Crime and justice in America, 1975-2025

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Label

Crime and justice in America, 1975-2025

Statement of responsibility

edited by Michael Tonry

Title variation

Crime and justice: a review of research

Title variation date

volume 42

Contributor

• Tonry, Michael H.

Editor

• Tonry, Michael H.

Subject

• Criminal justice, Administration of
• Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States -- History
• Criminology
• Criminology -- United States -- History
• United States

Language

eng

Summary

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. Among the results four decades later are the world's harshest punishments and highest imprisonment rate. Policymakers' interest in what science could tell them plummeted just when scientific work on crime, recidivism, and the justice system began to blossom. Some policy areas such as sentencing, gun violence, drugs, youth violence, became evidence-free zones. In others, developmental crime prevention, policing, recidivism studies, evidence mattered. This volume tells how policy and knowledge did and did not interact over time, considers contemporary problems, and charts prospects for the future. What accounts for the timing of particular issues and research advances? What did science learn or reveal about crime and justice, and how did that knowledge influence policy? Where are we now, and, perhaps even more important, where are we going? -- From book jacket

Member of

• Crime and justice (Chicago, Ill.), v. 42

Cataloging source

ICU/DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HV6001

LC item number

.C672 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Crime and justice,

Series volume

volume 42