The Criminal Justice System: Politics and Policies
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This reader for students in criminal justice, political science, and sociology courses contains 24 classic and contemporary articles on how American politics and policies affect the criminal justice system. The articles are arranged into seven sections, each with an introduction by the editors. A sampling of topics includes the 1994 "Violence against Women Act," police use of deadly force, race and sentencing, public support of the death penalty, plea bargaining, and prison reform. Annotation © Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
IPolitics and the administration of justice11Two models of the criminal process92Racial politics, racial disparities, and the war on crime243The media, moral panics, and the politics of crime control414Criminal justice, legal values, and the rehabilitative ideal62IIPolice715Police discretion not to invoke the criminal process : low-visibility decisions in the administration of justice776Broken windows : the police and neighborhood safety967A sketch of the policeman's "working personality"1098The preventive effects of arrest on intimate partner violence1279Police use of deadly force : research and reform152IIIThe adversarial process16910The decision to prosecute17811Adapting to plea bargaining : prosecutors18912The practice of law as confidence game : organization co-optation of a profession21113Indigent defenders get the job done and done well227IVCourts25114The criminal court community in Erie County, Pennsylvania25715The process is the punishment : handling cases in a lower criminal court28016Maintaining the myth of individualized justice : probation presentence reports292VCorrections30917Between prison and probation : toward a comprehensive punishment system31418Racial disproportion in US prisons32819The society of captives : the defects of total power34920Mature coping : the challenge of adjustment in contemporary prisons36521Well-governed prisons are possible38722What works? : questions and answers about prison reform39723Reentry reconsidered : a new look at an old question415VIPolicy perspectives43524Black man's burden : race and the death penalty in America43925Unintended consequences of politically popular sentencing policy : the homicide promoting effects of "three strikes" in U.S. cities (1980-1999)45626An overview of gun control policy in the United States47027Between politics and reason : drugs and crime48828Putting justice back into criminal justice : notes for a liberal criminal justice policy502
