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Book SynopsisAbout our authors Cliff Roberson, LLM, PhD, is an emeritus professor of criminal justice at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, and a retired professor of criminology at California State University in Fresno. He has authored or coauthored more than 60 books and texts on legal subjects. His previous academic experiences include Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Arkansas Tech University; Dean of Arts and Sciences, University of Houston, Victoria; Director of Programs, National College of District Attorneys; Professor of Criminology and Director of Justice Center, California State University, Fresno; and Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, St. Edward's University. Dr. Roberson's non-academic experience includes US Marine Corps service as an infantry officer, trial and defense counsel, military judge as a marine judge advocate, and director of the military law branch. Other legal employment experiences include Trial SupervisorTable of Contents1. Introduction to Criminal Law2. Criminal Liability3. Requirement of an Act4. Inchoate or Anticipatory Crimes5. Defenses6. Homicide7. Sex Crimes8. Crimes Against Persons9. Theft and Property Crimes10. Robbery, Extortion, and Bribery11. Crimes Against Habitation12. Crimes Against Public Morals13. Narcotics and Alcohol Crimes14. Crimes of Abuse15. White-Collar and Organized Crimes16. PunishmentsAppendixGlossaryCase IndexSubject Index

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Book SynopsisFocused content, layout and price - Routledge competes and wins in relation to all of these factors' - Craig Lind, University of Sussex, UK  The best value and best format books on the market.' - Ed Bates, Southampton University, UK   Routledge Student Statutes present all the legislation students need in one easy-to-use volume. Developed in response to feedback from lecturers and students, this book offer a fully up-to-date, comprehensive, and clearly presented collection of legislation - ideal for LLB and GDL course and exam use.  Routledge Student Statutes are:     Exam Friendly: un-annotated and conforming to exam regulations    Tailored to fit your course: 80% of lecturers we surveyed agree that Routledge Student Statutes match their course and cover the relevant legislation    Trustworthy: Routledge Student Statutes are compiled by subject experts, updated annually and have bTable of ContentsAccessories and Abettors Act 1861. Offences Against the Person Act 1861. Dogs Act 1871. Explosive Substances Act 1883. Trial of Lunatics Act 1883. Official Secrets Act 1911. Perjury Act 1911. Criminal Justice Act 1925. Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929. Children and Young Persons Act 1933. Public Order Act 1936. Infanticide Act 1938. Prevention of Crime Act 1953. Sexual Offences Act 1956. Homicide Act 1957. Obscene Publications Act 1959. Street Offences Act 1959. Suicide Act 1961. Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964. Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965. Abortion Act 1967. Criminal Justice Act 1967. Criminal Law Act 1967. Sexual Offences Act 1967. Criminal Appeals Act 1968. Firearms Act 1968. Theft Act 1968. Tattooing of Minors Act 1969. Criminal Damage Act 1971. Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. Criminal Law Act 1977. Interpretation Act 1978. Protection of Children Act 1978. Theft Act 1978. Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980. Criminal Attempts Act 1981. Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981. Taking of Hostages Act 1982. Child Abduction Act 1984. Intoxicating Substances (Supply) Act 1985. Sexual Offences Act 1985. Public Order Act 1986. Criminal Justice Act 1987. Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988. Malicious Communications Act 1988. Road Traffic Act 1988. Official Secrets Act 1989. Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991. Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. Football (Offences) Act 1991. Sexual Offences Act 1993. Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. Family Law Act 1996. Law Reform (Year and a Day Rule) Act 1996. Police Act 1996. Protection from Harassment Act 1997. Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997. Knives Act 1997. Computer Misuse Act 1998. Crime and Disorder Act 1998. Human Rights Act 1998. Finance Act 2000. Terrorism Act 2000. Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001. Mobile Telephones (Re-programming) Act 2002. Communications Act 2003. Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003. Licensing Act 2003. Sexual Offences Act 2003. Children Act 2004. Domestic Violence..

