Early in his judicial career, U.S. District Judge Warren K. Urbom was assigned a yearlong string of criminal trials arising from a seventy-one-day armed standoff between the American Indian Movement a
Of the 21 chapters presented here, Roberts (criminal justice, Rutgers) wrote 10 and rounded up contributions from other juvenile justice specialists who could complement his own areas of expertise. Th
In this book, Brian Forst takes a fresh perspective on the assessment of criminal justice policy, examining the prospect of assessing policies based on their impact on errors of justice: the error of failing to bring offenders to justice, on the one hand, and the error of imposing costs on innocent people and excessive costs on offenders, on the other. Noting that we have sophisticated systems for managing errors in statistical inference and quality control processes and no parallel system for managing errors of a more socially costly variety - on matters of guilt and innocence - the author lays the foundation for a common sense approach to the management of errors in the criminal justice system, from policing and prosecution to sentencing and corrections. He examines the sources of error in each sector, the harms they impose on society, and frameworks for analyzing and reducing them.
Van Wormer (social work, U. of Vermont) and Walker (restorative justice, U. of Hawaii Honolulu Community College) assemble a group of social work, law, criminal justice, restorative justice, and other
Drawing on the international literature and original empirical research from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, Youth Justice in Context examines the influence of legislative, organizationa
This book, now in paperback, focuses on the world's first publicly-funded body to review alleged miscarriages of justice, set up in the wake of notorious cases such as the Guildford Four and the Birmi
We offer these texts bundled together at a discount for your students.Callie Marie Rennison and Mary Dodge, Introduction to Criminal JusticeIntroduction to Criminal Justice: Systems, Diversity, and Ch
Understanding risk in criminal justice examines the significance of the concept of risk in criminal justice policy, and in the role of criminal justice agencies and crime prevention initiatives. It pr
The Dictionary of Criminal Justice, Seventh Edition, brings together in one, easy-to-use guide more than 3,600 definitions from the many disciplines that compose the field of criminal justice—includin
