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A history of modern American criminal justice [electronic resource] / Joseph F. Spillane, David B. Wolcott

Author
Spillane, Joseph F.
Published
Thousand Oaks, [Calif.] : SAGE, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 343 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Wolcott, David B.
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- Venturing Into the Past: Murphy's Monoplane -- Concept #1 Focus on the Process of Change, Not Just Difference -- Concept #2 History Does Not Move in One Direction -- Concept #3 Examine Rhetoric and Reality, Ideas and Practice -- Organization of This Book -- References -- 2.The Challenge of Policing, 1830s-1920s -- Police in the Nineteenth-Century United States -- The Work of Police at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Problems of Corruption and Violence -- Police Reform---External and Internal -- Case Studies in Criminal Justice: James Couzens, Detroit Police Commissioner -- Crime Prevention and Social Improvement -- What's the Evidence?: Annual Reports of Police Departments -- Campaigns for Crime Control -- State and Federal Policing -- Challenges to Local Policing -- The Dynamics of Reform -- References -- 3.Progressivism and the Courts, 1890s-1920s -- Nineteenth-Century Courts -- The Criminal Justice Wedding Cake -- Changes in the Courts -- The Emergence of Juvenile Justice -- Early Juvenile Courts -- Case Studies in Criminal Justice: Julia Lathrop, Child Welfare Advocate -- Progressive Era Court Reform -- Rooting Out Crime -- What's the Evidence?: Court Records -- Retreat from Reform -- The Slow Fade of Juvenile Justice -- Conclusion -- References -- 4.Punishment in the Progressive Era, 1890s-1930s -- The Nineteenth Century -- The Progressive Ambition -- Individualization -- Rehabilitation -- Case Studies in Criminal Justice: Kate Richards O'Hare, Prison Reformer -- Professionalization -- Varieties of Criminal Sanction -- What's the Evidence?: Official Documents -- Institutional Confinement -- The Progressive Legacy -- References -- 5.Dark Days in the South, 1870s-1930s -- The Paradox of Southern Policing -- Reforming Law Enforcement -- Patterns of Punishment -- Case Studies in Criminal Justice: J. C. Powell, Captain of the Florida Convict Camp -- The Beginning of the End in the 1930s -- What's the Evidence?: Newspapers -- References -- 6.Criminal Justice Research and Professionalism, 1920s-1960s -- Moving Beyond Speculation: The Criminal Justice Surveys -- Case Studies in Criminal Justice: Charles L. Chute, Probation Professional -- The Roots of Professionalization -- What's the Evidence?: Popular Culture -- New Research Perspectives: The Field Research Explosion -- Time to Count -- Coda: The President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice -- References -- 7.Liberalism's Twin Revolutions, 1930-1970s -- The Rehabilitative Ideal -- The Medical Model at Work: Three Cases -- The Critique of the Medical Model and the Rehabilitative Ideal -- What's The Evidence?: Program Evaluations -- The Judicial Revolution -- Case Studies in Criminal Justice: Clarence Earl Gideon, Criminal Defendant -- The Rights of People Accused of Crimes -- The Death Penalty -- The Judicial Revolution in Juvenile Justice -- Conclusion -- References -- 8.The Expanding Federal State, 1920s-1990s -- The Growth of the FBI and the War on Crime -- Case Studies in Criminal Justice: Melvin Purvis, FBI Agent -- Alcatraz and the War on Crime -- The FBI, Domestic Security, and Civil Rights -- The FBI and Anticommunism -- The FBI and Civil Rights -- The FBI Campaign Against Radical Subversion -- The Long War on Drugs -- What's The Evidence?: Federal Records -- The Expanded Federal Role in Criminal Justice After 1970 -- Conclusion -- References -- 9.The Politics of Law and Order, 1960s-2000s -- The Scale of Mass Incarceration -- The Origins of Mass Incarceration -- Increased Fear of Crime -- What's the Evidence?: Official Crime Data -- Political Change -- Intellectual Shifts -- Mandatory Sentencing -- The War on Drugs -- Victim's Rights and Women's Rights -- Changes in Criminal Justice -- Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice -- Case Studies in Criminal Justice: Willie Bosket, Criminal Offender -- The Return of the Death Penalty -- Changes in Policing -- Conclusion -- References -- 10.American Criminal Justice in Global Context, 1800s-2000s -- Early Transnational Systems -- Case Studies in Criminal Justice: "Billy Gard," Federal Agent -- Modernization, Colonialism and the Homogenization of Criminal Justice -- Global Criminal Justice in the Cold War Era -- Controlling Illicit Enterprise in a Post-Cold War World -- What's the Evidence?: Estimates of Crime -- References.
Summary
Focusing on the modern aspects of the subject, from 1900 to the present, this book presents a thematic rather than a chronological approach to modern American criminal justice, with chapters organised around themes such as policing, courts, due process, and prison and punishment.
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ISBN
9781452244198 (ebook)
Audience Notes
Specialized.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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