Making sense of criminal justice : policies and practices / G. Larry Mays, Rick Ruddell ; foreword by Alfred Blumstein.
By: Mays, G. Larry
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Contributor(s): Ruddell, Rick.
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BookPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, c2008Description: xvi, 350 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781933220888 (alk. paper); 9780195332445 (pbk. : alk paper).Subject(s): Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States | United States -- Social policy | United States -- Politics and governmentOnline resources: Table of contents only | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Item holds |
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Staff Office | HV9950 .M32 2008 (Browse shelf) | Available | EG- SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The politics and policy dichotomy -- Crime control versus due process -- The search for a guiding philosophy of policing -- Police and the use of force -- Gun control -- Sentencing -- Race, ethnicity, and justice -- Gender and justice -- Wrongful convictions -- -- What are the alternatives? -- Build more prisons? -- The death penalty -- Juvenile crime and violence -- Living in a post-9/11 world -- Making sense of criminal justice.
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