Past methods of probation and parole supervision have largely relied on caseworkers who monitor their clients as well as they can. But, as numbers of clients increase, studies indicate that this model is ineffectual. This work looks at the efforts to explicitly integrate the community and the criminal justice process in probation programs.
Past methods of probation and parole supervision have largely relied on caseworkers who monitor their clients as well as they can. But, as numbers of ...
This book analyzes the sources and results of the fourfold increase in the U.S. correctional population since 1970. It considers the following themes: the value of punitiveness, defined as penal harm; research on crime and criminals; concerns about victims of crime; and concerns about community safety. It also analyzes the relationship between social problems and penal harm, such as poverty and crime during the twenty-year period of correctional expansion. The author argues that a careful review of proposals for expanded penal harm cannot be justified. The growth in corrections was not...
This book analyzes the sources and results of the fourfold increase in the U.S. correctional population since 1970. It considers the following themes:...
Over the past quarter-century, U.S. politicians have responded to the public's fear of crime by devoting ever more resources to building and strengthening the criminal justice apparatus, which as a result has grown tremendously in size and cost. Policymakers have also taken steps to toughen procedures for dealing with suspects and criminals, and broaden legal definitions of what constitutes crime, which has led to the incarceration, under harsher-than-ever conditions, of a record-high percentage of the U.S. population. Yet public confidence in the criminal justice apparatus is, if anything,...
Over the past quarter-century, U.S. politicians have responded to the public's fear of crime by devoting ever more resources to building and strengthe...
