Title: Criminal violence, criminal justice /
Authors: Silberman, Charles E., 1925-
Publisher: Random House,
Year: 1978
Subjects: Violence United States; Crime United States; Criminal justice, Administration of United States
Abstract: Analyzes the current increase in criminal violence in the United States and examines the criminal justice system.
Contents: Foreword -- Fear -- As American as Jesse James -- Robber, hustlers, and other dudes -- Poverty and crime -- "Beware the day they change their minds": race, culture, and crime -- "The insufficiency of human institutions": an introduction to the criminal justice system -- The wisdom of Solomon, the patience of Job: what the police do--and won't do -- Perry Mason in Wonderland: what happens in criminal court -- Juvenile justice: "How could it have happened when we were so sincere?" -- "To reclimb the slope": the limits of correctional reform -- Afterword: "Whatever is, is possible" -- Appendix: notes on crime statistics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.