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Author : United States Sentencing Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Guidelines Manual written by United States Sentencing Commission and published by . This book was released on 1988-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Greg Berman
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620972247
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Start Here written by Greg Berman and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As heard on NPR's Fresh Air Recommended by The New York Times' Sam Roberts “Start Here is an urgent and timely primer on the approaches that are working and don’t require federal approval or political revolution to end one of the most pressing justice issues the country faces today.” —Brooklyn Daily Eagle A bold agenda for criminal justice reform based on equal parts pragmatism and idealism, from the visionary director of the Center for Court Innovation, a leader of the reform movement Everyone knows that the United States leads the world in incarceration, and that our political process is gridlocked. What can be done right now to reduce the number of people sent to jail and prison? This essential book offers a concrete roadmap for both professionals and general readers who want to move from analysis to action. In this forward-looking, next-generation criminal justice reform book, Greg Berman and Julian Adler of the Center for Court Innovation highlight the key lessons from these programs—engaging the public in preventing crime, treating all defendants with dignity and respect, and linking people to effective community-based interventions rather than locking them up. Along the way, they tell a series of gripping stories, highlighting gang members who have gotten their lives back on track, judges who are transforming their courtrooms, and reformers around the country who are rethinking what justice looks like. While Start Here offers no silver bullets, it does put forth a suite of proven reforms—from alternatives to bail to diversion programs for mentally ill defendants—that will improve the lives of thousands of people right now. Start Here is a must-read for everyone who wants to start dismantling mass incarceration without waiting for a revolution or permission. Proceeds from the book will support the Center for Court Innovation's reform efforts.
Author : Michael H. Tonry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190204680
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Sentencing Fragments written by Michael H. Tonry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Sentencing Matters -- 2. Sentencing Fragments -- 3. Federal Sentencing -- 4. Sentencing Theories -- 5. Sentencing Principles -- 6. Sentencing Futures -- References -- Index.
Author : Sandra Shane-DuBow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Sentencing Reform in the United States written by Sandra Shane-DuBow and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael H. Tonry
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019510787X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Sentencing Reform in Overcrowded Times written by Michael H. Tonry and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this collection originally appeared in the journal “Overcrowded Times”. They provide an overview of sentencing policy, practices, and institution in the United States, other English-speaking countries (Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand & South Africa), and Europe.
Author : Tamasak Wicharaya
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791425084
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Simple Theory, Hard Reality written by Tamasak Wicharaya and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-08-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates the impact of tough sentencing reforms on the courts, prisons, and crime. It also unpacks the resulting policy implications.
Author : Michael O'Hear
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440840881
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform written by Michael O'Hear and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains unprecedentedly high. This book provides the first comprehensive survey of these reforms and explains why they have proven to be ineffective. After many decades of stability, the imprisonment rate in the United States quintupled between 1973 and 2003. Since then, nearly all states have adopted multiple reforms intended to reduce imprisonment, but the U.S. imprisonment rate has only decreased by a paltry 2 percent. Why have American sentencing reforms since 2000 been largely ineffective? Are tough mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders the primary reason our prisons are always full? This book offers a fascinating assessment of the wave of sentencing reforms adopted by dozens of states as well as changes at the federal level since 2000, identifying common themes among seemingly disparate changes in sentencing policy and highlighting recent reform efforts that have been more successful and may point the way forward for the nation as a whole. In The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform, Michael O'Hear exposes the myths that American prison sentencing reforms enacted in the 21st century have failed to have the expected effect because U.S. prisons are filled to capacity with nonviolent drug offenders as a result of the "war on drugs" or because of new laws that took away the discretion of judges and corrections officials. O'Hear then makes a convincing case for the real reasons sentencing reforms have come up short: because they exclude violent and sexual offenders, and because they rely on the discretion of officials who still have every incentive to be highly risk-averse. He also highlights how overlooking the well-being of offenders and their families in our consideration of sentencing reform has undermined efforts to effect real change.
