NCJ Number
103913
Editor(s)
P B McGuigan
Date Published
1986
Length
430 pages
Annotation
Scholars, political leaders, and analysis examine a variety of issues related to crime, punishment, imprisonment, and alternatives to imprisonment.
Abstract
Both criminal justice and juvenile justice issues and policies are examined. In addition to general examinations of crime trends and public and legislative response to them, including a move away from earlier rehabilitative ideals, trends in juvenile, violent, and organized crime and efforts to reverse them are discussed. A number of chapters point out the inadequacies of the existing criminal justice policies in controlling crime, preventing recidivism, protecting the public, reintegrating offenders, and providing adequate relief to victims. Within a justice framework that focuses on offender responsibility and accountability, proposed and enacted reforms are discussed as they relate to parens patriae notions of juvenile justice, bail, sentencing, probation and parole, the Miranda warning, collateral estoppel, and forfeiture provisions for dealing with lucrative economic and organized crime. Additional topics of importance in the 1980's are examined, including union and family violence, prison costs and conditions, and restitution and other alternative to incarceration. Chapter notes and references.