Crime and Justice

by Tonry, Michael H.

• ISBN13: 9780226808758
• ISBN10: 0226808750
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

"The research presented in volume 37 of Crime and Justice is essential reading for scholars, policy makers, and criminal justice practitioners who need an authoritative review of current developments on crime, its causes, and its consequences. Through an international and disciplinary approach to core issues in criminology, the essays analyze important developments in the criminal justice system to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Michael Tonry is director of the Institute on Crime and Public Policy and the Sonofsky Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota. He is also a senior fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.

Table of Contents

Preface
The Malign Effects of Drug and Crime Control Policies on Black Americans	p. 1
Race, Racism, and Support for Capital Punishment	p. 45
The Effects of High Imprisonment Rates on Communities	p. 97
The Effects of Parental Imprisonment on Children	p. 133
California's Correctional Paradox of Excess and Deprivation	p. 207
Learning from the Limitations of Deterrence Research	p. 279
Trust, Welfare, and Political Culture: Explaining Differences in National Penal Policies	p. 313
Economists' Contribution to the Study of Crime and the Criminal Justice System	p. 389
How Well Do Criminologists Explain Crime? Statistical Modeling in Published Studies	p. 453
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