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The
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Law Enforcement Policy Books
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 Race
to Incarcerate
From Booknews
Mauer, assistant
director of the Washington, DC-based Sentencing Project and expert in
criminal justice reform, analyzes the political roots of the "tough
on crime" movement and presents evidence pointing to why it has
failed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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 Illusion
of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing
From
the Publisher
This is the first book
to challenge the "broken-windows" theory of crime, which argues
that permitting minor misdemeanors, such as loitering and vagrancy, to go
unpunished only encourages more serious crime. The theory has
revolutionized policing in the United States and abroad, with its emphasis
on policies that crack down on disorderly conduct and aggressively enforce
misdemeanor laws. The problem, argues Bernard Harcourt, is that although
the broken-windows theory has been around for nearly thirty years, it has
never been empirically verified. Indeed, existing data suggest that it is
false. Conceptually, it rests on unexamined categories of "law
abiders" and "disorderly people" and of "order"
and "disorder," which have no intrinsic reality, independent of
the techniques of punishment that we implement in our society. How did the
new order-maintenance approach to criminal justice—a theory without
solid empirical support, a theory that is conceptually flawed and results
in aggressive detentions of tens of thousands of our fellow
citizens—come to be one of the leading criminal justice theories
embraced by progressive reformers, policymakers, and academics throughout
the world? This book explores the reasons why. It also presents a new,
more thoughtful vision of criminal justice.
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