crime, examines: its causes, effects, trends, and institutions, current philosophies of punishment and ways of controlling crime.
The 11 essays in this volume provide the first English-language survey of the Dutch criminal justice system, which has been the basis for many important international research initiatives, including many in the United States.
Since 1979 the Crime and Justice series has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and...
This title provides comprehensive analyses of current knowledge about the unwarranted disparities in dealings with the criminal justice system faced by some disadvantaged minority groups in all developed countries
The Sentencing Commission and Its Guidelines
Presents a global view on youth justice systems, examining Canada, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, and other Western countries.
“High-Tech Abuse and Crime on College and University Campuses: Evolving Forms of Victimization, Offending, and Their Interplay in Higher Education.” In Campus Crime: Legal, Social and Policy Perspectives, 2nd ed., edited by Bonnie ...
The goal of Crime and Justice, Volume 36 is to advance the understanding of the determinants of penal policies in developed countries.
Essays cover nineteenth-century urban crime, police organization, crime control, relations between federal and local police, information technology, and community policing
The articles in this collection originally appeared in the journal “Overcrowded Times”.
Essays cover nineteenth-century urban crime, police organization, crime control, relations between federal and local police, information technology, and community policing
Prediction and Classification: Criminal Justice Decision Making, a collection of commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars, is the ninth volume in the Crime and Justice series.