-The book's final chapter examines possible future imporvements in correctional policies and practices. --Book Jacket.
Context and Consequences Francis T. Cullen, Cheryl Lero Jonson. criminologists rarely get asked to do anything, but universities like to have influential scholars stop by and give talks on their research. They even pay them to do so.
Distinctive Features * Surveys the pivotal works of leading scholars in the field of criminology, from the earliest female criminologists to contemporary scholars, providing a thorough examination of women and crime from the past to the ...
Policing Theory (First Edition)
Policing Theory (First Edition)
New York, NY: Harper & Row. (Original work published 1844) Tocqueville, A. de. (1969). Democracy in America (J.P. Mayer, Ed., & G. Lawrence, Trans.). New York, NY: Harper & Row. (Original work published 1835 and 1840) Tonry, M. (1996).
Delinquency and Drift Revisited reminds criminologists that they ignore Matza's writings on culture and criminality, human agency and offending, and propensity and peer influences on criminal involvement at their own intellectual peril.
This is a glaring omission given the risk of mass imprisonment, the increasing presence of police in inner-city communities, and the emergence of new policy initiatives aimed at improving the quality and effectiveness of the administration ...
Biography and Time Periods of Richard Quinney During our phone interview, Quinney graciously provided extensive and ... to my writing about Erich Fromm and crime (2000a) and various peacemaking and critical criminology oriented themes, ...
" In the current environment, deterrence arguments are routinely used to justify policies that do just the opposite. Ray Paternoster, who contributed two chapters, passed away as this volume was being finalized.
The Ford Pinto trial. In F. Y. Bailey & S. Chermak (Eds.), Famous American crimes and trials (Vol. 5, 1981–2000, pp. 73–91). New York, NY: Praeger. Coleman, J. W. (1987). Toward an integrated theory of white-collar crime.
The American Prison: Imagining a Different Future, by Francis T. Cullen, Cheryl, Lero Johnson, and Mary K. Stohr, pulls together established correctional scholars to imagine what this prison future might entail.
Criminology, 28, 369—404. Brown v. Plata, 563 US. (2011) Clear, T. R. (1994). Harm in American penology: Offenders, victims and their communities. Albany: State University of New York Press. Cullen, F. T., 8: Gendreau, P. (2001).
Bottoms, Anthony, and Justice Tankebe. 2012. “Beyond Procedural Justice: A Dialogic Approach to Legitimacy in Criminal Justice. ... Crime and Justice in America, 1975 to 2025—Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Vol. 42.
This volume is an attempt to be at the forefront of engaging in this conversation about the future of the American prison. In 13 chapters, the authors ask established correctional scholars to imagine what this prison future might entail.
" In the current environment, deterrence arguments are routinely used to justify policies that do just the opposite. Ray Paternoster, who contributed two chapters, passed away as this volume was being finalized.
"The text is an incredible composite of the literature that has shaped correctional practice.
This fine volume insures that their life experiences will not be forgotten. The volume shows criminology to be a human enterprise. Ideas are not driven primarily—and often not at all—by data.
This volume was not written to pay homage to Matza, but to show how his ideas remain relevant to criminology today by continuing to question conventional wisdom, by making us pay attention to realities we have overlooked, and by inspiring ...