Public Policy, Crime, and Criminal Justice

by Hancock, Barry W.; Sharp, Paul M.

• ISBN13: 9780130206152
• ISBN10: 0130206156
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

For upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in Public Affairs, Criminology, Criminal Justice, Political Science, Police Studies, and Public Administration. This unique anthology exposes students to a collection of original works that provide a bridge between issues related to public policy. Students are exposed to a whole-system view of policy, crime, and criminal justice.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgment	ix
Part I Public Policy and Crime	1	(116)
The Public Policy Process in the United States	5	(18)
William P. Hojnacki
Public Policy and Criminology: An Historical and Philosophical Reassessment	23	(14)
James F. Gilsinan
Science, Public Policy, and the Career Paradigm	37	(17)
Michael Gottfredson
Travis Hirschi
Crime, Justice, and the Social Environment	54	(17)
Elliott Currie
At the Roots of Violence: The Progressive Decline and Dissolution of the Family	71	(10)
George P. Palermo
Douglas Simpson
Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System: A Summary	81	(16)
Joan Petersilia
The Intersection of Drug Use and Criminal Behavior: Results from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse	97	(20)
Lana Harrison
Joseph Gfroerer
Part II Public Policy and Criminal Justice	117	(264)
The Criminal Justice System
Two Models of the Criminal Justice System: An Organizational Perspective	123	(16)
Malcolm M. Feeley
The Desirability of Goal Conflict within the Criminal Justice System	139	(12)
Kevin N. Wright
Law Enforcement
Policing the Ghetto Underclass: The Politics of Law and Law Enforcement	151	(22)
William J. Chambliss
Developing Police Policy: An Evaluation of the Control Principle	173	(14)
Geoffrey P. Alpert
William C. Smith
Who Ya Gonna Call? The Police as Problem-Busters	187	(16)
John E. Eck
William Spelman
Transforming the Police	203	(24)
Stephen D. Mastrofski
Craig D. Uchida
The Courts
Priority Prosecution of High-Rate Dangerous Offenders	227	(13)
Marcia R. Chaiken
Jan M. Chaiken
The Capacity of Courts as Policy-Making Forums	240	(17)
Christopher E. Smith
Court Clerks, Court Administrators, and Judges: Conflict in Managing the Courts	257	(8)
G. Larry Mays
William A. Taggart
Corrections
Sentencing Reform and Correctional Policy: Some Unaswered Questions	265	(15)
Edward E. Rhine
The Limits of Punishment as Social Policy	280	(15)
Don C. Gibbons
Adapting Conservative Correctional Policies to the Economic Realities of the 1990s	295	(13)
Alida V. Merlo
Peter J. Benekos
The Greatest Correctional Myth: Winning the War on Crime through Incarceration	308	(14)
Joseph W. Rogers
Juvenile Justice
Serious and Violent Juvenile Crime: A Comprehensive Strategy	322	(15)
John J. Wilson
James C. Howell
Youth Gangs and Public Policy	337	(12)
C. Ronald Huff
A Policy Maker's Guide to Controlling Delinquency and Crime through Family Interventions	349	(16)
Kevin N. Wright
Karen E. Wright
Emerging Trends and Issues in Juvenile Justice	365	(16)
Michael F. Aloisi
Part III Trends in Public Policy, Crime, and Criminal Justice	381	(66)
Policy Relevance and the Future of Crimninology	383	(13)
Joan Petersilia
Crime Control as Human Rights Enforcement	396	(11)
Robert Elias
Moving into the New Millenium: Toward a Feminist Vision of Justice	407	(13)
M. Kay Harris
Confronting Crime: Looking toward the Twenty-First Century	420	(16)
Elliott Currie
Beyond the Fear of Crime: Reconciliation as the Basis for Criminal Justice Policy	436	(11)
Russ Immarigeon
Epilogue	447