Criminal Law

The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Criminal Justice

By Michael Tonry
Oxford University Press USA September 2013

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780199338283
Publisher
Oxford University Press USA
Publication
September 2013
Format
Paperback , 992 pages
Jurisdiction
U.S. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

  • This handbook is an accessible, high-quality, and comprehensive introduction to and overview of the operation of the American criminal justice system.
  • It provides contributions on hot-button topics, from immigration, terrorism, and racial profiling, as well as bread and butter issues like jails, drugs, and police strategy.

Although criminal justice systems in developed Western countries are much alike in form, structure, and function, the American system is unique. While it is structurally similar to those of other Western countries, the punishments it imposes are often vastly harsher. No other Western country retains capital punishment or regularly employs life-without-parole, three-strikes, or lengthy mandatory minimum sentencing laws. As a result, the U.S. imprisonment rate of nearly 800 per 100,000 residents dwarfs rates elsewhere. 

The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Criminal Justice is an essential guide to the development and operation of the American criminal justice system. A leading scholar in the field and an experienced editor, Michael Tonry has brought together a team of first-rate scholars to provide an authoritative and comprehensive overview and introduction to this crucial institution. Expertly organized, the various sections of the Handbook explore the American criminal justice system from a variety of perspectives-including its purposes, functions, problems, and priorities-and present analyses of police and policing, juvenile justice, prosecution and sentencing, and community and institutional corrections, making it a complete and unrivaled portrait of how America approaches crime and criminal justice, and giving persuasive answers as to why and how it has developed to what it is today.

Accessibly written for a wide audience, the Handbook serves as a definitive reference for scholars and a broad survey for students in criminology and criminal justice.

 

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students in criminology, criminal justice, sociology, law, and public policy.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
1. Crime and Criminal Justice (Michael Tonry)
2. Crime Trends (Eric Baumer)
3. Evidence-based Crime Policy (Brandon C. Welsh and David P. Farrington)
Purposes and Functions
4. Punishment (Michael Tonry)
5. Crime Prevention (Brandon C. Welsh)
6. Treatment and Rehabilitation (Frank T. Cullen and Paula Smith)
7. General Deterrence (Robert Apel and Daniel Nagin)
8. Reparation and Restoration (Kathy Daly and Gitana Proietti-Scifoni)
9. Reassurance, Reinforcement, and Legitimacy (Matt Matravers)
Problems and Priorities
10. Drugs and Crime (Jonathan P. Caulkins and Mark A. R. Kleiman)
11. Race, Ethnicity, and Crime (Cassia Spohn)
12. Sex, Gender, and Crime (Rosemary Gartner)
13. Immigrants and Crime (Sandra Bucerius)
14. Guns and Crime (Charles Wellford)
15. Work and Crime (Aaron Chalfin and Steven Raphael)
Police and Policing
16. Police Organization (Stephen D. Mastrofski and James J. Willis)
17. Police and Crime Control (Lawrence W. Sherman)
18. Community and Problem-oriented Policing (Michael D. Reisig)
19. Legitimacy and Lawful Policing (Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic)
Juvenile Justice
20. Juvenile Justice (Barry C. Feld and Donna M. Bishop)
Prosecution and Sentencing
21. Prosecution (Candace McCoy)
22. Sentencing (Brian Johnson)
23. Mandatory Penalties (Michael Tonry)
24. Capital Punishment (Ray Paternoster)
Community and Institutional Corrections
25. Jails and Pretrial Release (Brandon Applegate)
26. Probation and Community Penalties (Stan C. Proband)
27. Drug and Other Specialty Courts (Ojmarrh Mitchell)
28. Prisons (Yvonne Jewkes)
29. Women's Prisons (Candace Kruttschnitt)
30. Parole and Prisoner Reentry (Joan Petersilia)

About the Author

Michael Tonry is Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota

 

 

 

 

Contributors: 
Robert Apel is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Albany, State University of New York.

Brandon K. Applegate is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies at the University of Central Florida.

Eric P. Baumer is Allen E. Liska Professor of Criminology at Florida State University.

Donna M. Bishop is Professor of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies at the University of Central Florida.

Sandra Bucerius is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Toronto.

Jonathan P. Caulkins is Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

Aaron Chalfin is Graduate Student Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.

Frank T. Cullen is Distinguished Research Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati.

Kathleen Daly is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University.

David P. Farrington is Professor of Psychological Criminology at the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University.

Barry C. Feld is Centennial Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Rosemary Gartner is Professor of Criminology and Sociology at the University of Toronto.

Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic is Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University.

Yvonne Jewkes is Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester.

Brian Johnson is Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland College Park.

Mark A.R. Kleiman is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Candace Kruttschnitt is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Toronto.

Stephen D. Mastrofski is University Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University.

Matt Matravers is Professor of Politics at the University of York.

Candace McCoy is Professor of Criminal Justice at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Ojmarrh Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Daniel Nagin is Teresa and H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University.

Ray Paternoster is Professor of Criminology at the University of Maryland College Park.

Joan Petersilia is Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford University.

Stan C. Proband is Contributing Editor for The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Criminal Justice.

Gitana Proietti-Scifoni is Research Assistant at the Key Center for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University.

Steven Raphael is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Michael D. Reisig is Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University.

Lawrence W. Sherman is Director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Paula Smith is Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati Corrections Institute.

Cassia Spohn is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University.

Michael Tonry is Russell M. and Elizabeth M. Bennett Chair in Excellence at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Charles Wellford is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland College Park.

Brandon C. Welsh is Associate Professor in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University.

James J. Willis is Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University.

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