California S Criminal Justice System

Author : Christine Gardiner,Pamela Fiber-Ostrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 1531004954

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California's Criminal Justice System by Christine Gardiner,Pamela Fiber-Ostrow Pdf

California¿s Criminal Justice System, Third Edition, shares the history, purpose, structure, and procedures of California¿s criminal justice system. It begins with conversations about the state of crime in California, the demographics of crime, and the practices of legislative actions and direct democracy in creating state laws. The book includes discussions of criminal justice policies as well as criminal justice institutions such as policing, courts, corrections, and the juvenile justice system. Each chapter is authored by an expert in the field and highlights some of the current issues, challenges, and controversies facing California¿s criminal justice system. The authors also highlight some of the current criminal justice policies and controversies within the state, including gun policy, sex crime policy, drug policy, capital punishment, realignment, gangs, and victims¿ rights. In addition, the authors include discussions on a variety of different employment opportunities related to criminal justice and the occupational outlook for these positions. This text is appropriate for undergraduate students in introductory courses on criminal justice, law, and government, and can be used either as a supplemental text or as a stand-alone resource for students.

Author : United States. National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : IND:30000068297823

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Criminal Justice System by United States. National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals Pdf

This manual contains the standards for reform in the management and operation of the criminal justice system, focusing on planning, education, and information systems. Planning for resource allocation is one of the most important functions that a criminal justice agency performs. The 1968 Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act required the creation of state criminal justice planning agencies and the development of annual state comprehensive plans as a contingency for state participation in federal criminal justice funding. In the initial section of this volume, the National Advisory Commission points out the need for additional planning at the metropolitan and regional levels, and indicates the necessity for quantifying performance objectives. It also stresses participation in the planning process by criminal justice agencies, government departments and private citizens. The Commission recommends the development of state integrated multiyear planning and the establishment of criminal justice coordinating councils by all major cities and counties. Other areas of concern to the Commission, in addition to management and budget planning, include systems analysis, information systems, evaluation, personnel training, and criminal code revision. These and other commission proposals appear in the form of specific standards and recommendations -- nearly 70 in all -- that spell out in detail what the segments of the criminal justice system-the police, courts, and correctional agencies can do to upgrade and modernize many of their functions. This manual is a reference work for the practitioner as well as the interested layman.

Author : Kay Whitlock,Nancy A. Heitzeg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520343474

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Carceral Con by Kay Whitlock,Nancy A. Heitzeg Pdf

Introduction : world-making and "criminal justice reform" -- Correctional control and the challenge of reform -- Follow the money -- Criminalization, policing, and profiling -- The slippery slope of pretrial reform -- Courts, sentencing, and "diversion" -- Imprisonment and release -- Threshold.

Author : George T. Felkenes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Law
ISBN : 0131930524

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The Criminal Justice System: Its Functions and Personnel by George T. Felkenes Pdf

This is a study of the duties, functions, qualifications, selection processes, and potential for advancement associated with law enforcement, courts, and correctional personnel. The specific roles and the personnel that comprise the operating criminal justice system are identified and analyzed in this study. Detailing not only duties and functions, but also qualifications, selection processes, and even potential for advancement, the work forms an unusual perspective of the field for students of law enforcement, police science, criminal law, criminology, and corrections. The study details over fifty-five distinct professions within the criminal justice system, and discusses the qualifications required and the tasks performed by each. A major section of the book is its examination of the prosecutorial function - the powers and duties, the major concepts and criticisms of the role of the prosecutor, and the multi-faceted role of the defense attorney, including his duties and professional responsibilities, as well as the function of court appointed counsels and public defenders. Law enforcement is viewed at every level from municipal through federal agencies, with a focus on police legal advisors, criminalists, and the numerous other individuals who comprise the total law enforcement complex. The function of the court is presented through the roles of the various court officers - judges, juries, grand juries, bailiffs, clerks, and reporters. Each is discussed in terms of qualifications, duties, and function in the mechanics of the courtroom procedure. A final section covers the corrections system - the custodial and institutional personnel, as well as the juvenile, probation and parole officers who work with offenders in the community.

Author : Miroslava Chavez-Garcia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520951556

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States of Delinquency by Miroslava Chavez-Garcia Pdf

This unique analysis of the rise of the juvenile justice system from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries uses one of the harshest states—California—as a case study for examining racism in the treatment of incarcerated young people of color. Using rich new untapped archives, States of Delinquency is the first book to explore the experiences of young Mexican Americans, African Americans, and ethnic Euro-Americans in California correctional facilities including Whittier State School for Boys and the Preston School of Industry. Miroslava Chávez-García examines the ideologies and practices used by state institutions as they began to replace families and communities in punishing youth, and explores the application of science and pseudo-scientific research in the disproportionate classification of youths of color as degenerate. She also shows how these boys and girls, and their families, resisted increasingly harsh treatment and various kinds of abuse, including sterilization.

