Author : Kevin N. Wright
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Law
ISBN : 0275928276
The Great American Crime Myth
Kevin N. Wright
The Great American Crime Myth
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The Great American Crime Decline
Franklin E. Zimring
Author : Franklin E. Zimring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199702534
The Great American Crime Decline by Franklin E. Zimring Pdf
Many theories--from the routine to the bizarre--have been offered up to explain the crime decline of the 1990s. Was it record levels of imprisonment? An abatement of the crack cocaine epidemic? More police using better tactics? Or even the effects of legalized abortion? And what can we expect from crime rates in the future? Franklin E. Zimring here takes on the experts, and counters with the first in-depth portrait of the decline and its true significance. The major lesson from the 1990s is that relatively superficial changes in the character of urban life can be associated with up to 75% drops in the crime rate. Crime can drop even if there is no major change in the population, the economy or the schools. Offering the most reliable data available, Zimring documents the decline as the longest and largest since World War II. It ranges across both violent and non-violent offenses, all regions, and every demographic. All Americans, whether they live in cities or suburbs, whether rich or poor, are safer today. Casting a critical and unerring eye on current explanations, this book demonstrates that both long-standing theories of crime prevention and recently generated theories fall far short of explaining the 1990s drop. A careful study of Canadian crime trends reveals that imprisonment and economic factors may not have played the role in the U.S. crime drop that many have suggested. There was no magic bullet but instead a combination of factors working in concert rather than a single cause that produced the decline. Further--and happily for future progress, it is clear that declines in the crime rate do not require fundamental social or structural changes. Smaller shifts in policy can make large differences. The significant reductions in crime rates, especially in New York, where crime dropped twice the national average, suggests that there is room for other cities to repeat this astounding success. In this definitive look at the great American crime decline, Franklin E. Zimring finds no pat answers but evidence that even lower crime rates might be in store.
Myths and Realities of Crime and Justice
Steven Barkan,George J. Bryjak
Author : Steven Barkan,George J. Bryjak
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780763755744
Myths and Realities of Crime and Justice by Steven Barkan,George J. Bryjak Pdf
Americans are fascinated with crime, criminals, and criminal justice. For all the public interest, however, relatively little is known about these topics that dominate newspaper headlines each and every day in the United States. This book provides readers with an accurate and up-to-date picture of crime and justice in the United States. Myths and Realities of Crime and Justice: What Every American Should Know addresses the major topics in this broad field and presents recent findings from criminologists and criminal justice practitioners in a reader-friendly manner. Combining up-to-date facts with an engaging narrative, this book will dispel many of the preconceived notions and distorted pictures about crime and justice that continue to perpetuate in the United States. This one-of-a-kind criminal justice book offers everything you need to know about crime, criminals, police. Book jacket.
The New Social Contract
Joseph Dillon Davey
Author : Joseph Dillon Davey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313390609
The New Social Contract by Joseph Dillon Davey Pdf
According to the Justice Department's National Crime Survey, the crime rate in the United States is lower today than it was when Nixon was in the White House. In spite of this, political leaders demand nationwide prison construction as a response to the war on drugs and to accommodate the results of the new three strikes law. At the same time, the gap between rich and poor is wider than ever and the needs of the non-disruptive poor are being ignored by the economic and political elites to the point of unprecedented homelessness. The author predicts this widening gap will prompt the return of 1960s-style civil turmoil which will lead to the end of the war on drugs and the emptying of hundreds of thousands of cells so the protesting poor can be plausibly threatened with incarceration.
Uneasy Peace
Patrick Sharkey
Author : Patrick Sharkey
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393356540
Uneasy Peace by Patrick Sharkey Pdf
From the late ’90s to the mid-2010s, American cities experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime, dramatically changing urban life. In many cases, places once characterized by decay and abandonment are now thriving, the fear of death by gunshot wound replaced by concern about skyrocketing rents. In Uneasy Peace, Patrick Sharkey, “the leading young scholar of urban crime and concentrated poverty” (Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis) reveals the striking effects: improved school test scores, because children are better able to learn when not traumatized by nearby violence; better chances that poor children will rise into the middle class; and a marked increase in the life expectancy of African American men. Some of the forces that brought about safer streets—such as the intensive efforts made by local organizations to confront violence in their own communities—have been positive, Sharkey explains. But the drop in violent crime has also come at the high cost of aggressive policing and mass incarceration. From Harlem to South Los Angeles, Sharkey draws on original data and textured accounts of neighborhoods across the country to document the most successful proven strategies for combating violent crime and to lay out innovative and necessary approaches to the problem of violence. At a time when crime is rising again, the issue of police brutality has taken center stage, and powerful political forces seek to disinvest in cities, the insights in this book are indispensable.