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Book SynopsisPunishment Without Crime provides a sweeping and revelatory new account of America''s broken criminal justice system from the perspective of the paradigmatic American crime-the lowly misdemeanor. While felony trials grab headlines, the petty offense system is far more representative of criminal justice as most Americans actually encounter it. Petty offenses make up 80 percent of state and local criminal dockets; over 13 million misdemeanor cases are filed every year, four times the number of felony cases. Misdemeanors are one of the largest and most unappreciated causes of our criminal system''s size and its harshness-and a crucial source of American inequality.Misdemeanor cases are by definition minor, but their impact is not. Each year, the petty offense process sweeps millions of people from arrest to a guilty plea or conviction. In effect, police get to decide who will be convicted of minor crimes, simply by arresting them for offenses like driving on a suspended

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Book SynopsisCourtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge's chambers, the spectators' gallery. From the daily grind of the court to the highest-profile case of the year, Steve Bogira’s masterful investigation raises fundamental issues of race, civil rights, and justice in America.

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Book SynopsisThis informative reference volume features the key papers in the growing field of quantitative criminology. The papers provide examples of the importation of statistical methods from other fields to criminology, the adaptation of such methods to special criminological problems through introspection, and the development of new innovative statistical approaches. The volume illustrates the growing sophistication and maturation of quantitative methods in this field. Divided into five parts: research design, sampling, issues in measurement, descriptive analysis and causal analysis, it will be of interest to anyone concerned with criminology and criminal justice, as well as those with specialized interests in quantitative methods.Trade Review'...a consolidated collection of sophisticated treatments of criminological research problems...of use to researchers, instructors and students...' Psychology Teaching ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction. Research Design and Study Outcomes: The specific deterrent effects of arrest for domestic assault, Lawrence W. Sherman and Richard A. Berk; A randomized experiment testing inmate classification systems, Richard A. Berk, Heather Ladd, Heidi Graziano and Jong-Ho Baek; Does research design affect study outcomes in criminal justice?, David Weisburd, Cynthia M. Lum and Anthony Petrosino; The efficacy of psychological, educational and behavioral treatment: confirmation from meta-analysis, Mark W. Lipsey and David B. Wilson. Quantitative Issues in Sampling: Missing data problems in criminological research: 2 case studies, Robert Brame and Raymond Paternoster; Design sensitivity in criminal justice experiments, David Weisburd, Anthony Petrosino and Gail Mason; Formal processing and future delinquency: deviance amplification as selection artifact, Douglas A. Smith and Raymond Paternoster. Issues in Measurement: A note on the use of official statistics, John I. Kitsuse and Aaron V. Cicourel; On exploring the 'dark figure' of crime, Albert D. Biderman and Albert J. Reiss Jr ; Rap sheets in criminological research: considerations and caveats, Michael R. Geerken; An experimental comparison of 2 self-report methods for measuring lambda, Julie Horney and Ineke Haen Marshall; The age-crime debate: assessing the limits of longitudinal self-report data, Janet L. Lauritsen; Self-reported delinquency and a combined delinquency seriousness scale based on boys, mothers and teachers: concurrent and predictive validity for African Americans and Caucasians, David P. Farrington, Rolf Loeber, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, Welmoet B. van Kammen and Laura Schmidt. Descriptive Analysis of Quantitative Data: Visualizing homicide: a research note, Michael D. Maltz; The (un)known universe: mapping gangs and gang violence in Boston, David M. Kennedy, Anthony A. Braga and Anne M. Piehl; A prospective test of a criminal career model, Arnold Barnett, Alfred Blumstein and David P. Farrington; Micro-models of criminal careers: a synthesis of the criminal careers and life course approaches via semiparametric mixed poisson models with empirical applications, Kenneth C. Land and Daniel S. Nagin; Desistance as a developmental process: a comparison of static and dynamic approaches, Shawn D. Bushway, Terrence P. Thornberry and Marvin D. Krohn; Trajectories of crime at places: a longitudinal study of street segments in the city of Seattle, David Weisburd, Shawn Bushway, Cynthia Lum and Sue-Ming Yang. Causal Modeling: Measuring positive externalities from unobservable victim precaution: an empirical analysis of Lojack, Ian Ayres and Steven D. Levitt; A comparative study of the preventative effects of mandatory sentencing laws for gun crimes, David McDowall, Colin Loftin and Brian Wiersema; Time series analysis of crime rates, David F. Greenberg; Poisson-based regression analysis of aggregate crime rates, D. Wayne Osgood; Name index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on theory, control and policy issues in the area of corporate crime. A collection of classic and contemporary