Criminal justice law

For most of the 20th Century, sentencing purposes and procedures were virtually the same in all American jurisdictions.

Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Warren McCleskey.

Research on prisons prior to the prison boom of the 1980s and 1990s focused mainly on inmate subcultures, inmate rights, and sociological interpretations of inmate and guard adaptations to their environment, with qualitative studies and ethnographic methods the norm.

Should public opinion determine--or even influence--sentencing policy and practice?

In the 1980s, a series of child sex abuse cases rocked the United States.

Criminology is a dynamic and evolving field of study.

Punishment policies and practices in the United States today are unprincipled, chaotic, and much too often unjust.

In the past two decades, many prevention and suppression programs have been initiated on a national and local level to combat street gangs--but what do we really know about them?

Theories of Delinquency is a comprehensive survey of the theoretical approaches towards understanding delinquent behavior.

Oscar, physically and sexually abusive, stabbed his partner and two stepdaughters to death, buried the bodies, and fled the state with his two younger children.

What happens when public prosecutors, the most powerful officials in the criminal justice system, seek convictions instead of justice?

In Genocide Denials and the Law, Ludovic Hennebel and Thomas Hochmann offer a thorough study of the relationship between law and genocide denial from the perspectives of specialists from six countries.

Although criminal justice systems in developed Western countries are much alike in form, structure, and function, the American system is unique.

Focusing contemporary democratic theory on the neglected topic of punishment, Punishment, Participatory Democracy, and the Jury argues for increased civic engagement in criminal justice as an antidote to the American penal state.

In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars.

In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars.

For nearly two centuries in the United States, the punishment of crime was largely aimed, in theory and in practice, at prevention, rehabilitation or incapacitation, and deterrence.

How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison?

Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years, as have the policy approaches to deal with it.

This book answers two basic but under-appreciated questions: first, how does the American criminal justice system address a defendant's family status?

Punishment, like all complex human institutions, tends to change as ways of thinking go in and out of fashion.

Oscar, physically and sexually abusive, stabbed his partner and two stepdaughters to death, buried the bodies, and fled the state with his two younger children.

Punishment policies and practices in the United States today are unprincipled, chaotic, and much too often unjust.

Many controversies in American criminal law reflect the tension between older and newer conceptions of the purposes of punishment.

Supreme Court interpretations of the Bill of Rights have produced seven constitutional "e;exclusionary rules.

The Cycle of Juvenile Justice takes a historical look at juvenile justice policies in the United States.

Theories of Delinquency is a comprehensive survey of the theoretical approaches towards understanding delinquent behavior.

Two centuries ago, American criminal justice was run primarily by laymen.

People convicted of crimes are subject to a criminal sentence, but they also face a host of other restrictive legal measures: Some are denied access to jobs, housing, welfare, the vote, or other goods.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) is the most widely used and accepted scheme for diagnosing mental disorders in the United States and beyond.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) is the most widely used and accepted scheme for diagnosing mental disorders in the United States and beyond.

Habeas Corpus in Wartime unearths and presents a comprehensive account of the legal and political history of habeas corpus in wartime in the Anglo-American legal tradition.

Psychiatric Expert Testimony: Emerging Applications is for practitioners who need to be at the cutting edge of admissibility in court.

Psychiatric Expert Testimony: Emerging Applications is for practitioners who need to be at the cutting edge of admissibility in court.

Although the issue of offender decision-making pervades almost every discussion of crime and law enforcement, only a few comprehensive texts cover and integrate information about the role of decision-making in crime.

Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years, as have the policy approaches to deal with it.

Working with Violent Men gives a detailed insight into working with men who have been violent towards intimate partners.

Over recent decades, tremendous advances in the prevention, medical treatment, and quality of life issues in children and adolescents surviving cancer have spawned a host of research on pediatric psychosocial oncology.

What happens when public prosecutors, the most powerful officials in the criminal justice system, seek convictions instead of justice?

In the past two decades, many prevention and suppression programs have been initiated on a national and local level to combat street gangs--but what do we really know about them?

Children with life-threatening and terminal illnesses--and their families--require a unique kind of care to meet a wide variety of needs.

Today, American mental health law and policy promote the restoring of "e;law and order"e; in the community rather than protecting civil liberties for the individual.

It has been said that how a society treats its least well-off members speaks volumes about its humanity.

Federal prosecutors have immense power and discretion to decide when to bring criminal charges, what plea bargains to offer, and how to implement the federal government's legal priorities in their districts.

Federal prosecutors have immense power and discretion to decide when to bring criminal charges, what plea bargains to offer, and how to implement the federal government's legal priorities in their districts.

The first collective work devoted exclusively to the ethical and penal theoretical considerations of the use of artificial intelligence at sentencing Is it morally acceptable to use artificial intelligence (AI) in the determination of sentences on those who have broken the law?

The first collective work devoted exclusively to the ethical and penal theoretical considerations of the use of artificial intelligence at sentencing Is it morally acceptable to use artificial intelligence (AI) in the determination of sentences on those who have broken the law?

Why mass incarceration endures in the face of reforms, and how to truly change America's vast criminal justice systemCritics on both the left and the right increasingly use the term "e;mass incarceration"e; to call attention to the unprecedented scale and inequities of the U.

Why mass incarceration endures in the face of reforms, and how to truly change America's vast criminal justice systemCritics on both the left and the right increasingly use the term "e;mass incarceration"e; to call attention to the unprecedented scale and inequities of the U.

The phenomenal growth of penal confinement in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century is still a public policy mystery.