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  • Criminal Courts

    A Contemporary Perspective

    by Craig T. Hemmens, David C. Brody, Cassia Spohn ...
    Comprehensive and engaging, Criminal Courts: A Contemporary Perspective deepens your students′ understanding by thoroughly examining the courts and their vital role in the criminal justice system. The Sixth Edition introduces updated content, including discussions on evolving marijuana laws, the balance between victims′ and defendants′ rights, court-administered bail, and domestic violence courts. ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Violence against Women

    by Dawn Beichner, Spencer E. Cahill, Martin Daly, Erika Davis-Frenzel, Kirsten Dellinger, R Emerson Dobash, Russell P. Dobash, Robert M. Emerson, Kathleen J. Ferraro, Kerry O. Ferris, Patricia Gagné, Carol Brooks Gardner, Demie Kurz, Donileen R. Loseke, Joseph Marolla, Diana Scully, Cassia Spohn, Kathleen J. Tierney, Christine L. Williams, Margo Wilson, Patricia Yancey Martin ...
    Series series Understanding Social Problems: An SSSP Presidential Series
    Research and advocacy aimed at understanding and ending violence against women had its beginning in the early 1970s, emerging as a central concern of the feminist movement. This work has expanded exponentially over the past three decades to influence practice and policy at the local, state, and federal levels. Many of the most influential articles in the field were published in Social Problems. ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Handbook on Sentencing Policies and Practices in the 21st Century

    Edited by Cassia Spohn, Pauline Brennan ...
    Series series The ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Handbook Series
    Sentencing Policies and Practices in the 21st Century focuses on the evolution and consequences of sentencing policies and practices, with sentencing broadly defined to include plea bargaining, judicial and juror decision making, and alternatives to incarceration, including participation in problem-solving courts.This collection of essays and reports of original research explores how sentencing ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Rape Law Reform

    A Grassroots Revolution and Its Impact

    by Cassia Spohn, Julie Horney ...
    Series series The Plenum Series in Crime and Justice
    This book evolved from our interest in rape as feminists and as sodal sdentists. As feminists, we were concemed about the treatment of rape victims and the attrition in rape cases under traditional rape law, and we welcomed legal reforms designed to improve the situation. As sodal sdentists, we wondered about the efficacy of legal changes aimed at an inherently resistant court system. We also were ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • How Do Judges Decide?

    The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment

    by Cassia Spohn ...
    How are sentences for federal, state, and local crimes determined?Is this process fairly and justly applied to all concerned?How have reforms affected the process over the last 25 years?Offering a comprehensive overview of the sentencing process in the United States, How Do Judges Decide? The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment explores these questions and more. Author Cassia Spohn first ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Drugs, Crime, and Justice

    by Cassia Spohn, Steven R. Belenko ...
    Drugs, Crime, and Justice is an engaging, yet comprehensive, analysis of the interrelationships among drug use/abuse, crime, and justice. The first four chapters introduce readers to the interrelationships between drugs and crime, while the second later chapters provide readers with an overview of historical and contemporary policies, as well as a comprehensive review of research on policing drug ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

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  • A Plague of Prisons

    The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America

    by Ernest Drucker ...
    The public health expert and prison reform activist offers "meticulous analysis" on our criminal justice system and the plague of American incarceration ( The Washington Post).An internationally recognized public health scholar, Ernest Drucker uses the tools of epidemiology to demonstrate that incarceration in the United States has become an epidemic—a plague upon our body politic. He argues that ... Read more

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  • When Prisoners Come Home

    Parole and Prisoner Reentry

    by Joan Petersilia ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Every year, hundreds of thousands of jailed Americans leave prison and return to society. Largely uneducated, unskilled, often without family support, and with the stigma of a prison record hanging over them, many if not most will experience serious social and psychological problems after release. Fewer than one in three prisoners receive substance abuse or mental health treatment while ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Crime and Public Policy

    Edited by James Q. Wilson, Joan Petersilia ...
    Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years, as have the policy approaches to deal with it. During this time criminologists and other scholars have helped to shed light on the role of incarceration, prevention, drugs, guns, policing, and numerous other aspects to crime control. Yet the latest research is rarely heard in public discussions and is often missing ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Thinking About Crime

    by James Q. Wilson ...
    As crime rates inexorably rose during the tumultuous years of the 1970s, disputes over how to handle the violence sweeping the nation quickly escalated. James Q. Wilson redefined the public debate by offering a brilliant and provocative new argument-that criminal activity is largely rational and shaped by the rewards and penalties it offers-and forever changed the way Americans think about crime. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Prisoner Reentry and Social Capital

    The Long Road to Reintegration

    by Angela J. Hattery, Earl Smith ...
    "If you do the crime you gotta do the time." This adage reflects the overall attitude most Americans have about crime and the criminal justice system. Implicit in this adage is the notion that once "the time" is done, the individual is free to re-enter society and resume a normal life. In Prisoner Re-entry and Social Capital, authors Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery challenge this myth. Prisoner ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Private Guns, Public Health, New Ed.

    by David Hemenway ...
    On an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill over ninety people and wound about three hundred more; yet such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence. Private Guns, Public Health reveals the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem—an approach that emphasizes prevention over punishment and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD