description: North America's obsession with the control of criminals has led to the expenditure of more than one hundred billion dollars per year on police, courts and prisons. The criminal control industry has grown at the expense of strategies aimed at reducing In The Criminal Justice Alternative Measures, nine outstanding critics of the crime control industry present alternatives to the existing criminal justice system. The main theme of the collection is that crime is a community problem, and that solutions to the occurrence of crime lie within the community.
language: English
title: The Criminal Justice System: Alternative Measures
titlecomplete: The Criminal Justice System: Alternative Measures
publisher: Canadian Scholars Press