Myths and Realities of Crime and Justice
Steven E. Barkan,George J. Bryjak
Author : Steven E. Barkan,George J. Bryjak
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781449691097
Myths and Realities of Crime and Justice by Steven E. Barkan,George J. Bryjak Pdf
An Engaging and Accessible Overview of Crime and Justice in America For all their interest in crime, most Americans know very little about the reality of crime and the criminal justice system in the United States—and most of what Americans do know is a loose collection of accumulated truths, half-truths, and outright fallacies. Myths and Realities of Crime and Justice: What Every American Should Know, Second Edition provides a concise but thorough overview of criminal behavior, crime, and the criminal justice system in the United States. Using up-to-date social science research to debunk many of the beliefs Americans hold about crime, the book examines key topics such as serial killers and mass murders, gun violence, criminal victimization, identity theft, policing and police corruption, plea bargaining, jury nullification, wrongful convictions, the death penalty, and the “CSI Effect.” The fully revised and updated second edition of this popular text includes the most recent crime and criminal justice data, and covers several recent high-profile crimes, including the Newtown shooting, the Jerry Sandusky case, and the Trayvon Martin case. It also includes new sections on recent trends in crime rates, street gangs, and hate crimes. Ideally suited for students in criminal justice programs as well as professionals who work within or in tandem with the criminal justice system, Myths and Realities of Crime and Justice: What Every American Should Know, Second Edition is a thorough, engaging, and highly relevant portrait of crime and justice in America.
American Society
Daniel W. Rossides
Author : Daniel W. Rossides
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1882289048
American Society by Daniel W. Rossides Pdf
This text invites students to pursue a career in sociology, entices others to consider advanced courses, and yet serves those who will take but one sociology course. This basic textbook for Introduction to Sociology can also serve well in courses in American Society.
The Great American Delusion
Patrick Davies
Author : Patrick Davies
Publisher : Caravan Books UK
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781838251215
The Great American Delusion by Patrick Davies Pdf
Something has been going badly wrong in America. But what is really happening, why, and what does it mean? Could the US itself now be the greatest threat to the future of the West? What does Joe Biden need to do to get America back on track? In this fascinating account of America today, Patrick Davies, former British Deputy Ambassador to the US, sets out to understand how America, blinded by myths of its own exceptionalism, has failed to tackle serious political, social and economic problems which are exacerbating divisions in its society, poisoning its politics and ultimately fuelling America’s decline. The Great American Delusion asks whether, with global power shifting eastwards, the US can save itself and, with it, the Western world before it’s too late. Patrick Davies worked alongside the Obama and Trump White Houses for five years. He has more than 30 years’ experience of America, its people and its politics.
Media, Process, and the Social Construction of Crime
Gregg Barak
Author : Gregg Barak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135886110
Media, Process, and the Social Construction of Crime by Gregg Barak Pdf
First published in 1995. One of the most pervasive forms of social control in our society is the mass media. The public learns from television, newspapers, magazines, movies, and books what is happening in the world and how to interpret it. The problem, however, is that full or complete interpretations of reality are not presented. In short, reality itself, clear and unadorned, is not to be found in the information provided by the media. Instead, media presentations consist of those various viewpoints that succeed in capturing the minds and imaginations of the masses, or in terms of the 1992 presidential campaign, that successfully put the winning spin on information. Barak and others believe that criminologists should participate in the various media presentations of crime and justice. By bringing their knowledge to bear on media presentations, criminologists can help make some news more representative and less distorted of the social reality of crime.
Social Problems in a Free Society
Myles J. Kelleher
Author : Myles J. Kelleher
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0761829245
Social Problems in a Free Society by Myles J. Kelleher Pdf
The future of the sociologist's profession is jeopardized by an ongoing trend toward the politicization of sociology and the radicalization of social problems. This book calls for the rethinking of the culture of social, political, and economic liberty to create a resurgence of a sociological agenda. Social Problems in a Free Society offers an original perspective on social problems such as violations of the principles of individual rights and the free market. This book is a vision for reinvigorating the discipline in a fashion undreamt of within the wearisome strains of today's radical social problems theory.
NIJ Reports
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : NWU:35556029256120
NIJ Reports by Anonim Pdf
Making Crime Pay
Katherine Beckett
Author : Katherine Beckett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0195350472
Making Crime Pay by Katherine Beckett Pdf
Most Americans are not aware that the US prison population has tripled over the past two decades, nor that the US has the highest rate of incarceration in the industrialized world. Despite these facts, politicians from across the ideological spectrum continue to campaign on "law and order" platforms and to propose "three strikes"--and even "two strikes"--sentencing laws. Why is this the case? How have crime, drugs, and delinquency come to be such salient political issues, and why have enhanced punishment and social control been defined as the most appropriate responses to these complex social problems? Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics provides original, fascinating, and persuasive answers to these questions. According to conventional wisdom, the worsening of the crime and drug problems has led the public to become more punitive, and "tough" anti-crime policies are politicians' collective response to this popular sentiment. Katherine Beckett challenges this interpretation, arguing instead that the origins of the punitive shift in crime control policy lie in the political rather than the penal realm--particularly in the tumultuous period of the 1960s.
