Guidelines Manual
Author | : United States Sentencing Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Criminal justice, Administration of |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States Sentencing Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Criminal justice, Administration of |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elizabeth Jeglic |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 767 |
Release | : 2021-12-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3030775658 |
This handbook provides a holistic and comprehensive examination of issues related to criminal justice reform in the United States from a multidisciplinary perspective. Divided into five key domains of reform in the criminal justice system, it analyzes: - Policing - Policy and sentencing - Reentry - Treatment - Alternatives to incarceration Each section provides a history and overview of the domain within the criminal justice system, followed by chapters discussing issues integral to reform. The volume emphasizes decreasing incarceration and minimizing racial, ethnic and economic inequalities. Each section ends with tangible recommendations, based on evidence-based approaches for reform. Of interest to researchers, scholars, activists and policy makers, this unique volume offers a pathway for the future of criminal justice reform in the United States.
Author | : Sandra Shane-DuBow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Prison sentences |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael H. Tonry |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Alternatives to imprisonment |
ISBN | : 019510787X |
The articles in this collection originally appeared in the journal “Overcrowded Times”. They provide an overview of sentencing policy, practices, and institution in the United States, other English-speaking countries (Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand & South Africa), and Europe.
Author | : Michael Tonry |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 1997-04-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0195344456 |
Sentencing and corrections issues are much the same in every Western nation. Increasingly, countries are importing policies and practices that have succeeded elsewhere. In that spirit, this volume brings together articles on sentencing reform in the United States, other English-speaking countries, and Western Europe, all written by leading national and international authorities on sentencing and punishment policy, practices, and institutions. Timely and readable, many of these essays provide brief yet detailed sentencing policy histories for countries and states. Others offer concise overviews of research on racial disparities, public opinion, and evaluation of the effects of new policies. Together, they illustrate the radical, precipitate, and hyperpoliticized nature of American sentencing reform in the last twenty-five years. Sentencing Reform in Overcrowded Times: A Comparative Perspective fills a major gap in the academic and policy literatures on this subject, and will be essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners.
Author | : Sandra Shane-DuBow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Prison sentences |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael O'Hear |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2017-03-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains unprecedentedly high. This book provides the first comprehensive survey of these reforms and explains why they have proven to be ineffective. After many decades of stability, the imprisonment rate in the United States quintupled between 1973 and 2003. Since then, nearly all states have adopted multiple reforms intended to reduce imprisonment, but the U.S. imprisonment rate has only decreased by a paltry 2 percent. Why have American sentencing reforms since 2000 been largely ineffective? Are tough mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders the primary reason our prisons are always full? This book offers a fascinating assessment of the wave of sentencing reforms adopted by dozens of states as well as changes at the federal level since 2000, identifying common themes among seemingly disparate changes in sentencing policy and highlighting recent reform efforts that have been more successful and may point the way forward for the nation as a whole. In The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform, Michael O'Hear exposes the myths that American prison sentencing reforms enacted in the 21st century have failed to have the expected effect because U.S. prisons are filled to capacity with nonviolent drug offenders as a result of the "war on drugs" or because of new laws that took away the discretion of judges and corrections officials. O'Hear then makes a convincing case for the real reasons sentencing reforms have come up short: because they exclude violent and sexual offenders, and because they rely on the discretion of officials who still have every incentive to be highly risk-averse. He also highlights how overlooking the well-being of offenders and their families in our consideration of sentencing reform has undermined efforts to effect real change.
Author | : U S Conference of Catholic Bishops |
Publisher | : USCCB Publishing |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781574553949 |
In this timely work, the bishops open a new dialogue on crime and justice in the United States.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1004 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Sentences (Criminal procedure) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rachel Elise Barkow |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2019-03-04 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674919238 |
America’s criminal justice system reflects irrational fears stoked by politicians seeking to win election. Pointing to specific policies that are morally problematic and have failed to end the cycle of recidivism, Rachel Barkow argues that reform guided by evidence, not politics and emotions, will reduce crime and reverse mass incarceration.