Today's Crime and Punishment Issues
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Today's Crime and Punishment Issues

Democrats and Republicans

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Today's Crime and Punishment Issues

Democrats and Republicans

About this book

This balanced book illuminates Republican and Democratic responses and attitudes toward crime, police work, sentencing, incarceration, and rehabilitation in the USA. A broad array of law enforcement and criminal justice issues are examined, including mass incarceration, sentencing disparities, anti-drug efforts, marijuana legalization, death penalty, mandatory minimums, civil asset forfeiture, prison privatization, rape and other crimes in prison settings, women in prison, support for therapeutic/educational programs, sentencing for juvenile offenders, harsher penalties for hate crimes, and voting rights for ex-felons. The focus is on specific and timely topics in criminal justice that are most susceptible to legislative policies. Readers will benefit by developing an appreciation for how politics impacts the criminal justice system, and how the parties have developed laws that impact their lives, dictate acceptable behavior, and legislate appropriate responses for violators. The emphasis of the series is contemporary, but it includes historical perspective to provide a sense of how each party's positions and actions have evolved over time.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Narrative Chronology of Crime and Punishment Regulation in the United States
  10. CHAPTER 1 Bail Reform
  11. CHAPTER 2 Civil Asset Forfeiture
  12. CHAPTER 3 Concealed or Open Firearm Carry
  13. CHAPTER 4 Corporate Crime
  14. CHAPTER 5 Crime Victims’ Rights
  15. CHAPTER 6 Cyberviolence and Online Extremism
  16. CHAPTER 7 Death Penalty
  17. CHAPTER 8 Diversion Programs for Drug Offenders
  18. CHAPTER 9 Environmental Crime
  19. CHAPTER 10 Felon Disenfranchisement
  20. CHAPTER 11 Gang Violence
  21. CHAPTER 12 Gun Control
  22. CHAPTER 13 Hate Crimes
  23. CHAPTER 14 Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  24. CHAPTER 15 International Terrorism
  25. CHAPTER 16 Law Enforcement Discretion
  26. CHAPTER 17 Mandatory Minimum Sentences
  27. CHAPTER 18 Marijuana Legalization
  28. CHAPTER 19 Mental Health Care in the Criminal Justice System
  29. CHAPTER 20 Police Militarization
  30. CHAPTER 21 Prosecuting Juveniles as Adults
  31. CHAPTER 22 Reproductive Rights
  32. CHAPTER 23 Sentencing for Drug Offenses
  33. CHAPTER 24 Technology in Policing
  34. CHAPTER 25 Three-Strikes Policies
  35. Bibliography
  36. About the Editor and Contributors