Creating a New Criminal Justice System for the 21st Century
Creating a New Criminal Justice System for the 21st Century

Author: Ruzica Rosandic

Publisher:

Published: 2001-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780756710675

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This monograph is the second in a series of reports to highlight & document approaches & results of evaluations funded at state & local levels. It has been produced to make proven state & local programs more accessible to planners & practitioners alike. The document is divided into two parts. Part One provides descriptions & evaluations of programs in 7 states: Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Hampshire, Oregon, Illinois, Utah, & Oklahoma. Part Two is a summary of evaluations of state & local multi-jurisdictional task forces funded by the U.S. Justice Department.

Criminal Justice Today
Criminal Justice Today

Author: Frank Schmalleger

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780132739818

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Criminal Justice Today, 12/e, continues to lead as the gold-standard for criminal justice texts. Best-selling, student- and instructor-preferred, and time-tested--Schmalleger is the most current and popular text in the market. The text guides criminal justice students in the struggle to find a satisfying balance between freedom and security, and focuses on the crime picture in America and on the three traditional elements of the criminal justice system: police, courts, and corrections.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE TECHNOLOGY IN THE 21st CENTURY
CRIMINAL JUSTICE TECHNOLOGY IN THE 21st CENTURY

Author: Laura J. Moriarty

Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher

Published: 2017-01-09

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 039809151X

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This third edition, arriving nearly 12 years after the previous one, is not only timely but overdue. This text offers a welcome and appropriate mixture of knowledge or information about specific types of technology along with empirical studies of certain technology used in various subcomponents of the criminal justice system. This text consists of 12 chapters, with eight completely new and four substantially revised and updated. The text is arranged into two parts: law enforcement technology and public safety technology. Major topics include: technology infrastructure: what it is and how it’s changing; current overview of law enforcement technology; body-worn cameras: the new normal; avoiding the technological panacea of the body-worn camera; examining perceptions of technology-enabled crimes; digital forensics; technological advancements in keeping victims safe; the evolution of offender electronic monitoring: from radio signals to satellite technology; technoprisons: technology and prisons; inside the Darknet: techno-crime and criminal opportunity; securing cyberspace in the 21st century; and assessing the deployment of automated license place recognition technology and strategies to improve public safety. Numerous illustrations and tables highlight the chapter contents. Students, educators, and practitioners will find this new edition most useful as it provides practical knowledge about different technology advances and projections on many levels. This third edition has developed into an excellent resource that allows both neophyte and expert to learn state-of-the-art information.

Smart Decarceration
Smart Decarceration

Author: Matthew Epperson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-09-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0190653116

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Smart Decarceration is a forward-thinking, practical volume that provides innovative concepts and concrete strategies for ushering in an era of decarceration -- a proactive and effective undoing of the era of mass incarceration. The text grapples with tough questions and takes up the challenge of transforming America's approach to criminal justice in the 21st century. This timely work consists of chapters written from multiple perspectives and disciplines including advocates, researchers, academics, practitioners, and persons with incarceration histories who are now leaders in the movement. The primary purpose of this book is to inform both academic and public understanding -- to place the challenge of smart decarceration at the center of the current national discourse, taking into account the realities of the current sociopolitical context -- and to propose beginning action steps. This is achieved by first outlining and addressing questions such as: What if incarceration were not an option for most?; Whose voices are essential in this era of decarceration?; What is the state of evidence for solutions?; How do we generate and adopt empirically driven reforms?; How do we redefine and rethink justice in the United States? Smart Decarceration offers a way forward in building a field for decarceration through provocative but reasoned challenges to existing approaches to criminal justice reforms, lively focus on potential solutions, and action steps for reform.

Law Enforcement in the 21st Century
Law Enforcement in the 21st Century

Author: Heath B. Grant

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780205542970

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Law Enforcement in the 21st Century is the first book to examine the " linkage blindness" in the criminal justice system (the lack of connection between theories of policing and what actually happens in police departments), making linkages between theory and police practice through problem-solving and crime mapping applications. It offers a fresh, new approach to presenting introductory law enforcement material that is both practical for the future law enforcement officer and intellectually rewarding for readers who may be entering a whole new field of study. The authors have organized the material in a developmental framework beginning with a discussion of law enforcement' s place within the criminal justice system and a discussion of the origins of policing; the reader is then introduced to the traditional model of policing and the core aspects of the work-- organizational structure and units, field operations, and investigations. The authors provide information important to law enforcement in the 21st century, including topics such as terrorism and the latest technology.

Doing Justice, Preventing Crime
Doing Justice, Preventing Crime

Author: Michael Tonry

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0195320506

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"In the 2020s, no informed person disagrees that punishment policies and practices in the United States are unprincipled, chaotic, and much too often unjust. The financial costs are enormous. The moral cost is greater: countless individual injustices; mass incarceration; the world's highest imprisonment rate; extreme disparities, especially affecting members of racial and ethnic minority groups; high rates of wrongful conviction; assembly line case processing; and a general absence of respectful consideration of offenders' interests, circumstances, and needs. The main ideas in this book about doing justice and preventing crime are simple: Treat people charged with and convicted of crimes justly, fairly, and even-handedly, as anyone would want done for themselves or their children. Take sympathetic account of the circumstances of peoples' lives. Punish no one more severely than he or she deserves. Those propositions are implicit in the Rule of Law and its requirement that the human dignity of every person be respected. Three major structural changes are needed. First, selection of judges and prosecutors, and their day-to-day work, must be insulated from political influence. Second, mandatory minimum sentence, three-strikes, life without parole, truth in sentencing, and similar laws must be repealed. Third, correctional and prosecution systems must be centralized in unified state agencies"--