published articles that reflect a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches, Corporate Crime highlights the most influential thinking about law, crime causation and policy dilemmas - both within the U.S. and internationally.Table of ContentsContents: Series preface; Introduction; Part I Causes of Corporate Crime: Micro and Macro Factors: Micro: Predicting unethical behavior among market practitioners, Mary Zey-Ferrell, K. Mark Weaver and O.C. Ferrall; Rational choice, situated action, and the social control of organizations, Diane Vaughan; Toward a control theory of white-collar offending, James R. Laseley. Organizational: Organizational offending and neoclassical criminality: challenging the reach of a general theory of crime, Gary E. Reed and Peter Cleary Yeager; Notes on the criminogenic hypothesis: a case study of the American liquor industry, Norman K. Denzin; The changing of the guard: top management characteristics, organizational strain, and antitrust offending, Sally S. Simpson and Christopher S. Koper. Macro/Integrated: Global anomie, dysnomie, and economic crime: hidden consequences of neoliberalism and globalization in Russia and around the world, Nikos Passas; Toward an integrated theory of white-collar crime, James William Coleman; Reintegrative shaming and compliance with regulatory standards, Toni Makkai and John Braithwaite.Part II Responses to Corporate Crime: Public Perceptions of Corporate Responsibility: Distributing responsibility for wrongdoing inside corporate hierarchies: public judgments in 3 societies, Joseph Sanders and V. Lee Hamilton. Justice System Responses: Local prosecutors and corporate crime, Michael L. Benson, Francis T. Cullen and William J. Maakestad; Organizational sentencing, Molly E. Joseph; Cooperation, deterrence, and the ecology of regulatory enforcement John T. Scholz. Part III Policy Alternatives and Dilemmas: The sociology of corporate crime: an obituary: (or, whose knowledge claims have legs?), Laureen Snider; Professional advisers and white-collar illegality: towards explaining and excusing professional failure, Peter Grabosky; The social meaning of environmental command and control, Michael P. Vandenbergh; Transnational regulation of the pharmaceutical industry, John Braithwaite; Information as a policy instrument in protecting the environment: what have we learned?, Mark A. Cohen; Empirical evidence and the legal doctrine of corporate criminal liability, Gilbert Geis and Joseph F.C. Dimento; Name index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume collects new, high-quality scholarship on the perennially controversial institution of trial by jury. The book provides accounts of the jury''s historical development and contemporary use, as well as empirical work on jury selection, jury decision making and jury reform.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction. The Development of Trial by Jury: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: The international development of the jury: the role of the British Empire, R. Vogler; The American criminal jury, Nancy J. King; Appellate courts and civil juries, Stephan Landsman; Europe's new jury systems: the cases of Spain and Russia, Stephen C. Thaman; Citizen participation in judicial decision making: juries, lay judges and Japan, Richard O. Lempert. The Jury Selection Process: The representative jury requirement: jury representativeness and cross sectional participation from the beginning to the end of the jury selection process, Hiroshi Fukurai; Case studies of pre- and mid-trial prejudice in criminal and civil litigation, Neil Vidmar; Assessing pre-trial publicity effects: integrating content analytic results, Christina A. Studebaker, Jennifer K. Robbenolt, Maithilee K. Pathak-Sharma and Steven D. Penrod. Juror Judgments of Trial Evidence: Sexual harassment stories: testing a story-mediated model of juror decision making in civil litigation, Jill E. Huntley and Mark Costanzo; Juror competence in processing complex information: implications from a simulation of the Maxwell trial, T.M. Honess, M. Levi and E.A. Charman; Jurors' evaluations of expert testimony: judging the messenger and the message, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkvic and Valerie P. Hans; The eye of everyman: witnessing DNA in the Simpson trial, Sheila Jasanoff ; Folk knowledge as legal action: death penalty judgments and the tenet of early release in a culture of mistrust and punitiveness, Benjamin D. Steiner, William J. Bowers and Austin Sarat Jury Deliberation Processes: Civic awakening in the jury room: a test of the connection between jury deliberation and political participation, John Gastil, E. Pierre Deess and Phil Weiser; A meta-analysis of the effects of jury size, Michael J. Saks and Mollie Weighner Marti; The hung jury: the American jury's insights and contemporary understanding, Valerie P. Hans, Paula L. Hannaford-Agor, Nicole L. Mott and G.T. Munsterman. Jury Research and Jury Reform: Juror comprehension and public policy: oerceived problems and proposed solutions, Phoebe C. Ellsworth, and Alan Reifman; Inside the jury room: evaluating juror discussions during trial, Shari Seidman Diamond, Neil Vidmar, Mary Rose, Leslie Ellis and Beth Murphy; Precious little guidance: jury instruction on damage awards, Edith Greene and Brian Bornstein; reconciling experimental incoherence with real-world coherence in punitive damages, Theodore Eisenberg, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski and Martin T. Wells; Index.

