The Toughest Beat

Author : Joshua Page
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199985074

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The Toughest Beat by Joshua Page Pdf

In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars. As our prison population has exploded, 'law and order' interest groups have also grown -- in numbers and political clout. In The Toughest Beat, Joshua Page argues in crisp, vivid prose that the Golden State's prison boom fueled the rise of one of the most politically potent and feared interest groups in the nation: the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA). As it made great strides for its members, the prison officers' union also fundamentally altered the composition and orientation of the penal field. The Toughest Beat is essential reading for anyone concerned with contemporary crime and punishment, interest group politics, and public sector labor unions.

Author : Samuel H. Pillsbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429756450

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Imagining a Greater Justice by Samuel H. Pillsbury Pdf

Even for violent crime, justice should mean more than punishment. By paying close attention to the relational harms suffered by victims, this book develops a concept of relational justice for survivors, offenders and community. Relational justice looks beyond traditional rules of legal responsibility to include the social and emotional dimensions of human experience, opening the way for a more compassionate, effective and just response to crime. The book’s chapters follow a journey from victim experiences of violence to community healing from violence. Early chapters examine the relational harms inflicted by the worst wrongs, the moral responsibility of wrongdoers and common mistakes made in judging wrongdoing. Particular attention is paid here to sexual violence. The book then moves to questions of just punishment: proper sentencing by judges, mandatory sentences approved by the public, and the realities of contemporary incarceration, focusing particularly on solitary confinement and sexual violence. In its remaining chapters, the book looks at changes brought by the victims' rights movement and victim needs that current law does not, and perhaps cannot meet. It then addresses possibilities for offender change and challenges for majority America in addressing race discrimination in criminal justice. The book concludes with a look at how individuals might live out the ideals of a greater—relational—justice. Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Philip Russell Goodman,Joshua Page,Michelle Phelps
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199976065

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Breaking the Pendulum by Philip Russell Goodman,Joshua Page,Michelle Phelps Pdf

The history of criminal justice in the U.S. is often described as a pendulum, swinging back and forth between strict punishment and lenient rehabilitation. While this view is common wisdom, it is wrong. In Breaking the Pendulum, Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps systematically debunk the pendulum perspective, showing that it distorts how and why criminal justice changes. The pendulum model blinds us to the blending of penal orientations, policies, and practices, as well as the struggle between actors that shapes laws, institutions, and how we think about crime, punishment, and related issues. Through a re-analysis of more than two hundred years of penal history, starting with the rise of penitentiaries in the 19th Century and ending with ongoing efforts to roll back mass incarceration, the authors offer an alternative approach to conceptualizing penal development. Their agonistic perspective posits that struggle is the motor force of criminal justice history. Punishment expands, contracts, and morphs because of contestation between real people in real contexts, not a mechanical "swing" of the pendulum. This alternative framework is far more accurate and empowering than metaphors that ignore or downplay the importance of struggle in shaping criminal justice. This clearly written, engaging book is an invaluable resource for teachers, students, and scholars seeking to understand the past, present, and future of American criminal justice. By demonstrating the central role of struggle in generating major transformations, Breaking the Pendulum encourages combatants to keep fighting to change the system.

Author : William Richard Wilkinson
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814210017

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Prison Work by William Richard Wilkinson Pdf

What do we know first-hand about prisons? We have accounts from many top administrators. There is a large literature of convict reports and memoirs. But we have almost no personal accounts written by the people who were engaged in the day-to-day work of guarding and keeping prison inmates. In Prison Work, former California prisons corrections officer William Richard Wilkinson candidly tells what it was like to try to handle problems that can arise in prison, from furnishing three meals a day to quelling a riot. Constructed around a series of interviews with Wilkinson, this book recounts his extensive experience with discipline problems, wrong-headed administrators, contraband, and escapes. Wilkinson's story presents a blunt, unabashed view of daily life in prison, including fascinating discussions of racial and religious conflict, gangs, and prison violence as well as the institutional culture and more human side of life as experienced by a prison employee. The duration of Wilkinson's career (1951-1981) saw the greatest change in the American prison system. He was responsible for implementing change on the level of the prison block. At the California Institution for Men in Chino, he started out under the inspiring leadership of one of the most famous reform figures in penology. At the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, he participated in one of the great prison experiments when medical officials ran a maximum security prison. And at Soledad, he experienced the reaction to earlier liberal policies. Over the years, he accumulated much wisdom concerning how to handle convicts-wisdom that still has importance for corrections workers. Book jacket.

