NCJ Number
91107
Editor(s)
D E J MacNamara
Date Published
1980
Length
250 pages
Annotation
Fifty-three articles published between 1977 and 1979 examine criminal justice issues, focusing on crime and justice in America, the police, the judicial system, juvenile justice, and punishment and corrections.
Abstract
Articles on crime and justice in America discuss topics such as white-collar crime, organized crime, the crime-unemployment cycle, and the world of the career criminal. Articles in the section on police look at police stress and burnout, volunteers who help police, discipline in American policing, and the role of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration in strengthening local law enforcement. The judicial system is examined in reference to advocacy and the criminal trial judge, plea bargaining, suppression of evidence, and insanity vs. the law. Juvenile justice articles discuss reform, the effectiveness of the juvenile courts, and public pressure to institutionalize dangerous juveniles. Among the topics considered in the section on punishment and corrections are capital punishment, the medical model in corrections, co-corrections, and the Oregon parole matrix. Graphs, charts, a topic guide, photographs, an index, glossary, and a 200-item bibliography are provided. The table of contents contains an annotation on each article.