UID:
edocfu_9959739535002883
Format:
1 online resource (254 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4798-0180-1
Content:
A vital collection for reforming criminal justice After five decades of punitive expansion, the entire U.S. criminal justice system— mass incarceration, the War on Drugs, police practices, the treatment of juveniles and the mentally ill, glaring racial disparity, the death penalty and more — faces challenging questions. What exactly is criminal justice? How much of it is a system of law and how much is a collection of situational social practices? What roles do the Constitution and the Supreme Court play? How do race and gender shape outcomes? How does change happen, and what changes or adaptations should be pursued? The New Criminal Justice Thinking addresses the challenges of this historic moment by asking essential theoretical and practical questions about how the criminal system operates. In this thorough and thoughtful volume, scholars from across the disciplines of legal theory, sociology, criminology, Critical Race Theory, and organizational theory offer crucial insights into how the criminal system works in both theory and practice. By engaging both classic issues and new understandings, this volume offers a comprehensive framework for thinking about the modern justice system. For those interested in criminal law and justice, The New Criminal Justice Thinking offers a profound discussion of the complexities of our deeply flawed criminal justice system, complexities that neither legal theory nor social science can answer alone.
Note:
Includes index.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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1. The Criminal Regulatory State --
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2. Disaggregating the Criminal Regulatory State --
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3. Improve, Dynamite, or Dissolve the Criminal Regulatory State? --
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4. The Penal Pyramid --
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5. Linking Criminal Theory and Social Practice --
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6. Canons of Evasion in Constitutional Criminal Law --
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7. Taking the Constitution Seriously? --
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8. Making Prisoner Rights Real --
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9. The Situated Actor and the Production of Punishment --
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10. Beyond Ferguson --
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11. Jumping Bunnies and Legal Rules --
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12. The Second Coming of Dignity --
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13. Dignity Is the New Legitimacy --
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14 “Miserology” --
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About the Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4798-3154-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.18574/9781479801800