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Book SynopsisProsecutors are the most powerful actors in the legal system. Their decisions have significant implications for how crime is defined, who is charged, and the punishment they receive. This volume draws together classic and recent scholarship that critically examines how prosecutorial power is constituted through their decision-making processes, the relationships between legal changes and court actors, and the consequences of this for society. Taken as a whole, this collection offers insights into law in action, how social change shapes the legal system, and alternative forms of case resolution.Table of ContentsContents: Series preface; Introduction; Part I Decision-Making practices: Case Screening and Charging: Prosecutorial discretion: the effects of uncertainty, Celesta A. Albonetti; Organisational horizons and complaint-filing, Robert M. Emerson and Blair Paley; Prosecution and race: the power and privilege of discretion, Angela J. Davis; Convictability and discordant locales: reproducing race, class, and gender ideologies in prosecutorial decision making, Lisa Frohmann. Part II Decision-Making Practices: Plea Bargaining: The prosecutor's role in plea bargaining, Albert W. Alschuler; Gauging the strength of evidence prior to plea bargaining: the interpretive procedures of court-appointed defense attorney, Debra S. Emmelmann; The structure of discourse in misdemeanor plea bargaining, Douglas W. Maynard; Prosecutorial discretion and plea bargaining in the United States, France, Germany and Italy: a comparative perspective, Yue Ma. Part III Legal Reforms and Shifts in Prosecutorial Power: Killing her softly: intimate abuse and the violence of state intervention, Linda G. Mills; Crime control and feminist law reform in domestic violence law: a critical review, Donna Coker; The federal/state criminal prosecution nexus: a case study of cooperation and discretion, Lisa L. Miller and James Eisenstein. Part IV Prosecutorial Power and Ethical Conduct: Victory, not justice, is the goal, Ken Armstrong and Maurice Possley; Prosecution on trial in DuPage, Maurice Possley and Ken Armstrong; Reversal of fortune, Ken Armstrong and Maurice Possley; Break rules, be promoted, Ken Armstrong and Maurice Possley; The prosecutor's duty to truth, Bennett L. Gershman. Part V International Criminal Court and Alternatives to Prosecution: Crimes of war and force of law, John Hagan and Ron Levi; Between vengeance and forgiveness: South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission, Martha Minow; Name index.

