NCJ Number
230360
Editor(s)
John Klofas,
Natalie Kroovand Hipple,
Edmund McGarrell
Date Published
2010
Length
192 pages
Annotation
This book contains chapters that discuss the changing world of criminal justice, features of the "new criminal justice" in practice, the new knowledge needed for new practice in criminal justice, and implications of the current status of criminal justice for its future.
Abstract
The three chapters of the first section of the book, "The Changing World of Criminal Justice," set the stage for the book's subsequent sections and chapters. One chapter describes the "new criminal justice" and how it is different from the systems model of criminal justice in which separate agencies perform distinctive functions in a chain-like progression of case processing in which criminal justice agencies have little collaboration. The "new criminal justice" is characterized by collaborative arrangements of powerful coalitions at the local level driven by locally relevant research and organized to reduce violent crime. Another chapter portrays Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a collaborative effort to reduce violent crime at the local level, as the embodiment of the core elements of the "new criminal justice." Five chapters constitute the book's section on "The New Criminal Justice in Practice." These chapters describe various projects that exemplify the "new criminal justice" and their associated evaluation findings. Projects discussed include the Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI) model, Project Exile's gun-crime reduction, characteristics of crime control policies in cities that have comparatively less violent crime, and the Rockford Drug Market Initiative (Illinois). The five chapters of the book's third section, "New Knowledge for New Practice in Criminal Justice," discuss the role of "action research" and researcher-practitioner collaboration in projects reflective of the "new criminal justice." The concluding two chapters summarize PSN lessons and the implications of the "new criminal justice" for criminal justice education. 12 figures, 18 tables, chapter notes, 237 references, and a subject index