Author : Paul Gendreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780662284062
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Effects of Prison Sentences on Recidivism written by Paul Gendreau and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kay Whitlock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520974808
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Carceral Con written by Kay Whitlock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical examination of how contemporary criminal justice reforms expand rather than shrink structurally violent systems of policing, surveillance, and carceral control in the United States. Public opposition to the structural racist, gendered, and economic violence that fuels the criminal legal system is reaching a critical mass. Ignited by popular uprisings, protests, and campaigns against state violence, demands for transformational change have escalated. In response, a now deeply entrenched so-called bipartisan industry has staked its claim to the reform terrain. Representing itself as a sensible bridge across bitterly polarized political divides and party lines, the bipartisan reform industry has sought to control the nature and scope of local, state, and federal reforms. Along the way, it creates an expanding web of neoliberal public-private partnerships, with the promotion and implementation of efforts managed by billionaires, public officials, policy factories, foundations, universities, and mega nonprofit organizations. Yet many bipartisan reforms constitute deceptive sleights of hand that not only fail to produce justice but actively reproduce structural racial and economic inequality. Carceral Con pulls the veil away from the reform public relations machine, providing a riveting overview of the repressive US carceral state and a critical examination of the reform terrain, quagmires, and choices that face us. This book vividly illustrates how contemporary bipartisan reform agendas leave the structural apparatus of mass incarceration intact while widening the net of carceral control and surveillance. Readers are also provided with information and insights useful for examining the likely impacts of reforms today and in the future. What can we learn from reforms of the past? What strategies hold most promise for dismantling structural inequalities, corporate control, and state violence? What approaches will reduce reliance on carceral control and also bring about community safety? Utilizing an abolitionist lens, Carceral Con makes the compelling case for liberatory approaches to envisioning and creating a just society.
Author : John Pfaff
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465096921
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Locked In written by John Pfaff and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pfaff, let there be no doubt, is a reformer...Nonetheless, he believes that the standard story--popularized in particular by Michelle Alexander, in her influential book, The New Jim Crow--is false. We are desperately in need of reform, he insists, but we must reform the right things, and address the true problem."--Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker A groundbreaking examination of our system of imprisonment, revealing the true causes of mass incarceration as well as the best path to reform In the 1970s, the United States had an incarceration rate comparable to those of other liberal democracies-and that rate had held steady for over 100 years. Yet today, though the US is home to only about 5 percent of the world's population, we hold nearly one quarter of its prisoners. Mass incarceration is now widely considered one of the biggest social and political crises of our age. How did we get to this point? Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country. Having spent fifteen years studying the data on imprisonment, John Pfaff takes apart the reigning consensus created by Michelle Alexander and other reformers, revealing that the most widely accepted explanations-the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing reliance on private prisons-tell us much less than we think. Pfaff urges us to look at other factors instead, including a major shift in prosecutor behavior that occurred in the mid-1990s, when prosecutors began bringing felony charges against arrestees about twice as often as they had before. He describes a fractured criminal justice system, in which counties don't pay for the people they send to state prisons, and in which white suburbs set law and order agendas for more-heavily minority cities. And he shows that if we hope to significantly reduce prison populations, we have no choice but to think differently about how to deal with people convicted of violent crimes-and why some people are violent in the first place. An authoritative, clear-eyed account of a national catastrophe, Locked In transforms our understanding of what ails the American system of punishment and ultimately forces us to reconsider how we can build a more equitable and humane society.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309033470
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Research on Sentencing written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1983-02-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : U S Conference of Catholic Bishops
Publisher : USCCB Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781574553949
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)
Download or read book Responsibility, Rehabilitation and Restoration written by U S Conference of Catholic Bishops and published by USCCB Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely work, the bishops open a new dialogue on crime and justice in the United States.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sentencing Guidelines written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael O’Hear
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299310205
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Wisconsin Sentencing in the Tough-on-Crime Era written by Michael O’Hear and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic increase in U.S. prison populations since the 1970s is often blamed on mandatory sentencing laws, but this case study of a state with judicial discretion in sentencing reveals that other significant factors influence high incarceration rates.
Author : Elizabeth Jeglic
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030775658
Total Pages : 767 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Issues in Criminal Justice Reform in the United States written by Elizabeth Jeglic and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-04 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a holistic and comprehensive examination of issues related to criminal justice reform in the United States from a multidisciplinary perspective. Divided into five key domains of reform in the criminal justice system, it analyzes: - Policing - Policy and sentencing - Reentry - Treatment - Alternatives to incarceration Each section provides a history and overview of the domain within the criminal justice system, followed by chapters discussing issues integral to reform. The volume emphasizes decreasing incarceration and minimizing racial, ethnic and economic inequalities. Each section ends with tangible recommendations, based on evidence-based approaches for reform. Of interest to researchers, scholars, activists and policy makers, this unique volume offers a pathway for the future of criminal justice reform in the United States.
Author : New York (State). Commission on Sentencing Reform
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Future of Sentencing in New York State written by New York (State). Commission on Sentencing Reform and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York (State). Commission on Sentencing Reform
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Future of Sentencing in New York State written by New York (State). Commission on Sentencing Reform and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