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Book SynopsisThis important volume brings together many of the most influential articles and essays in the emerging field of police ethics, and specifically the philosophical literature on ethical issues that arise in policing. Topics covered include theories of policing; police authority and police discretion; police culture; corruption; deadly force and rights of suspects.Trade Review'a welcome contribution to the literature on police ethics and especially the philosophical literature on ethical issues that arise in policing...an important addition ...' Ethical PerspectivesTable of ContentsContents: Series preface; introduction. Part I Theories of Policing: The capacity to use force as the core of the police role, Egon Bittner; A social contract perspective on the police role, Howard S. Cohen and Michael Feldberg; Moral foundations of policing, John Kleinig; Human rights and the institution of the police, Seumas Miller. Part II Police Authority and Police Discretion: 2 principles of policing, Lord Scarman; The police and their rules of office: an ethical analysis, William C. Heffernan; Police discretion, Laurence Lustgarten; The pervasive false pretense of full enforcement, K.C. Davis; police discretion, legality and morality, James F. Doyle; Is police discretion justified in a free society?, Jeffrey Reiman; Selective enforcement and the rule of law, John Kleinig. Part III Police Culture: A sketch of the policemen's 'working personality', Jerome H. Skolnick; Police culture, Steve James and Ian Warren; Loyalty: the police, R.E. Ewin; The problematic virtue of loyalty, John Kleinig; 3 types of leadership, William C. Heffernan. Part IV Police Corruption: Becoming bent: moral careers of corrupt policemen, Lawrence Sherman; Exploiting police authority, Howard Cohen ; The Dirty Harry problem, Carl B. Klockars; Tragedy and 'noble cause' corruption, Edwin J. Delattre. Part V Deadly Force: Tennessee v. Garner, US Supreme Court; Deadly force, P.A.J. Waddington; Shootings by police in Victoria: the ethical issues, Seumas Miller. Part VI Rights of Suspects: Deception by police, Jerome Skolnick; Who really gets stung? Some issues raised by the new police undercover work, Gary T. Marx; The serpent beguiled me and I did eat: entrapment and the creation of crime, Gerald Dworkin; The ethics of deceptive interrogation, Jerome H. Skolnick and Richard A. Leo; Name index.

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Book SynopsisGun Crime brings together a collection of texts drawn from a diverse range of disciplines which have contributed towards understanding the impact of gun crime within western societies. The book is divided into four interconnected sections which examine the use of firearms to commit offences. Part one explores the problems of youth, gang membership and guns in society. Part two examines the act of robbery where firearms are deployed by criminals in order to facilitate and commission robbery offences. Part three analyses the problem of violence and homicide associated with firearm offending. In the fourth and final part of the collection the texts focus on firearm injury trauma caused as a result of gun crime. The book provides insights for students and researchers, law enforcement agencies, community-based activists and policy-makers seeking to understand issues embedded within firearms offending and to develop initiatives to tackle gun crime.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Youth, Gangs and Guns: Gang-related gun violence: socialization, identity and self, Paul B. Stretesky and Mark R. Pogrebin; Gangs, gang homicides, and gang loyalty: organized crimes or disorganized criminals, Scott H. Decker and G.David Curry; The role of firearms in violence 'scripts': the dynamics of gun events among adolescent males, Deanna L. Wilkinson and Jeffrey Fagan; Gun crime: the market in and use of illegal firearms, Gavin Hales, Chris Lewis and Daniel Silverstone; Early onset offending and later violent and gun outcomes in a contemporary youth cohort, Cynthia Perez McCluskey, John D. McCluskey and Timothy S. Bynum; The association between weapon-carrying and the use of violence among adolescents living in or around public housing, Robert H. DuRant, Alan G. Getts, Chris Cadenhead and Elizabeth R. Woods; Examining the arsenal of juvenile gunslingers: trends and policy implications, Rick Ruddell and G. Larry Mays; 'Getting high and getting by': dimensions of drug selling behaviours among American Mexican gang members in South Texas, Avelardo Valdez and Stephen J. Sifaneck. Part II Robbery and Firearms: Stick-up, street culture, and offender motivation, Bruce A. Jacobs and Richard Wright; Up it up: gender and the accomplishment of street robbery, Jody Miller; Possession and use of illegal guns among offenders in England and Wales, Trevor Bennett and Katy Holloway; Generating compliance: the case of robbery, David F. Luckenbill; Armed and dangerous? the use of firearms in robbery, Ian O'Donnell and Shona Morrison; 'Stick 'em up, buddy': robbery, lifestyle, and specialization within a cohort of parolees, Shawn L. Schwaner; Robbery violence, Philip J. Cook. Part III Gun Crime, Violence and Homicide: Weapon use and violent crime: national crime victimization survey, 1993-2001, Craig Perkins; To kill or not to kill? Lethal outcomes in injurious attacks, Richard B. Felson and Steven F. Messner; Exploring the drugs-homicide connecti