Author : Susan Estrich
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674036603

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Getting Away with Murder by Susan Estrich Pdf

After examining what's wrong with the criminal justice system, the author presents "a lesson in how the law works and a blueprint for how it should work."--Jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Information storage and retrieval systems
ISBN : IND:30000068253651

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1976 Directory of Automated Criminal Justice Information Systems by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marcus Nieto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : UCBK:C055430766

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The Changing Role of Probation in California's Criminal Justice System by Marcus Nieto Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Information storage and retrieval systems
ISBN : UOM:39015031350070

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Directory of Automated Criminal Justice Information Systems by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph R. Grodin,Darien Shanske,Michael B. Salerno
Publisher : Oxford Commentaries on the Sta
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199988648

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The California State Constitution by Joseph R. Grodin,Darien Shanske,Michael B. Salerno Pdf

Part One. The history of the California Constitution -- Part Two. The California Constitution and commentary -- Article I. Declaration of rights -- Article II. Voting, initiative, referendum, and recall -- Article III. State of California -- Article IV. Legislative -- Article V. Executive -- Article VI. Judicial -- Article VII. Public officers and employees -- Article VIII. [Repealed] -- Article IX. Education -- Article X. Water -- Article XA. Water resources development -- Article XB. Marine resources protection act of 1990 -- Article XI. Local government -- Article XII. Public utilities -- Article XIII. Taxation -- Article XIIIA. [Tax limitation] -- Article XIIIB. Government spending limitation -- Article XIIIC. [Voter approval for local tax levies] -- Article XIIID. [Assessment and property-related fee reform] -- Article XIV. Labor relations -- Article XV. Usury -- Article XVI. Public finance -- Article XVII. [Repealed] -- Article XVIII. Amending and revising the Constitution -- Article XIX. Motor vehicle revenues -- Article XIXA. Loans from the public transportation account or local transportation funds -- Article XIXB. Motor vehicle fuel sales tax revenues and transportation improvement funding -- Article XIXC. [Enforcement of certain provisions] -- Article XX. Miscellaneous sujects -- Article XXI. Redistricting of Senate, Assembly, Congressional, and board of equalization districts -- Article XXII. [Architectural and engineering services] -- [Articles XXIII throught XXVIII have either been repealed or renumbered; there are no Articles XXIX-XXXIII.] -- Article XXXIV. Public housing project law -- Article XXXV. Medical research

Author : James R. Lasley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Correctional law
ISBN : OCLC:1028868827

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The California Criminal Justice System by James R. Lasley Pdf

Author : Franklin E. Zimring,Gordon Hawkins,Sam Kamin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190285876

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Punishment and Democracy by Franklin E. Zimring,Gordon Hawkins,Sam Kamin Pdf

"Getting tough on crime" has been one of the favorite rallying cries of American politicians in the last two decades, and "getting tough" on repeat offenders has been particularly popular. "Three strikes and you're out" laws, which effectively impose a 25-years-to-life sentence at the moment of a third felony conviction, have been passed in 26 states. California's version of the "three strikes" law, enacted in 1994, was broader and more severe than measures considered or passed in any other state. Punishment and Democracy is the first examination of the actual impact this law has had. Franklin Zimring, Sam Kamin, and Gordon Hawkins look at the origins of the law in California, compare it to other crackdown laws, and analyze the data collected on crime rates in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco in the year before and the two years after the law went into effect. They show that the "three strikes" law was a significant development in criminal justice policy making, not only at the state level, but also at the national level. They conclude with an examination of the trend toward populist initiatives driving penal policy. The importance of the subject and the stature of the authors make this book required reading for policy analysts, criminal justice scholars, elected officials, and indeed any American seeking to know more about "get-tough" criminal sentencing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Crime
ISBN : OSU:32437010960249

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Federal Probation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : UOM:39015055037397

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Document Retrieval Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kathleen Auerhahn
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791486412

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Selective Incapacitation and Public Policy by Kathleen Auerhahn Pdf

From the 1970s to the new millennium, the prison population in the United States has quadrupled while an unprecedented amount of sentencing reform has taken place, largely intended to protect the public from dangerous criminals. This book details the California experience, including the history and politics of criminal sentencing policy reform, as well as the consequences of this activity to the criminal justice system. Using cutting-edge computer simulation modeling, Kathleen Auerhahn explores the impact that sentencing reforms dating back to the 1970s have had on the composition and structure of the criminal justice system, with specific focus on prison populations. She illustrates how dynamic systems simulation modeling is used to both examine "possible futures" under a variety of sentencing structures and sentencing policy alternatives, including narrowing "strike zones" and the early release of elderly offenders, in order to more effectively target the dangerous criminals these policies promise to remove from society via incarceration.