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Thinking about crime [electronic resource] : sense and sensibility in American penal culture / Michael Tonry.

Localisation

Sécurité publique Canada, Bibliothèque

Ressource

Livres électroniques

Auteurs

Publié

Bibliographie

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description

1 online resource (x, 260 p.) : ill.

Résumé

This manifesto reviews the development of American criminal justice policy, and argues that policymakers have lost their way in a forest of good intentions, political cynicism, and public anxieties, and that prevailing – but short-lived – sensibilities on “getting tough” on crime have overruled common sense. From capital punishment, to three-strikes-you’re-out, to the highest imprisonment rates in the Western world by a factor of five, the United States has created a punishment system that no one would knowingly have built from the ground up. It is often unjust, it is unduly severe, it is wasteful, and it does enormous damage to the lives of Black Americans.

Sujet

Accès en ligne

Contenu

1. Sense and sensibility in American penal culture – 2. Why so many Americans are in prison – 3. Cycles and sensibilities – 4. Moral panics and ‘windows of opportunity’ – 5. Crime trends and the effects of crime control policies – 6. Formerly unthinkable policies – 7. Unthought thoughts – 8. Better understanding, people, and policies.

Collection

Studies in crime and public policy.

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