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Author : Martin A. Levin
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ISBN 13 : 9780226475301
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (753 download)
Download or read book Urban Politics and the Criminal Courts written by Martin A. Levin and published by . This book was released on 1979-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin A. Levin
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Urban Politics and Policy Outcomes: The Criminal Courts written by Martin A. Levin and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Dain Stucky
Publisher : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781593320904
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Urban Politics, Crime Rates, and Police Strength written by Thomas Dain Stucky and published by LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stucky (criminal justice, Indiana-Purdue U. at Indianapolis) analyzes the relationship between politics, crime, and police employment, expenditures, and arrests. Using political resource theory, he examines how resources are managed and provides an institutional resource perspective about crime and politics, while discussing social disorganization,
Author : Allen Steinberg
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807864757
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Transformation of Criminal Justice written by Allen Steinberg and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allen Steinberg brings to life the court-centered criminal justice system of nineteenth-century Philadelphia, chronicles its eclipse, and contrasts it to the system -- dominated by the police and public prosecutor -- that replaced it. He offers a major reinterpretation of criminal justice in nineteenth-century America by examining this transformation from private to state prosecution and analyzing the discontinuity between the two systems. Steinberg first establishes why the courts were the sources of law enforcement, authority, and criminal justice before the advent of the police. He shows how the city's system of private prosecution worked, adapted to massive social change, and came to dominate the culture of criminal justice even during the first decades following the introduction of the police. He then considers the dilemmas that prompted reform, beginning with the establishment of a professional police force and culminating in the restructuring of primary justice. Making extensive use of court dockets, state and municipal government publications, public speeches, personal memoirs, newspapers, and other contemporary records, Steinberg explains the intimate connections between private prosecution, the everyday lives of ordinary people, and the conduct of urban politics. He ties the history of Philadelphia's criminal courts closely to related developments in the city's social and political evolution, making a contribution not only to the study of criminal justice but also to the larger literature on urban, social, and legal history. Originally published in 1989. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : James Leslie Walker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Judges as Lawyers and as Public Officials written by James Leslie Walker and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin A. Levin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (296 download)
Download or read book An Empirical Evaluation of Urban Political Systems written by Martin A. Levin and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erika Fairchild
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Crime and Criminal Justice written by Erika Fairchild and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1985 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors examine politics, crime, and criminal justice in the US against a background of attempts to re-establish political accountability for the criminal justice process. Most of the articles are based on original field research across a large number of jurisdictions and approaches. 'Politics' is here defined as the relations of power and influence that occur between those who are professionally involved in the criminal justice system, and those who are part of the political apparatus.
Author : Amy E. Lerman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022613797X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Arresting Citizenship written by Amy E. Lerman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The numbers are staggering: One-third of America’s adult population has passed through the criminal justice system and now has a criminal record. Many more were never convicted, but are nonetheless subject to surveillance by the state. Never before has the American government maintained so vast a network of institutions dedicated solely to the control and confinement of its citizens. A provocative assessment of the contemporary carceral state for American democracy, Arresting Citizenship argues that the broad reach of the criminal justice system has fundamentally recast the relation between citizen and state, resulting in a sizable—and growing—group of second-class citizens. From police stops to court cases and incarceration, at each stage of the criminal justice system individuals belonging to this disempowered group come to experience a state-within-a-state that reflects few of the country’s core democratic values. Through scores of interviews, along with analyses of survey data, Amy E. Lerman and Vesla M. Weaver show how this contact with police, courts, and prisons decreases faith in the capacity of American political institutions to respond to citizens’ concerns and diminishes the sense of full and equal citizenship—even for those who have not been found guilty of any crime. The effects of this increasingly frequent contact with the criminal justice system are wide-ranging—and pernicious—and Lerman and Weaver go on to offer concrete proposals for reforms to reincorporate this large group of citizens as active participants in American civic and political life.
Author : Katherine Beckett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199741344
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Banished written by Katherine Beckett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "disorderly" people continue to occupy public space in many American cities. Concerned about the alleged ill effects their presence inflicts on property values and public safety, many cities have wholeheartedly embraced "zero-tolerance" or "broken window" policing efforts to clear the streets of unwanted people. Through an almost completely unnoticed set of practices, these people are banned from occupying certain spaces. Once zoned out, they are subject to arrest if they return-effectively banished from public places. Banished is the first exploration of these new tactics that dramatically enhance the power of the police to monitor and arrest thousands of city dwellers. Drawing upon an extensive body of data, the authors chart the rise of banishment in Seattle, a city on the leading edge of this emerging trend, to establish how it works and explore its ramifications. They demonstrate that, although the practice allows police and public officials to appear responsive to concerns about urban disorder, it is a highly questionable policy: it is expensive, does not reduce crime, and does not address the underlying conditions that generate urban poverty. Moreover, interviews with the banished themselves reveal that exclusion makes their lives and their path to self-sufficiency immeasurably more difficult. At a time when more and more cities and governments in the U.S. and Europe resort to the criminal justice system to solve complex social problems, Banished provides a vital and timely challenge to exclusionary strategies that diminish the life circumstances and rights of those it targets.
