Synopses & Reviews
Featuring all 23 policy proposals and 30 response essays presented at the American Society of Criminology's 2009 annual meeting, CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY is an outstanding new anthology of policy-focused essays. This thought-provoking text presents sections on justice policy, drug policy, terrorism policy, immigration policy, policing policy, juvenile justice policy, and corrections policy, and includes essays by some of the leading criminologists in the field. Edited by ASC President Todd Clear along with Natasha Frost and Joshua Freilich, this book's succinct format makes it an invaluable resource for those studying criminology and criminal justice, and one that readers will reference again and again.
Synopsis
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY, 1/e is a concise and easy-to-use reference resource for those studying criminology and criminal justice. This exciting and thought-provoking new anthology features all of the proposals and response essays presented at the November, 2010 American Society of Criminology conference.
About the Author
Natasha A. Frost, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. She holds a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the City University of New York's Graduate School and University Center. Natasha's primary research and teaching interests are in the area of punishment and social control. Specifically, she is interested in punitiveness (both individual and state level), formal and informal social control, and the effects of incarceration and reentry on individuals, families, and communities. Natasha has recently published in Criminology and Public Policy, Punishment and Society, Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, and the Journal of Criminal Justice Education. She is co-author of the book, The Punishment Imperative (with Todd Clear), that will be published by NYU Press in 2010. From 2000-2007, she served as Founding Managing Editor and then Associate Editor of the journal Criminology and Public Policy (CPP).Joshua D. Freilich is the Deputy Director of the Criminal Justice Ph.D. program and a member of the Criminal Justice department at John Jay College, the City University of New York. He is a lead investigator for the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a Center of Excellence of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Since 2006, Freilich has created and directed (with Steven Chermak) the United States Extremist Crime Database (ECDB), the first of its kind relational database on the suspects, victims, events, and group characteristics of violent and financial crimes committed by far-rightists, environmental/animal rights extremists, and jihadists in the United States. The ECDB has been funded by both DHS directly, and through START. Freilich's research has been published in Behavioral Science and the Law, Crime Prevention Studies, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Criminology and Public Policy, Journal of Criminal Justice, Justice Quarterly, Law and Human Behavior, Prison Journal, and Terrorism and Political Violence.Todd R. Clear is Distinguished Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York. In addition, he has written several books and is founding editor of the journal CRIMINOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY (ASC). He has conducted extensive research on a range of topics in corrections, including sentencing policy, probation and parole supervision, institutional programs, corrections administration, and community justice. He has received awards from the American Probation and Parole Association, the International Association of Community Corrections, and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges for his work. During 2001, he was president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and vice president of the American Society of Criminology. Among his books are CONTROLLING THE OFFENDER IN THE COMMUNITY (with V. O'Leary); HARM IN AMERICAN PENOLOGY, THE COMMUNITY JUSTICE IDEAL (with David Karp); and AMERICAN CORRECTIONS (with G. Cole).
Table of Contents
Part 1: FAMILY. Investing Where It Counts: Preventing Delinquency and Crime with Early Family-Based Programs. Brandon C. Welsh and Alex R. Piquero. Cost-Effective Crime Prevention. Jens Ludwig. Keeping Up with the Jurisdiction Next Door: Access to and Use of Evidence Regarding Effective Prevention Programs for High-Risk Families. Peter W. Greenwood. Part 2. EDUCATION. The Influence of Racial Threat in Schools: Recent Research Findings. Kelly Welch. Racial Threat and Schools: Looking Beyond the Boundaries of Criminology. Aaron Kupchik. The Impact of Recent School Discipline Research on Racial Threat Theory. Cyndy Caravelis Hughes. "No Time to Talk": A Cautiously Optimistic Tale of Restorative Justice and Related Approaches to School Discipline. Gordon Bazemore and Mara Schiff From Social Control to Social Engagement: Enabling the "Time and Space" to Talk Through Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation. Brenda Morrison. Talking Back to Bazemore and Schiff: A Discussion of Restorative Justice Interventions in Schools. Hilary Cremin. Part 3. RELIGION . Crime and Religion: Assessing the Role of the Faith Factor. Byron R. Johnson and Sung Joon Jang. Toward a Criminology of Religion: Comment on Johnson and Jang. Francis T. Cullen Religion as a Unique Cultural Influence on Crime and Delinquency: Expanding on Johnson and Jang's Agenda. Jeffery T. Ulmer. Prisoner Radicalization and Sacred Terrorism: A Life Course Perspective. Mark S. Hamm. Politicization of Prisoners is an Old and Contemporary Story. Todd Clear. Conversion, Radicalization, and the Life Course: Future Research Questions. Margaret Zahn. Part 4. ECONOMY. Family and Neighborhood Effects on Youth Violence: Does Community Economic Development Increase Adolescent Well-Being? John M. MacDonald, Ricky Bluthenthal, Robert Stokes, and Ben Grunwald. Do Business Improvement Districts Exert a Contextual Effect on Adolescent Well-Being? Gina Penly Hall and Alan J. Lizotte. Geographically Targeted Economic Development Policy and Youth Violence. Robert T. Greenbaum. Fraud Vulnerabilities, the Financial Crisis, and the Business Cycle. Michael Levi. The Effect of Economic Conditions on Fraud Arrest Rates: A Comment on Levi. Philip J. Cook. Evolutionary Ecology, Fraud, and the Global Financial Crisis. Michael L. Benson. Part 5. POLITY. Imprisonment and Crime Control: Building Evidence-Based Policy. Daniel Nagin. Less Imprisonment, Less Crime: A Reply to Nagin. Michael Tonry. Deterrence, Economics, and the Context of Drug Markets. Shawn Bushway and Peter Reuter. The Great Recession and the Great Confinement: The Economic Crisis and the Future of Penal Reform. Marie Gottschalk. Mass Incarceration and the Great Recession: A Comment on Gottschalk. Jonathan Simon.