Crime and Punishment--changing Attitudes in America
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 171
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Crime and Punishment--changing Attitudes in America
Author: Arthur L. Stinchcombe
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChanging Attitudes to Punishment
Author: Julian Roberts
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1135988382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout the western world public opinion has played an important role in shaping criminal justice policy. At the same time opinion polls repeatedly demonstrate that the public knows little about crime and justice, and holds negative views of the criminal justice system. This book, consisting of chapters from leading authorities in the field, is concerned to address this problem, and draws upon research in a number of different countries to address the issues arising from this state of affairs. Its main aims are: to explore the changing and evolving nature of public attitudes to sentencing to examine the factors that influence public opinion and to bring together recent international research which has demonstrated ways in which public attitudes can be changed to propose specific strategies to respond to the crisis in public confidence in criminal justice.
Crime and Punishment in America
Author: Richard Clay Hanes
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780787691653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering the evolution of the American criminal justice system throughout history, the Crime and Punishment in America Reference Library explores everything from juvenile justice to organized crime. Crime and Punishment in America: Almanac examines key topics, including moral and religious beliefs, economic implications of crime and punishment, penology and reform, changing attitudes towards violence, the death penalty and more.
The Changing Attitude Towards the Death Penalty in the US
Author: Magdalena Öttl
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2020-11-20
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 3346299880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPre-University Paper from the year 2016 in the subject Law - Penology, grade: 1, , language: English, abstract: The aim of this paper is to describe to what extend the public opinion about capital punishment in the United States has changed and to outline the reasons for that. Based on the hypothesis that support has generally dropped, this paper provides an overview why and when support slowly started to decrease. The examinations are limited to approximately the last twenty-five years, and the three main chapters are structured according to the time periods of the then-ruling presidents. They respectively comprise information about the president’s death penalty policy, the changes in law, some incidents that have occurred, as well as the development in people’s attitude. Consequently, it can be concluded that more and more Americans oppose the death penalty as the system’s fallibility and inefficiency are becoming obvious. However, while moral positions have not changed significantly, the impossible flawlessness and expensive application of the death penalty triggered many shifts in opinion.
Crime and Punishment in American History
Author: Lawrence Friedman
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2010-11-05
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 1459608135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image.
Cruel and Unusual
Author: Anne-Marie Cusac
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009-03-17
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0300155492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe statistics are startling. Since 1973, America’s imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward criminals and punishment? What does it say about us? This book explores the cultural evolution of punishment practices in the United States. Anne-Marie Cusac first looks at punishment in the nation’s early days, when Americans repudiated Old World cruelty toward criminals and emphasized rehabilitation over retribution. This attitude persisted for some 200 years, but in recent decades we have abandoned it, Cusac shows. She discusses the dramatic rise in the use of torture and restraint, corporal and capital punishment, and punitive physical pain. And she links this new climate of punishment to shifts in other aspects of American culture, including changes in dominant religious beliefs, child-rearing practices, politics, television shows, movies, and more. America now punishes harder and longer and with methods we would have rejected as cruel and unusual not long ago. These changes are profound, their impact affects all our lives, and we have yet to understand the full consequences.
Thinking about Crime
Author: Michael H. Tonry
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 019530490X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeamlessly blending history with an easy presentation of day-to-day realities and empirical evidence, Tonry proposes tangible, specific solutions that can serve as a platform for the reform of a criminal justice system no one would knowingly have chosen yet one that no one seems able to change.
Social Psychology of Punishment of Crime
Author: Margit E. Oswald
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-06-15
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 1119161193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, research interest has increased both in the needs of punishment by the public and in the psychological processes underlying decisions on sentencing. This comprehensive look at the social psychology of punishment focuses on recent advances, and presents new findings based on the authors’ own empirical research. Chapters explore the application of social psychology and social cognitive theories to decision making in the context of punishments by judges and the punitiveness of laymen. The book also highlights the different legal systems in the UK, US and Europe, discussing how attitudes to punishment can change in the context of cultural and social development.
Harsh Justice
Author: James Q. Whitman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-04-14
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0198035314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCriminal punishment in America is harsh and degrading--more so than anywhere else in the liberal west. Executions and long prison terms are commonplace in America. Countries like France and Germany, by contrast, are systematically mild. European offenders are rarely sent to prison, and when they are, they serve far shorter terms than their American counterparts. Why is America so comparatively harsh? In this novel work of comparative legal history, James Whitman argues that the answer lies in America's triumphant embrace of a non-hierarchical social system and distrust of state power which have contributed to a law of punishment that is more willing to degrade offenders.
