Items

Details

Preface
Correlation guide
Introduction
Unit 1: Definitions And Explanations Of Crime
Issue 1: Is crime beneficial to society?
Yes: Rules of sociological method / Emile Durkheim
No: Defining deviancy down / Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Issue 2: Is criminal behavior determined biologically?
Yes: Biological basis of crime / Adrian Raine
No: Rich get richer and the poor get prison: ideology, class, and criminal justice / Jeffrey H Reiman
Issue 3: Is a person's body type clearly linked to criminal behavior?
Yes: Physiques, somatotypes and crime / Sean Maddan, Jeffrey T Walker, and J Mitchell Miller
No: Does body type really have an effect on criminal behavior? / Chris L Gibson and Kevin M Beaver
Unit 2: Justice Issues And Contemporary Public Policy
Issue 4: Should George W Bush be prosecuted for war crimes?
Yes: Opening up one's eyes, the prosecution of George W Bush for murder / Vincent Bugliosi
No: Politics of vengeance / John Barry
Issue 5: Does the United States have a right to torture suspected terrorists?
Yes: Lesser of two evils? An argument for judicially sanctioned torture in a post-9/11 world / Andrew A Moher
No: Leading by example? US interrogation of prisoners in the war on terror / Elisa Massimino
Issue 6: Is racial profiling an acceptable law enforcement strategy?
Yes: Racial profiling: is there and empirical basis? / Jared Taylor and Glayde Whitney
No: Misleading evidence and the misguided attempt to generate racial profiles of criminals; correcting fallacies and calculations concerning race and crime in Taylor and Whitney's analysis of racial profiling / Michael J Lynch
Issue 7: Should serious sex offenders be castrated?
Yes: Case for castration / Lawrence Wright
No: Castration as an alternative to incarceration: an impotent approach to the punishment of sex offenders / Kari A Vanderzyl
Issue 8: Should juvenile courts be abolished?
Yes: Bad kids: race and the transformation of the juvenile court / Barry C Feld
No: Florida experiment: an analysis of the impact of granting prosecutors discretion to try juveniles as adults / Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg
Issue 9: Is exposure to pornography related to increased rates of rape?
Yes: Dangerous relationships: pornography, misogyny, and rape / Diana E H Russell
No: Porn up, rape down / Anthony D'Amato


Unit 3: Prison Programs And Alternatives
Issue 10: Is it ethical to segregate HIV-positive inmates?
Yes: Is the segregation of HIV-positive inmates ethical? Yes / Penny A Robinette
No: Is the segregation of HIV-positive inmates ethical? No / Billy Long
Issue 11: Are supermax (control unit) prisons an appropriate way to punish hardened criminals?
Yes: To the Max / Gregory L Hershberger
No: Supermax prisons: Panacea or desperation? / Rodney J Henningsen, W Wesley Johnson, and Terry Wells
Issue 12: Should juveniles who commit murder be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole?
Yes: Parents fight to keep juvenile killers in prison / Liza Matia
No: When I die they'll send me home / Human Rights Watch
Issue 13: Should private for-profit corporations be allowed to run US prisons?
Yes: Low cost, high quality, good fit: why not privatization? / Wayne H Calabrese
No: Problem of prison privatization: the US experience / Jeff Sinden
Unit 4: Criminal Justice Research, Evaluation, And Policy Analysis
Issue 14: Is capital punishment a bad public policy?
Yes: Miscarriage of justice: why the death penalty doesn't work / David Von Drehle
No: Ultimate punishment: a defense / Ernest van den Haag
Issue 15: Will strict gun control laws reduce the number of homicides in the United States?
Yes: Firearms, violence, and the potential impact of firearms control / Franklin E Zimring
No: Production of criminal violence in America: is strict gun control the solution? / Lance K Stell
Issue 16: Should the police enforce zero-tolerance laws?
Yes: Declining crime rates: insiders' views of the New York City story / George L Kelling and William J Bratton
No: Zero tolerance: a case study of police policies and practices in New York / Judith A Greene
Unit 5: Future Trends In Criminology And Criminal Justice
Issue 17: Should marijuana be legalized?
Yes: End to marijuana prohibition: the drive to legalize picks up / Ethan A Nadelmann
No: No surrender / John P Walters
Issue 18: Do three strikes sentencing laws and other get tough approaches really work?
Yes: Mugged by reality / Eugene H Methvin
No: Three strikes as a public policy / David Schichor
Issue 19: Should juries be able to disregard the law and free "guilty" persons in racially charged cases?
Yes: Racially based jury nullification: black power in the criminal justice system / Paul Butler
No: After the cheers / Randall Kennedy
Contributors.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export