Justice Reinvestment: Can the Criminal Justice System Deliver More for Less?

ISBN-13: 9780415500340 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 246 str.

Chris Fox; Kevin Albertson; Kevin Wong

Opis

Justice Reinvestment is a major movement in criminal justice reform in the US and is attracting lots of interest in the UK from both sides of the political spectrum. It is an approach to addressing the penal crisis that looks in detail at the causes of offending that result in offenders ending up in custody. In particular, it examines the factors that result in a disproportionate number of offenders coming from certain communities and neighbourhoods and looks to develop more holistic approaches to reducing offending and re-offending that address the totality of an offender career.

This book looks at the experience of Justice Reinvestment in the US and the challenges that this particular type of holistic, evidence-based, economically driven approach to criminal justice reform will pose in the UK. It unpacks the economics ideas that underpin it as well as examining the key methodologies that are used in its implementation and the implementation challenges that Justice Reinvestment has raised in the US and will raise in the UK.

Recenzje

"This book provides a timely overview of the success, or otherwise, of JR (justice reinvestment) approaches as we near a new general election and the end of a political cycle… The authors are particularly strong on the application of economics in JR, emphasising the social justice aspirations of the movement as opposed to a narrower economics-based criminology informed by Rational Choice theory." – Andrew Neilson, Director of Campaigns, the Howard League for Penal Reform

Spis treści

1. Introduction, 2. Rising prison numbers: the key challenge for criminal justice policy, 3. Justice Reinvestment overview, 4. A new approach to criminal justice policy, 5. Justice mapping, 6. Justice Reinvestment and evidence-based policy, 7. The economics of criminal justice policy, 8. New ways of financing criminal justice interventions: Payment by results and Social Impact Bonds, 9. Conclusion.

O autorze

Chris Fox is Professor of Evaluation, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Kevin Albertson is Principal Lecturer in Economics, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Kevin Wong is Deputy Director, Hallam Centre for Community Justice.