1st Edition

Criminal Justice Theory, Volume 26 Explanations and Effects

366 Pages
by Routledge

366 Pages
by Routledge

366 Pages
by Routledge

Criminal Justice Theory: Explanations and Effects undertakes a systematic study of theories of the criminal justice system, which historically have received very little attention from scholars. This is a glaring omission given the risk of mass imprisonment, the increasing presence of police in inner-city communities, and the emergence of new policy initiatives aimed at improving the quality... Read more

Part I. Explanation

1. Foucault and the Power of Criminal Justice: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On

Liam Martin

2. The Culture of Control Revisited

Katherine Beckett

3. Governing Through Crime in Retrospect

Jonathan Simon

4. Group Threat and Social Control: A Review of Theory and Research

Ted Chiricos, Justin T. Pickett, and Peter S. Lehmann

5. Theories of Mass Imprisonment

John F. Pfaff

6. Mass Probation Across the U.S.

Michelle S. Phelps

7. Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice:

Changing Conceptions of Adolescents’ Competence and Culpability

Barry C. Feld

Part II. Effects

8. Coercive Mobility Theory in an Era of Declining Prison Populations

Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost

9. Procedural Justice: In Theory and Practice

Amanda Graham, Travis C. Pratt, and Kyle McLean

10. Broken Windows, Hot Sports, and Focused Deterrence: The State and Impact of the "Big

Three" in Policing Innovations

Cory P. Haberman and Nathan W. Link

11. The Saints and the Roughnecks Revisited: Does Labeling Kids Create Criminals?

Francis T. Cullen, Cecilia Chouhy, and Cheryl Lero Jonson

12. Restorative Justice and Reintegrative Shaming

John Braithwaite

13. Rehabilitation and Redemption: Building a New Corrections

Francis T. Cullen, Heejin Lee, Leah C. Butler, and Angela J. Thielo

Biography

Cecilia Chouhy is an Assistant Professor in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University.

Joshua C. Cochran is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati.

Cheryl Lero Jonson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Xavier University.