The Crime Conundrum: Essays on Criminal Justice

ISBN-13: 9780367291082 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str.

Lawrence M. Friedman; George Fisher

Opis

This collection is from discussions at a conference by a group of scholars who study crime or criminal justice at Stanford Law School in October 1995. The central question for discussion was the relationship between crime and criminal justice.

Spis treści

Some Thoughts about Crime and Punishment -- Market, Crime and Community: Toward a Mid-Range Theory of Post-Industrial Violence -- Some Perspective on Crime and Criminal Justice Policy -- Age and Homicide in Different National Contexts -- Crime and Capitalization in the Czech Republic -- Trial by Jury, the Legitimacy of the Courts, and Crime Control -- Ideology and American Crime Policy, 1966-1996: An Exploratory Essay -- Some Thoughts about Police and Crime -- Cells vs. Cops vs. Classrooms -- Homicide over the Centuries -- Governing Through Crime -- Wars on Crime — Struggles for Justice: Conflicting Trends in American Criminal Justice, 1970-1995

O autorze

Lawrence M. Friedman is Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford University. Harry N. Scheiber is the Stefan Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History, Boalt Hall School of Law, in the University of California at Berkeley.