Continuing the Struggle for Justice : 100 Years of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency
by Barry KrisbergEdition: Reprint
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-04-27
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications, Inc
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Summary
This centennial collection of essays and original research studies captures the varied spectrum of philosophies and concerns of the Board and staff of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) over the past century . The criminological experts represented in this volume are renowned for their study and research into the far reaches of this field of study. As a chronicle of the NCCD's development, editors Barry Krisberg, Susan Marchionna, and Christopher Baird include some of the most groundbreaking material to come out of the workings of this unique American institution.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| The Views From NCCD's Five Presidents | |
| Rational Crime Treatment | |
| A Critique of the Model Penal Code Sentencing Proposals | |
| Milton Rector: Forty Years of Reform (interview) | |
| Doing Violence to the Crime Problem: A response to the Attorney General's Task Force | |
| Hate the Player and Hate the Game: The Politics of the War Against the Young | |
| The Need for a Separate System of Justice for Children | |
| The Juvenile Court in the Service State | |
| The Youth Service Bureau: A Key Delinquency Prevention (Introduction) | |
| Safety and Welfare Review of the California Youth Authority | |
| Creating Effective Juvenile Justice Systems | |
| Alternatives to Mass Incarceration | |
| The Extravagance of Imprisonment | |
| The State of Corrections Today: A Triumph of Pluralistic Ignorance | |
| The "Prisons Pays" Studies: Research or Ideology? | |
| Making Paroling Policy Explicit | |
| Impediments to Penal Reform | |
| Breaking the Cycle of Violence | |
| The Michigan Structured Decision-Making System | |
| The Relative Validity of Actuarial and Consensus-Based Risk Assessment Systems | |
| Improved Decision Making in Child Maltreatment Cases | |
| The Plight of Children Whose Parents Are in Prison | |
| The Link Between Social Justice and Criminal Justice | |
| Racial Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing | |
| Organizing for Community Policing | |
| Violence, U.S.A: Riots and Crime | |
| The Color of Law and the Issue of Color: Race and the Abuse of Police Power | |
| Navigating the Hidden Obstacles to Ex-Offender Reentry | |
| Taking It to the Streets | |
| We Do Not Deserve to Kill | |
| Conclusion: Continuing the Struggle for Justice | |
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