Hate Crimes
James B. Jacobs,Kimberly Potter
Author : James B. Jacobs,Kimberly Potter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190286316
Hate Crimes by James B. Jacobs,Kimberly Potter Pdf
In the early 1980s, a new category of crime appeared in the criminal law lexicon. In response to concerted advocacy-group lobbying, Congress and many state legislatures passed a wave of "hate crime" laws requiring the collection of statistics on, and enhancing the punishment for, crimes motivated by certain prejudices. This book places the evolution of the hate crime concept in socio-legal perspective. James B. Jacobs and Kimberly Potter adopt a skeptical if not critical stance, maintaining that legal definitions of hate crime are riddled with ambiguity and subjectivity. No matter how hate crime is defined, and despite an apparent media consensus to the contrary, the authors find no evidence to support the claim that the United States is experiencing a hate crime epidemic--instead, they cast doubt on whether the number of hate crimes is even increasing. The authors further assert that, while the federal effort to establish a reliable hate crime accounting system has failed, data collected for this purpose have led to widespread misinterpretation of the state of intergroup relations in this country. The book contends that hate crime as a socio-legal category represents the elaboration of an identity politics now manifesting itself in many areas of the law. But the attempt to apply the anti-discrimination paradigm to criminal law generates problems and anomalies. For one thing, members of minority groups are frequently hate crime perpetrators. Moreover, the underlying conduct prohibited by hate crime law is already subject to criminal punishment. Jacobs and Potter question whether hate crimes are worse or more serious than similar crimes attributable to other anti-social motivations. They also argue that the effort to single out hate crime for greater punishment is, in effect, an effort to punish some offenders more seriously simply because of their beliefs, opinions, or values, thus implicating the First Amendment. Advancing a provocative argument in clear and persuasive terms, Jacobs and Potter show how the recriminalization of hate crime has little (if any) value with respect to law enforcement or criminal justice. Indeed, enforcement of such laws may exacerbate intergroup tensions rather than eradicate prejudice.
Hate Crimes : Criminal Law and Identity Politics
New York University Center for Research in Crime and Justice James B. Jacobs Director,New York University Center for Research in Crime and Justice Kimberly Potter Director
Author : New York University Center for Research in Crime and Justice James B. Jacobs Director,New York University Center for Research in Crime and Justice Kimberly Potter Director
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199774555
Hate Crimes : Criminal Law and Identity Politics by New York University Center for Research in Crime and Justice James B. Jacobs Director,New York University Center for Research in Crime and Justice Kimberly Potter Director Pdf
In the early 1980s, a new category of crime appeared in the criminal law lexicon. In response to concerted advocacy-group lobbying, Congress and many state legislatures passed a wave of "hate crime" laws requiring the collection of statistics on, and enhancing the punishment for, crimes motivated by certain prejudices. This book places the evolution of the hate crime concept in socio-legal perspective. James B. Jacobs and Kimberly Potter adopt a skeptical if not critical stance, maintaining that legal definitions of hate crime are riddled with ambiguity and subjectivity. No matter how hate crime is defined, and despite an apparent media consensus to the contrary, the authors find no evidence to support the claim that the United States is experiencing a hate crime epidemic--instead, they cast doubt on whether the number of hate crimes is even increasing. The authors further assert that, while the federal effort to establish a reliable hate crime accounting system has failed, data collected for this purpose have led to widespread misinterpretation of the state of intergroup relations in this country. The book contends that hate crime as a socio-legal category represents the elaboration of an identity politics now manifesting itself in many areas of the law. But the attempt to apply the anti-discrimination paradigm to criminal law generates problems and anomalies. For one thing, members of minority groups are frequently hate crime perpetrators. Moreover, the underlying conduct prohibited by hate crime law is already subject to criminal punishment. Jacobs and Potter question whether hate crimes are worse or more serious than similar crimes attributable to other anti-social motivations. They also argue that the effort to single out hate crime for greater punishment is, in effect, an effort to punish some offenders more seriously simply because of their beliefs, opinions, or values, thus implicating the First Amendment. Advancing a provocative argument in clear and persuasive terms, Jacobs and Potter show how the recriminalization of hate crime has little (if any) value with respect to law enforcement or criminal justice. Indeed, enforcement of such laws may exacerbate intergroup tensions rather than eradicate prejudice.
Public Housing Myths
Nicholas Dagen Bloom,Fritz Umbach,Lawrence J. Vale
Author : Nicholas Dagen Bloom,Fritz Umbach,Lawrence J. Vale
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801456251
Public Housing Myths by Nicholas Dagen Bloom,Fritz Umbach,Lawrence J. Vale Pdf
Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an updated, panoramic view of public housing. With eleven chapters by prominent scholars, the collection not only covers a groundbreaking range of public housing issues transnationally but also does so in a revisionist and provocative manner. With students in mind, Public Housing Myths is organized thematically around popular preconceptions and myths about the policies surrounding big city public housing, the places themselves, and the people who call them home. The authors challenge narratives of inevitable decline, architectural determinism, and rampant criminality that have shaped earlier accounts and still dominate public perception.