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Book SynopsisBuilding Modern Criminology collects four decades of theoretical essays and research papers by David Greenberg, a sociologist pulled away by his political experiences during the Vietnam War from a career in theoretical high energy physics into criminology. The papers take up critical questions in the study of crime, including the explanation of group differences, the nature of criminal careers, and historical trends in violence. Other papers address the historical development of criminal prohibitions, modes of punishment, and the effectiveness of sanctions in preventing crime. These seminal efforts have helped to build a logically coherent, empirically grounded criminology that understands the criminal law, patterns of crime and social responses to it in their historically-specific, social contexts. This volume is indispensable for students, teachers and working criminological researchers engaging with cutting-edge issues in contemporary criminology.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Causes of Crime: Delinquency and the age structure of society; The gendering of crime in Marxist theory; Time series analysis of crime rates; Long-term trends in crimes of violence; Modeling criminal careers. Part II The Effects of the Criminal Justice System: The effect of arrests on crime: a multivariate panel analysis; The incapacitative effect of imprisonment: some estimates. Part III Understanding the Criminal Law and Criminal Justice System: The dialectics of crime control (with Drew Humphries); The dynamics of oscillatory punishment processes; The prison as a lawless agency (with Fay Stender); Punishment, division of labor, and social solidarity; State prison populations and their growth, 1971-1991 (with Valerie West); Siting the death penalty internationally (with Valerie West); List of publications; Name Index.

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Book SynopsisDavid Downes'' early work on delinquency in East London made an original contribution to the comparative study of anomie and subcultural theory, and social policy on education and employment. His research and writing went on to include the study of gambling, drugs policy and the state of criminological theory. His later work broke new ground in detailed, cross-national, comparative analysis of criminal justice and penal policy, in particular in relation to England and the Netherlands. A related endeavour was to contribute (with Rod Morgan) to the burgeoning study of the politics of crime control. He was a founding member of the National Deviancy Conference in 1968 and of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at the LSE in 1989. He edited the British Journal of Criminology from 1985 until 1990. His most recent work (with Tim Newburn and Paul Rock) has been on the official history of criminal justice policy in England and Wales 1960-1997.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Published writings; The teen canteen: in at the end; Educating for uncertainty (with Fred Flower); Delinquent subcultures in Stepney and Poplar: informal observation; Summary and conclusions; Gambling as a sociological problem; Gambling as a social problem (with B.P. Davies, M.E. David and P. Stone); Promise and performance in British criminology; Praxis makes perfect: a critique of critical criminology (with Paul Rock); Abolition: possibilities and pitfalls; Law and order: theft of an issue; Theories of decarceration: problems of accounting for sentencing trends in the Netherlands; The depth of imprisonment: an exploratory study of the Netherlands and England; Employment schemes for offenders; Mitigating the social effects of unemployment; Dumping the 'hostages to fortune'? The politics of law and order in post-war Britain (with Rod Morgan); The macho penal economy: mass incarceration in the United States - a European perspective; Toughing it out: from Labour opposition to Labour government; Visions of penal control in the Netherlands; Name index.

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Book SynopsisThinking about Punishment pulls together the key writings by Michael Tonry on penal policy trends in western countries, racial and ethnic disparities, and sentencing policies, practices, and theories. Recent research in the past few decades shows that these topics are inextricably interrelated. Tonry argues that the distinct historical and cultural characteristics of a country offer the best explanation of national patterns of punishment at any one time, and over time. More general theories and models fall apart when applied to individual national experiences. In the United States, the key factors explaining both penal policy trends and sentencing patterns and policies include historical patterns of race relations, obsolete constitutional arrangements, moral attitudes related to the continental expansion of the United States and the country''s fundamentalist Protestant religious origins. Comparable - but different - characteristics explain other countries'' experiences. This exceTrade Review'... a valuable contribution to any public library shelf and of value to anyone interested in the development of contemporary penal thinking.' Prison Service Journal 'It is worth reflecting on the sheer breadth of the contributions here...this impressive book' International Criminal Law ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Race and Ethnicity: Malign neglect; Ethnicity, crime and immigration; The malign effects of drugs and crime control policies on black Americans, (with Matthew Melewski). Part II Comparative Penal Policy: Symbol, substance and severity in Western penal policies; Punishment policies and patterns in Western countries; Determinants of penal policies. Part III American Penal Policy: Sense and sensibility in American penal culture; Cycles and sensibilities; Emerging explanations of American punishment policies. Part IV Sentencing Policy: Sentencing reform in America (with Norval Morris); Mandatory penalties; Sentencing matters; Purposes and functions of sentencing. Part V Punishment Theory: Interchangeability of punishments in principle; Proportionality, parsimony, and interchangeability of punishments; Obsolescence and immanence in penal theory and policy. Name Index.

