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| Format physique additionnel : | Online version: Cook, John Raymond, 1962- Asphalt justice. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001 (OCoLC)606422560 Online version: Cook, John Raymond, 1962- Asphalt justice. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001 (OCoLC)607675292 |
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| Type d’ouvrage : | Ressource Internet |
| Format : | Livre, Ressource Internet |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : |
John Raymond Cook |
| ISBN : | 0275968278 9780275968274 |
| Numéro OCLC : | 43403476 |
| Description : | xii, 211 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contenu : | Get Smart on Crime -- A House Built on Sand -- Two Sides of the Same Coin -- Politicians and Bureaucrats: Garbage In, Garbage Out -- Ball Four: "Solutions" That Miss the Plate -- Gangs, Militias, and Organized Crime -- Juvenile Crime -- Insanity and Mental Health -- Coercive Treatment, Civil Liberties, and Change -- The New Gulag: The Failure of Prison Architecture -- Get Smart on Crime, Part II -- Classification and Treatment: Earning Release -- Prevention Is Not a Four-Letter Word. |
| Titre de collection : | Praeger series in criminology and crime control policy. |
| Autres titres : | Critique of the criminal justice system in America |
| Responsabilité : | John Raymond Cook. |
Résumé :
In this book, John Raymond Cook challenges the current criminal justice emphasis on incarceration and punishment and encourages instead a focus on rehabilitation and treatment. Cook argues that the failure to encourage treatment and rehabilitation is extremely shortsighted and serves only to postpone societal ills. He examines the prison experience as a psychological experience and suggests that restructuring the prison environment to focus on changing the behavior of criminals will ultimately be more cost effective and more beneficial to society. Approaching the problem of crime in a coordinated and systematic way will produce more results than the current reliance on political posturing and media sound bites. Recent formulation of crime policy often seems driven by statistically rare and exceptional events, and the new laws passed in response to sensational events have actually resulted in an ever-growing and increasingly violent criminal underclass. Similarly, the trend toward incarceration and extreme punishment as the primary means of correction has led to unfortunate consequences. Overcrowding, massive prison construction, and the siphoning of funds from the rest of the public sector are all "get tough" byproducts. This study proposes solutions to current systemic problems aimed at those interested in trying to develop plans or treatment strategies within correctional settings.
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