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Despite the perennial claims of politicians that our courts are coddling hardened criminals, the fact is that America already sends a higher proportion of its citizens to prison--and for longer terms--than any other western nation. To quote the Canadian House of Commons's Committee on Justice, "If locking up those who violate the law contributed to safer societies, then the United States should be the safest country in the world." Yet despite ...

This handbook offers a comprehensive examination of crimes as public policy subjects to provide an authoritative overview of current knowledge about the nature, scale, and effects of diverse forms of criminal behavior and of efforts to prevent and control them. Michael Tonry, a leading authority on criminology, has brought together twenty-four of the most distinguished active scholars in the field to present a wide-ranging overview and analysi...

Using a fresh approach, this Oxford Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of crimes as public policy subjects to provide an authoritative overview of current knowledge about the nature, scale, and effects of diverse forms of criminal behavior and of efforts to prevent and control them. Michael Tonry, a leading authority on criminology, has brought together twenty-four of the most distinguished active scholars in the field to present a wi...

Why Punish? How Much? is a collection of key readings on punishment and its effects on individuals and society as a whole. In addition to both classic and contemporary writings on normative theories by philosophers and penal theorists, it includes sections on restorative justice, on how people think about punishment, and on social theories about the functions punishment performs in human societies.

Why Punish? How Much? is a collection of key readings on punishment and its effects on individuals and society as a whole. In addition to both classic and contemporary writings on normative theories by philosophers and penal theorists, it includes sections on restorative justice, on how people think about punishment, and on social theories about the functions punishment performs in human societies.

Michael Tonry traces four decades of American sentencing policy and practice to illuminate the convoluted sentencing system, from early reforms in the mid-1970's to the transition towards harsher sentences in the mid-1980's. Combining a history of policy with an examination of current research findings regarding the consequences of the sentencing system, Sentencing Fragments calls attention to its devastatingly unjust effects on the lives of t...

Punishing Race addresses enduring paradoxes of racial disparities in America and the problems of race in the criminal justice system. The white majority, Tonry observes, has a remarkable capacity to endure the suffering of disadvantaged black and, increasingly, Hispanic men. The criminal justice system is the latest in a series of devices, including slavery, Jim Crow, and legally countenanced discrimination, that have maintained white dominanc...

A comprehensive and accesible overview of the operation of the American criminal justice system, The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Criminal Justice covers a wide range of issues, making it an important reference for students and scholars in criminal justice, law, and public policy.

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Youth violence has become one of the most contentious and perplexing issues in current debates on crime policy, not the least because of the sharp increase in violence among young minority males since the mid-1980s. Featuring articles by leading American and European scholars from many fields, "Youth Violence" provides a reliable, up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive overview of policy issues and research developments concerning crime ...

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Offers a comprehensive look at criminal justice policies, practices, and research in the Nordic countries. This title covers topics that range from the history of violence through juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, and sentencing to controversial contemporary policies on prostitution, victims, and organized crime.

For the American criminal justice system, 1975 was a watershed year. Offender rehabilitation and individualized sentencing fell from favor. The partisan politics of "law and order" took over. This book tells how policy and knowledge did and did not interact over time and charts prospects for the future.

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Volume 6 is essential reading for scholars and researcher's who need a general knowledge about crime, its causes, and its cures. Readers will find a wide variety of topics in this volume, including prison crowding, the turnabout in the insanity defense, delinquency careers, the prediction of dangerousness and criminological research in Scandinavia.