Sensible Justice
Subtitle: Alternatives to Prison
Publisher: New Press; New Press, The; The New Press; distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: October 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781565843899
Subjects: Penology & punishment; Sociology; Criminology; Correction Of Crime And Delinquency; Treatment Of Offenders; United States; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Penology; Criminal Law - General; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Corrections; Alternatives to imprisonment; Criminal justice, Administrati; Criminal justice, Administration of
Description: Sensible Justice explores creative solutions some states and cities nationwide have devised to tackle America's expensive and controversial prison problem.

Former Wall Street Journal and New York Times editor David Anderson spent a year touring the world of "alternative sanctions" that substitute for prison, including work to repay the community or earn restitution for victims; house arrest under high-tech electronic supervision; the military routine of correctional "boot camps;" and counseling for drug addicts and sex offenders.

Alternative sanctions - some thriving quietly even in conservative states where headlines feature harsh law-and-order rhetoric - are demonstrating that rehabilitation works, while saving taxpayers millions of dollars. Just as importantly, Anderson writes, by reinforcing an ethical society's basic values, these programs allow communities to make sense of criminal justice.