The New Criminal Justice: American Communities and the Changing World of Crime Control

ISBN-13: 9780415997287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 178 str.

John Klofas

Opis

Criminal Justice in the United States is in the midst of momentous changes: an era of low crime rates not seen since the 1960s, and a variety of budget crunches also exerting profound impacts on the system. This is the first book available to chronicle these changes and suggest a new, emerging model to the Criminal Justice system, emphasizing:

• collaboration across agencies previously viewed as relatively autonomous
• a focus on location problems and local solutions rather than a widely shared understanding of crime or broad application of similar interventions
• a deep commitment to research which guides problem assessment and policy formulation and intervention.

Ideal for use in graduate, as well as undergraduate capstone courses.

Spis treści

Section 1: The Changing World of Criminal Justice  1. The New Criminal Justice  2. Modeling the New Criminal Justice  3. Strategic Problem Solving in Criminal Justice  Section 2: The New Criminal Justice in Practice  4. Building Successful Partnerships – Lessons from the Strategic Approaches to  5. Project Exile Gun Crime Reduction  6. Strategic Problem Solving Gun Crime Reduction  7. Identifying Effective Policing Strategies for Reducing Crime  8. The Drug Market Initiative in Rockford, Illinois  Section 3: New Knowledge for New Practice in Criminal Justice  9. Action Research for Crime Control and Prevention  10. Added Value through a Partnership Model of Action Research  11. The Participation of Academics in the Criminal Justice Working Group Process  12. Collaborations between Police and Research/Academic Organizations. Some Prescriptions from the Field  13. The Challenge of Timeliness and Utility in Research and Evaluation  Section 4: Some Final Thoughts on the New Criminal Justice  14. Accumulating Lessons from Project Safe Neighborhoods  15. Post Script. Teaching the New Criminal Justice