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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael H Tonry |
ISBN: | 9780226097510 022609751X 9780226105925 022610592X |
OCLC Number: | 834405286 |
Notes: | "Initial drafts of the essays in this book were presented as public lectures at the Robina Institute Annual Conference at the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis in April 2012 and were discussed at a seminar, also in Minneapolis, the following two days."--Preface. |
Description: | x, 544 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Evidence, ideology, and politics in the making of American criminal justice policy / Michael Tonry -- The great American gun war : notes from four decades in the trenches / Philip J. Cook -- Why has US drug policy changed so little over 30 years? / Peter Reuter -- Sentencing in America, 1975-2025 / Michael Tonry -- Deterrence in the twenty first century / Daniel S. Nagin -- American youth violence : a cautionary tale / Franklin E. Zimring -- Rehabilitation : beyond nothing works / Francis T. Cullen -- The rise of evidence-based policing : targeting, testing, and tracking / Lawrence W. Sherman -- Longitudinal and experimental research in criminology / David Farrington. |
Series Title: | Crime and justice (Chicago, Ill.), v. 42. |
Responsibility: | edited by Michael Tonry, a review of research edited by Michael Tonry. |
Abstract:
For the American criminal justice system, 1975 was a watershed year. Offender rehabilitation and individualized sentencing fell from favor. The partisan politics of "law and order" took over. This book tells how policy and knowledge did and did not interact over time and charts prospects for the future.
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