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Author: Craig Haney
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis hard-hitting book challenges current prison practice and points to ways psychologists and policy makers can strive for a more humane justice system.
Author: Deirdre Golash
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2006-10
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 0814731848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGolash addresses the value of punishment in contemporary society.
Author: Michael E. Smith
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brandon Garrett
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-09-25
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0674970993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn awakening -- Inevitability of innocence -- Mercy vs. justice -- The great American death penalty decline -- The defense lawyering effect -- Murder insurance -- The other death penalty -- The execution decline -- End game -- The triumph of mercy
Author: Sue Rex
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1134042981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book sets out to explore the role of community penalties in sentencing, arguing that the absence of a strong intellectual framework or underpinning has hampered their development in policy and practice. The research undertaken for this book involved asking people with a particular stake in criminal justice what the point of punishment was and what the courts were trying to achieve in sentencing offenders. It identifies the role of communication as crucial, and looks at ways in which 'communication' can be used to make punishment more constructive, exploring the role of restorative processes and considering the implications of the custody-community provisions in the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Reforming Community Penalties is a major contribution to penological theory and thinking about sentencing and role in criminal justice, and will be essential reading for all with a practitioner or academic interest in this subject. Its findings are likely to play a key role in aiding the development and practice of community penalties, and enabling them to command greater support, and to become a genuine alternative to the increasing use of custody in sentencing and punishment.
Author: Robert Johnson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2016-06-02
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 1119082811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated version of the highly successful text addressing the origins, evolution, and promise of America’s penal system. Draws from both ethnographic and professional material, and situates the prison experience within both contemporary and historical contexts Features first person accounts from male and female inmates and staff, revealing what it’s actually like to live and work in prison Includes all-new chapters on prison reform and on supermax correctional facilities, including the latest research on confinement, long-term segregation, and death row Explores a wide range of topics, including the nature of prison as punishment; prisoner personality types and coping strategies; gang violence; prison officers’ custodial duties; and psychological, educational, and work programs Develops policy recommendations for the future based on qualitative and quantitative research and evidence-based initiatives
Author: William R. Kelly
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-05-05
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0231539223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past forty years, the criminal justice system in the United States has engaged in a very expensive policy failure, attempting to punish its way to public safety, with dismal results. So-called "tough on crime" policies have not only failed to effectively reduce crime, recidivism, and victimization but also created an incredibly inefficient system that routinely fails the public, taxpayers, crime victims, criminal offenders, their families, and their communities. Strategies that focus on behavior change are much more productive and cost effective for reducing crime than punishment, and in this book, William R. Kelly discusses the policy, process, and funding innovations and priorities that the United States needs to effectively reduce crime, recidivism, victimization, and cost. He recommends proactive, evidence-based interventions to address criminogenic behavior; collaborative decision making from a variety of professions and disciplines; and a focus on innovative alternatives to incarceration, such as problem-solving courts and probation. Students, professionals, and policy makers alike will find in this comprehensive text a bracing discussion of how our criminal justice system became broken and the best strategies by which to fix it.
Author: Michael H. Tonry
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 019510787X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Sue Rex
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1134034024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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. These proposals for reform amount to the single most ambitious and comprehensive set of proposals for reconstituting the sentencing system of a common-law country, and include proposals to replace existing sentencing statutes, the establishment of a sentencing commission and sentencing guidelines, and the creation of a sentence review function in the judiciary. As well as addressing the major issues of the Halliday Report the chapters in this book go beyond this to explore the broader set of policy problems and implications which are raised, drawing upon experiences of reform in other jurisdictions and contexts, particularly that of the USA. This book will be essential reading for anybody with an interest in the future of sentencing or the future direction of the criminal justice system as a whole.
Author: Nick Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-03-24
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1107007542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains that penitentiaries were originally designed to bring about penance, and that this has been lost in the assembly line of mass incarceration.
