Books written by Michael Tonry
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Human Development and Criminal Behavior: New Ways of Advancing Knowledge
This work offers a blueprint for research to eluci- date and possibly prevent crime in our society.
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Human Development and Criminal Behavior: New Ways of Advancing Knowledge
Human Development and Criminal Behavior: New Ways of Advancing Knowledge
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Doing Justice, Preventing Crime
... 70% Property 44% 16% 11% 16% 13% 72% MV Theft 38% 14% 11% 20% 17% 78% Burglary 39% 17% 13% 18% 13% 77% Drugs 34% 16% 13% 22% 15% 80% Source: Reaves (2013, Tables 7 and 10). Table 5.2 presents data on prior convictions and arrests.
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Human Development and Criminal Behavior: New Ways of Advancing Knowledge
This work offers a blueprint for research to eluci- date and possibly prevent crime in our society.
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Between Prison and Probation: Intermediate Punishments in a Rational Sentencing System
... of the National Institute of Corrections, Lloyd Ohlin of Harvard, Joan Petersilia of the Rand Corporation, Albert J. Reiss, Jr., of Yale, Kenneth Schoen of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, and Franklin Zimring of Berkeley.
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Malign Neglect: Race, Crime, and Punishment in America
The police chapter in the 1991 Race and Criminal Justice by Michael J. Lynch and E. Britt Patterson observes that " race appears to have little effect on the probability that police will take disputants into custody " and that " neither ...
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Between Prison and Probation: Intermediate Punishments in a Rational Sentencing System
Goldkamp, John S., and Michael R. Gottfredson. 1985. Policy Guidelines for Bail. Philadelphia:Temple University Press. Goldstein, Paul J. 1987. "Drugs and Violent Crime." In Drugs and Crime: Workshop Proceedings, edited by Jeffrey A.
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Punishment and Politics
... T. (2001) Drug Use and Offending: Summary Results From the First Year of the NEW-ADAM Research Programme. ... and Beck, A. (1999) 'Population Growth in U.S. Prisons, 1980– 1996', in M. Tonry and J. Petersilia (eds), Prisons.
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Punishment and Politics
The primary drivers of recent policies have rather been the emulation of recent USA policies (at a time when these are now being abandoned in the USA because they have been shown to be ineffective); and a media-driven agenda with a focus on ...
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Of One-eyed and Toothless Miscreants: Making the Punishment Fit the Crime?
Written by many of the leading thinkers on punishment, this volume dissects previously undeveloped issues related to considerations of deserved punishment and provides new ways to understand both the severities of punishment and the ...
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Sentencing Reform in Overcrowded Times: A Comparative Perspective
Preface Sentencing Reform in Overcrowded Times is a play on words . American sentencing policies have produced badly overcrowded prisons . On January 1 , 1996 , American prisons operated at 125 percent of their capacity , and prisons or ...
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Penal Reform in Overcrowded Times
There seemed a real prospect that system overcrowding , which had blighted the service since the end of World War II , might be a thing of the past . The prison service gained confidence . It had room in which to maneuver and to ...
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Reform and Punishment
In this book a group of leading authorities in the field address the key issues surrounding the future of sentencing in Britain, in the light particularly of the highly influential Halliday Report.
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The Handbook of Crime and Punishment
In Smart Sentencing: The Emergence of Intermediate Sanctions, edited by James M. Byrne, Arthur J. Lurigio, and Joan Petersilia. Newbury Park, Calif.; Sage. McDonald, Douglas, 1986. Punishment Without Walls: Community Service Sentences ...
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The Future of Imprisonment
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.
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The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Criminal Justice
This handbook's extensive coverage of the criminal justice system in the U.S. makes it an important reference for students and scholars in criminal justice, law, and public policy.
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Crime and Justice, Volume 41: Prosecutors and Politics: A Comparative Perspective
The series explores a full range of issues concerning crime, its causes, and its cure.
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Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries
This collection of original essays surveys the evolution of sentencing policies and practices in Western countries over the past twenty-five years.
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Crime and Justice, Volume 42: Crime and Justice in America: 1975-2025
The contributors to this volume, the leading scholars in their fields, bring unsurpassed breadth and depth of knowledge to bear in answering these questions.
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Doing Justice, Preventing Crime
A critic might accuse me of being insensitive to the suffering of victims of crimes. I'm not. Prevention of foreseeable harms, however, requires tradeoffs between interests and costs. There is no cost-free way to prevent bad ...