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Penal Reform in Overcrowded Times
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 60.00This volume brings together a collection of articles on penal reform in the United States, Europe, Japan, and other English-speaking countries. Unique and wide-ranging, the volume provides material on penal policy development and research and presents an international, comparative focus. Written by leading national and international authorities, it... more...
Sentencing Matters
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 42.00Michael Tonry, an internationally recognized authority on criminology, offers in these pages a comprehensive overview of current research, policy developments, and practical experiences concerning sentencing and sanctions. He examines the effects of increased penalties and considers whether they have made America a safer place. Tonry contends that... more...
Thinking About Crime
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 18.99Examines the American crime policy. This book explains how the worst policies can be undone and how the avoidable human suffering they produce can be diminished. It presents a treatment of crime as a social problem. more...
The Future of Imprisonment
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 44.99"The Future of Imprisonment" unites some of the leading prison and penal policy scholars of our time to address fundamental questions. Inspired by the work of Norval Morris, the contributors look back to the past twenty-five years of penal policy in an effort to look forward to the prison's twenty-first century future. more...
The Handbook of Crime and Punishment
Oxford University Press, USA 2000; US$ 64.99Introduction: Crime and Punishment in America Michael Tonry. Part I: The Context. 1. Crime, Criminal Justice, and Public Opinion, Julian V. Roberts & Loretta J. Stalans. 2. Minorities, Crime, and Criminal Justice, Janet L. Lauritsen & Robert J. Sampson. 3. Gender, Crime, and Criminology, Kathleen Daly. Part II: Topical Crime Problems. 4. Street Gangs,... more...
Confronting Crime
Willan Publishing 2003; US$ 94.95From Labour's promise to be 'tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime' through to the White Paper and new criminal justice legislation, controlling crime and reforming the criminal justice system has been one of the government's key priorities. This book provides a detailed review of the thinking behind these new plans and legislation, looking... more...
Punishment Politics
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Labour has embarked upon a root and branch remaking of the criminal justice system in England and Wales, with a mass of new legislation implemented or planned. It has ensured a continuously high profile for criminal justice issues, and they have been at the centre of wider political discourse. Yet the basis and evidence on which these reforms are being... more...
The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Criminal Justice
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 174.99This handbook provides an accessible, high-quality, and comprehensive introduction to and overview of the operation of the American criminal justice system. It is divided into five sections covering the purposes and functions of the system, its problems and priorities, and its main institutions-police and policing, prosecution and sentencing, and community... more...
Retributivism Has a Past
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 48.99For nearly two centuries in the United States, the punishment of crime was largely aimed, in theory and in practice, at prevention, rehabilitation or incapacitation, and deterrence. In the mid-1970s, a sharp-and some argued permanent-shift occurred. Punishment in the criminal justice system became first and foremost about retribution. Retribution trumped... more...
Punishing Race
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 18.99How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison? Blacks are much more likely than whites to be stopped by the police, arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned, and... more...









