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U.S. Criminal Justice Policy: A Contemporary Reader

Author(s): Karim Ismaili, PhD, Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Kennesaw State University
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763741297
  • ISBN-10:0763741299
  • Paperback    370 pages      © 2011
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This current collection of essays on contemporary U.S. criminal justice policy is a timely response to the significant recent growth of policy-oriented research in the fields of criminology and criminal justice. U.S. Criminal Justice Policy: A Contemporary Reader addresses how criminal justice policy issues are framed, identifies participants in the policy process, discusses how policy is made, and considers the constraints and opportunities found in the policy process. Findings are linked to broader institutional, cultural and global criminal justice trends, and are used to determine what recent research reveals about crime policy and democratic governance. The main goal of this book is to encourage readers to engage in a dialogue about criminal justice policy, and to think about the potential for criminal justice reform.

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• Brings a policy focus to a wide range of pressing issues in policing, courts, corrections and juvenile justice.
• Explores topical policy issues including immigration, technology, financial regulation, human trafficking, and public health.
• Provides a unique examination of “policy” (e.g., as an expression of general purpose or desired state of affairs; as specific proposals; as decisions and/or non-decisions of government; as formal authorizations; as programs; as legislation; as outputs; as outcomes; as theory, etc.).

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    Chapter  1  Thinking About Criminal Justice Policy: Process, Players, and Politics
Karim Ismaili, PhD
Part  1  Public Policy and the Criminal Justice System
  Policing
    Chapter  2  The Significance of Race in Contemporary Urban Policing Policy
Delores Jones-Brown, Erica King-Toler
    Chapter  3  Combative and Cooperative Law Enforcement in Post-September 11th America
Ben Brown
    Chapter  4  Policies Promoting School-Police Partnerships
Nicole Bracy, PhD
  Courts
    Chapter  5  Procedural Fairness, Criminal Justice Policy and the Courts
David Rottman, PhD
    Chapter  6  Criminal Justice Policy and Problem-Solving Courts
Susan Krumholz, JD, PhD
  Corrections
    Chapter  7  U.S. Corrections Policy Since the 1970s
Steven Barkan, PhD
    Chapter  8  Reentry as a Process Rather Than a Moment
Natasha Frost, PhD
    Chapter  9  Prison Privatization Turns Twenty-Five
Richard Culp
  Juvenile Justice
    Chapter  10  The U.S. Juvenile Justice Policy Landscape
Janeen Willison, Daniel Mears, Jeffrey Butts, PhD
Part  2  Crime Policy Intersections
    Chapter  11  Exploring the Relationship Between Contemporary Immigration and Crime Control Policies
Dana Greene
    Chapter  12  Technology and Criminal Justice Policy
Phelan Wyrick
    Chapter  13  White Collar Crime and Public Policy: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Beyond
David Friedrichs
    Chapter  14  Criminal Justice Policy and Transnational Crime: The Case of Anti-Human Trafficking Policy
Barbara Ann Stolz
    Chapter  15  When is Crime a Public Health Problem?
Gregory DeLone, Miriam DeLone
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Karim Ismaili, PhD-Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Kennesaw State University

Karim Ismaili is Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Kennesaw State University. Karim holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Western Ontario. His areas of teaching, research and publishing include criminal justice policy and analysis, penology, criminological theory, crime and inequality, and post 9/11 crime and security developments.

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This book is intended as a main text for Policymaking in Criminal Justice courses, which are primarily offered at junior or senior level in criminal justice programs, as well as in many graduate programs. Back to top

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