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Book SynopsisA Criminological Imagination contains a selection of key articles from Pat Carlen''s research studies of magistrates'' courts and women''s imprisonment together with a range of other articles on social control, discourse analysis, ideology, punishment, criminology and critique. They are all informed by an assumption that while criminal justice must remain imaginary in societies based upon unequal and exploitative social relations, one task of a criminological imagination might be to suggest why this is so, and how things could be otherwise. This is an invaluable collection for anyone interested in crime, justice and injustice and the social, political and academic contexts in which knowledge of them is constructed.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Published writings; Part I Discourse/Ideology/Social Control: The staging of magistrates' justice; Magistrates courts: a game theoretic analysis; Remedial routines for the maintenance of control in magistrates' courts; Official discourse (with F. Burton); Controlling measures: the repackaging of common-sense opposition to women's imprisonment in England and Canada; Imaginary penalities and risk-crazed governance. Part II Women/Prisons/Punishment: Virginia, criminology and the anti-social control of women; Papa's discipline: an analysis of disciplinary modes in the Scottish women’s prison; Why study women's imprisonment? Or anyone else's?; On rights and powers: some notes on penal politics; Crime, inequality and sentencing; 'Underclass' crime and imprisonment: the continuing need for agendas of utopianism, abolitionism and socialism in criminology and criminal justice; Death and the triumph of governance? Lessons from the Scottish women's prison; Imprisonment and the penal body politic: the cancer of disciplinary governance; Analyzing women's imprisonment: abolition and its enemies. Part III Feminism/Criminology/Critique: Against the politics of sex discrimination: for the politics of difference and a women-wise approach to sentencing; Criminal women and criminal justice: the limits to, and potential of, feminist and left realist perspectives; Criminology Ltd: the search for a paradigm; Critical criminology? In praise of an oxymoron and its enemies; Official discourse, comic relief and the play of governance; Name Index.

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Book SynopsisA central component of justice is how the economic goods are distributed in a society. Philosophers contribute to distributive justice debates by providing arguments for principles to guide and evaluate the allocation of economic goods and to guide the design of institutions to achieve more just distributions. This volume includes both seminal and recent work by philosophers, covering a range of representative positions, including libertarian, egalitarian, desert, and welfare theorists. The introduction to the volume and the selections themselves are designed to allow students and professionals to see some of the most influential pieces that have shaped the field, as well as some key critics of these positions. The articles intersect in such a way as to develop an appreciation of the types of theories and the central issues addressed by theories of distributive justice. Furthermore, the choice of authors in this collection reflects an appreciation of the influence of institutions in general, markets in particular, and even luck on the distribution of economic goods.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Right Libertarianism and Its Critics: Distributive justice, Robert Nozick; Robert Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain: how patterns preserve liberty, G.A. Cohen; Self-ownership, world-ownership, and equality, G.A. Cohen; Taking responsibility, David Schmidtz. Part II Distributive Justice, Fairness and Equality: Distributive justice: what the people think, David Miller; A critical introduction to Rawls' theory of justice, Allen Buchanan; Equal opportunity and moral arbitrariness, Brian Barry; Egalitarian opportunities, Marc Fleurbaey; Complex equality, Michael Walzer. Part III Desert, Distributive Justice and the Market: Distributive justice, David Miller; Justice under capitalism, Jonathan Riley; Incentive income, deserved income, and economic rents, Julian Lamont. Part IV Welfarism and Needs: A skeletal theory of institutions, James Wood Bailey; Basic distributive institutions, James Wood Bailey; Why all welfare states (including laissez-faire ones) are unreasonable, Gerald F. Gaus; Why surfers should be fed: the liberal case for an unconditional basic income, Philippe Van