Author : George F. Cole
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Criminal Justice System written by George F. Cole and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an in-depth look at policy issues related to policing, courts, and corrections. It gives students the opportunity to look at difficult issues related to important topics, through an interesting selection of readings. Flexible in its design, the book includes twenty-seven classic and contemporary articles that promote understanding of important issues in the field and encourage readers to think critically about the links between police, politics, law and the administration of justice. Students will explore everything from the crime policies that do or do not work to the latest hot topics.
Author : Sophie Body-Gendrot
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444399209
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book The Social Control of Cities? written by Sophie Body-Gendrot and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking study, Sophie Body-Gendrot provides a comparative analysis of the growing problem of new forms of poverty and social marginalisation in contemporary advanced societies.
Author : Stuart Scheingold
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439905029
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Street Crime written by Stuart Scheingold and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's contradictory attitudes toward crime: repellent danger versus media glamorization.
Author : Isaac D. Balbus
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610440226
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Dialectics of Legal Repression written by Isaac D. Balbus and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1973-07-25 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less than 2 percent of some 4000 adults prosecuted for participating in the bloodiest ghetto revolt of this generation served any time in jail as a result of their conviction and sentencing. Why? Why, in contrast, did the majority of those arrested following a brief and minor confrontation with police in a different city receive far harsher treatment than ordinarily meted out for comparable offenses in "normal" times? What do these incidents tell us about the nature of legal repression in the American state? No coherent theory of political repression in the liberal state exists today. Neither the liberal view of repression as "anomaly" nor the radical view of repression as "fascist core" appears to come to grips with the distinctive characteristics of legal repression in the liberal state. This book attempts to arrive at a more adequate understanding of these "distinctive characteristics" by means of a detailed analysis of the legal response to the most serious violent challenge to the existing political order since the Great Depression—the black ghetto revolts between 1964 and 1968. Using police and court records, and extensive interviews with judges, defense attorneys, prosecutors, and detention officials, Professor Balbus provides a complete reconstruction of the response of the criminal courts of Los Angeles, Detroit, and Chicago to the "civil disorders" that occurred in these cities. What emerges is a disturbing picture of the relationship between court systems and participants and the local political environments in which they operate.
Author : Robert W. Kweit
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135640572
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book People and Politics in Urban America, Second Edition written by Robert W. Kweit and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Approximately 75 percent of Americans live in cities and surrounding suburbs, and the characteristics of those cities inescapably affect the quality of their lives. This book examines the extent to which these Americans use the political process to control the characteristics of life in their metropolises. In addition, this second edition revision places great emphasis on the role of political leaders, while recognising the interdependence between those leaders and various interests in the city.
Author : Michael Willrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521794039
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (94 download)
Download or read book City of Courts written by Michael Willrich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2003 book looks at contesting concepts of crime, and social justice in nineteenth-century industrial America.
Author : Robert W. Kweit
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135640297
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book People & Politics in Urban America written by Robert W. Kweit and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised textbook for courses on urban politics challenges the notion that the field is dominated by political economy, showing that despite the undeniable importance of economic issues, citizens do play a significant part in urban politics.
Author : Herbert Jacob
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300063790
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Courts, Law, and Politics in Comparative Perspective written by Herbert Jacob and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive book compares the intersection of political forces and legal practices in five industrial nations--the United States, England, France, Germany, and Japan. The authors, eminent political scientists and legal scholars, investigate how constitutional courts function in each country, how the adjudication of criminal justice and the processing of civil disputes connect legal systems to politics, and how both ordinary citizens and large corporations use the courts. For each of the five countries, the authors discuss the structure of courts and access to them, the manner in which politics and law are differentiated or amalgamated, whether judicial posts are political prizes or bureaucratic positions, the ways in which courts are perceived as legitimate forms for addressing political conflicts, the degree of legal consciousness among citizens, the kinds of work lawyers do, and the manner in which law and courts are used as social control mechanisms. The authors find that although the extent to which courts participate in policymaking varies dramatically from country to country, judicial responsiveness to perceived public problems is not a uniquely American phenomenon.
