The Criminal Justice System Politics and Policies

by Cole, George F.; Gertz, Marc G.; Bunger, Amy

• ISBN13: 9780534594725
• ISBN10: 0534594727
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-05
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

I POLITICS AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE	1	(102)
Two Models of the Criminal Process	9	(15)
Herbert L. Packer
Toward a Theory of Street-Level Bureaucracy	24	(18)
Michael Lipsky
Racial Politics, Racial Disparities, and the War on Crime	42	(17)
Michael Tonry
The Media, Moral Panics and the Politics of Crime Control	59	(21)
Ted Chiricos
Criminal Justice, Legal Values and the Rehabilitative Ideal	80	(9)
Francis A. Allen
Congress, Symbolic Politics and the Evolution of the 1994 ``Violence against Women Act''	89	(14)
Barbara Ann Stolz
II POLICE	103	(92)
Police Discretion Not to Invoke the Criminal Process: Low -- Visibility Decisions in the Administration of Justice	109	(18)
Joseph Goldstein
Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety	127	(13)
James Q. Wilson
George Kelling
A Sketch of the Policeman's ``Working Personality''	140	(18)
Jerome H. Skolnick
General Deterrent Effects of Police Patrol in Crime ``Hot Spots'': A Randomized, Controlled Trial	158	(21)
Lawrence W. Sherman
David Weisburd
Police Use of Deadly Force: Research and Reform	179	(16)
James J. Fyfe
III PROSECUTION	195	(38)
The Decision to Prosecute	200	(11)
George F. Cole
Adapting to Plea Bargaining Prosecutors	211	(22)
Milton Heumann
IV DEFENSE ATTORNEYS	233	(46)
The Practice of Law as Confidence Game: Organization Co-Operation of a Profession	238	(16)
Abraham S. Blumberg
Indigent Defenders Get the Job Done and Done Well	254	(25)
Roger A. Hanson
Brian J. Ostrom
V COURTS	279	(82)
The Criminal Court Community in Erie Country, Pennsylvania	285	(22)
James Eisenstein
Roy B. Flemming
Peter F. Nardulli
The Process Is the Punishment: Handling Cases in a Lower Criminal Court	307	(12)
Malcolm M. Feeley
Race and Sentencing	319	(14)
Samual Walker
Cassia Spohn
Miriam DeLone
Maintaining the Myth of the Individualized Justice: Probation Presentence Reports	333	(16)
John Rosecrance
Does the Public Support the Death Penalty?	349	(12)
Mark Costanzo
VI CORRECTIONS	361	(78)
Between Prison and Probation: Toward a Comprehensive Punishment System	366	(14)
Norval Morris
Michael Tonry
Further Exploration of the Flight from Discretion: The Role of Risk/Need Instruments in Probation Supervision Decisions	380	(16)
Anne L. Schneider
Laurie Ervin
Zoann Synder-Joy
The Society of Captives: The Defects of Total Power	396	(15)
Gresham M. Sykes
Well-Governed Prisons Are Possible	411	(10)
John J. Dilulio, Jr.
What Works? Questions and Answers about Prison Reform	421	(18)
Robert Martinson
VII POLICY PERSPECTIVES	439
Legalization Madness	442
James A. Inciardi
Christine A. Saum
Crime-Fighting and Urban Renewal	450
Eli Lehrer
Putting Justice Back into Criminal Justice: Notes for a Liberal Criminal Justice Policy	459
Samuel Walker
George F. Cole