Parijs; The right to an adequate standard of living: justice, autonomy, and the basic needs, David Copp; Name index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a range of influential essays by distinguished philosophers and political theorists on the issue of global justice. Global justice concerns the search for ethical norms that should govern interactions between people, states, corporations and other agents acting in the global arena, as well as the design of social institutions that link them together. This volume includes articles that engage with major theoretical questions such as the applicability of the ideals of social and economic equality to the global sphere, the degree of justified partiality to compatriots, and the nature and extent of the responsibilities of the affluent to address global poverty and other hardships abroad. It also features articles that bring the theoretical insights of global justice thinkers to bear on matters of practical concern to contemporary societies, such as policies associated with immigration, international trade and climate change.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Standards of Global Justice: Assistance-Based Responsibilities to the Global Poor: Famine, affluence and morality, Peter Singer; We don't owe them a thing! A tough-minded but soft-hearted view of aid to the faraway needy, Jan Narveson; Does distance matter morally to the duty to rescue? Frances Myrna Kamm; Contribution-Based Responsibilities to the Global Poor: 'Assisting' the global poor, Thomas W. Pogge; Should we stop thinking about poverty in terms of helping the poor?, Alan Patten; Poverty and the moral significance of contribution, Gerhard Øverland; Cosmopolitans, Global Egalitarians, and Its Critics: The one and many faces of cosmopolitanism, Catherine Lu; Cosmopolitan justice and equalizing opportunities, Simon Caney; The problem of global justice, Thomas Nagel; Against global egalitarianism, David Miller; Egalitarian challenges to global egalitarianism: a critique, Christian Barry and Laura Valentini. Part II Pressing Global Socioeconomic Issues: Governing the Flow of People: Immigration and freedom of association, Christopher Heath Wellman; Democratic theory and border coercion: no right to unilaterally control your own borders, Arash Abizadeh; Justice in migration: a closed borders utopia?, Lea Yp; Climate Change: Global environment and international inequality, Henry Shue; Valuing policies in response to climate change: some ethical issues, John Broome; Saved by disaster? Abrupt climate change, political inertia, and the possibility of an intergenerational arms race, Stephen M. Gardiner; Polycentric systems for coping with collective action and global environmental change, Elinor Ostrom; International Trade: Responsibility and global labor justice, Iris Marion Young; Property rights and the resource curse, Leif Wenar; Fairness in trade I: obligations from trading and the pauper-labor argument, Mathias Risse; Name index.

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Book SynopsisCriminology lost a world leader with the untimely death of Richard Ericson in 2007. Ericson was one of the most prolific, influential and widely cited criminologists of his generation, producing monumental and pathbreaking works on how the criminal justice system and other key institutions attempt to control crime, manage risk and produce security. This volume, edited by three of Professor Ericson''s colleagues and co-authors, presents a sampling of Ericson''s acclaimed work on such topics as juvenile justice, policing, the courts, the media, the insurance industry, and national security. The book is required reading for scholars interested in understanding the dynamics of crime, risk and security and for those eager to learn more about one of the field''s most important and innovative researchers and scholars.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Being free; Social distance and reaction to criminality; The occupational environment of detective work; Dealing with victim-complainants; Order out of court II: the position of the accused and the plea decision (with Patricia M. Baranek); Patrolling the facts: secrecy and publicity in police work; Media and markets (with Patricia M. Baranek and Janet B.L. Chan); How journalists visualize fact; The moral hazards of neo-liberalism: lessons from the private insurance industry (with Dean Barry and Aaron Doyle); The policing of risk (with Kevin D. Haggerty); Uncertainties of earthquakes: absorbing risk, mitigation, and infrastructure (with Aaron Doyle); National security; Name Index.

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