Author : Ivan G. Goldman
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781612344874

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Sick Justice by Ivan G. Goldman Pdf

In America, 2.3 million people-a population about the size of Houston's, the country's fourth-largest city-live behind bars. Sick Justice explores the economic, social, and political forces that hijacked the criminal justice system to create this bizarre situation. Presenting frightening true stories of (sometimes wrongfully) incarcerated individuals, Ivan G. Goldman exposes the inept bureaucracies of America's prisons and shows the real reasons that disproportionate numbers of minorities, the poor, and the mentally ill end up there. Goldman dissects the widespread phenomenon of jailing for profit, the outsized power of prison guards' unions, California's exceptionally rigid three-strikes law, the ineffective and never-ending war on drugs, the closing of mental health institutions across the country, and other blunders and avaricious practices that have brought us to this point. Sick Justice tells a big, gripping story that's long overdue. By illuminating the system's brutality and greed and the prisoners' gratuitous suffering, the book aims to be a catalyst for reform, complementing the work of the Innocence Project and mirroring the effects of Michael Harrington's The Other America: Poverty in the United States (1962), which became the driving force behind the war on poverty.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSD:31822026606921

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The Beat by Anonim Pdf

Author : Clint Willis
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1560254122

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NYPD by Clint Willis Pdf

New York has always inspired larger-than-life tales and great writing—but on the topic of cops and crime it provides more raw material than almost anywhere else. A long history of classic films, television hits, and of course, books, have turned the New York City Police Department into a symbol for the dark drama of urban police work. And the rich and colorful vein of literature which has grown up around this culture makes NYPD not only a gripping read but a literary tour de force. Adrenaline Books takes you inside this gritty, tough life of being a cop in New York City. In addition to works by best-selling authors such as Peter Maas and Tom Wolfe, the book will include selections that offer a broad and deep look at the department's many faces: Carsten Stroud tells what it's like to track down a killer; Richard Rosenthal offers a sense of the pressures and risks of going undercover; and Bill McCarthy and Mike Mallowe offer a guided tour of the city's dregs and the pressures of working with its hardest cases. Philip Gourevitch's account of a cop's dedicated efforts to resurrect a cold case; Marcus Laffey's already near-classic articles on life as a patrolman; and Peter Hellman's best-seller Chief, written with an NYPD chief of detectives help round out this fascinating view of the NYPD and the forces that have made it such a compelling subject for so many good writers. " ... Try Adrenaline Books.... In three years, this 20-volume anthology series has earned a cult following."—ESPN the Magazine

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1949-07
Category : Bus lines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128531535

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Bus Transportation by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Hohenberg
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0030625823

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The Professional Journalist by John Hohenberg Pdf

This 5th edition has been revised to reflect technological developments involving electronic journalism in both the print and broadcast media. Describes the work of the newspaperwriter, covers good journalistic practices, including how to cover a story and how to write it up. Discusses a journalist's relations with others, the editorial page and foreign correspondents.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : UOM:39015022480019

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Commercial Car Journal by Anonim Pdf

Beginning with 1937, the April issue of each vol. is the Fleet reference annual.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : California
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113361328

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California Historian by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1944-05
Category : Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015068035073

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Coronet by Anonim Pdf

Author : Howard Chaykin
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:T1779500015001

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The Newsboy Legion and the Boy Commandos Special #1 (2017-) #1 by Howard Chaykin Pdf

Jack KirbyÕs two wartime kid gangs share their first adventure together in a novel-length tale written and illustrated by Howard Chaykin! When the Boy Commandos arrive in New York on the trail of a secret Axis agent, theyÕre greeted as turf invaders by the crime-fighting Newsboys! Can these kids put aside their rivalry and join forces to protect the home front? Also features a Kirby reprint!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1262 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : UOM:39015024505474

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Fleet Owner by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Current events
ISBN : IND:32000000712101

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Newsweek by Anonim Pdf