Making sense of criminal justice
Subtitle: policies and practices
By: G. Larry Mays, Rick Ruddell ; foreword by Alfred Blumstein.
Contributors: Ruddell, Rick, 1961-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781933220888
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States; Criminal justice -- Government policy -- United States; United States -- Social policy; United States -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The politics and policy dichotomy; title: Crime control versus due process; title: The search for a guiding philosophy of policing; title: Police and the use of force; title: Gun control; title: Sentencing; title: Race, ethnicity, and justice; title: Gender and justice; title: Wrongful convictions; title: What are the alternatives?; title: Build more prisons?; title: The death penalty; title: Juvenile crime and violence; title: Living in a post-9/11 world; title: Making sense of criminal justice.