Trial & error in criminal justice reform : learning from failure / Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox.
2016
HV9950 .B497 2016 (Mapit)
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Title
Trial & error in criminal justice reform : learning from failure / Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox.
Author
Berman, Greg, author.
Edition
Revised edition.
ISBN
9781442268470 (paperback)
1442268476 (paperback)
9781442268463
1442268468
1442268476 (paperback)
9781442268463
1442268468
Published
Washington, D.C. : Rowman & Littlefield, co-published with the Urban Institute Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
xv, 149 pages ; 23 cm.
Call Number
HV9950 .B497 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.6/0973
Summary
"...Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox tackle a question students and scholars of law, criminology, and political science constantly face: what mistakes have led to the problems that pervade the criminal justice system in the United States? The reluctance of criminal justice policymakers to talk openly about failure, the authors argue, has stunted the public conversation about crime in this country and stifled new ideas. It has also contributed to our inability to address such problems as chronic offending in low-income neighborhoods, an overreliance on incarceration, the misuse of pretrial detention, and the high rates of recidivism among parolees. Berman and Fox offer students and policymakers an escape from this fate by writing about failure in the criminal justice system. Their goal is to encourage a more forthright dialogue about criminal justice, one that acknowledges that many new initiatives fail and that no one knows for certain how to reduce crime. For the authors, this is not a source of pessimism, but a call to action"-- Back cover.
Note
"This revised edition is updated with a new foreword by Cyrus Vance Jr. and an afterword by Greg Berman"--Back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Fox, Aubrey, author.
Series
Urban Institute Press series.
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Table of Contents
The four types of failure
Failure amid success
The complicated legacy of operation ceasefire
The billion-dollar failure : parole and the battle for reform in California
Beyond simple solutions : mastering the politics of tragedy in Connecticut
Defining failure.
Failure amid success
The complicated legacy of operation ceasefire
The billion-dollar failure : parole and the battle for reform in California
Beyond simple solutions : mastering the politics of tragedy in Connecticut
Defining failure.