Sage Publications Inc - Criminal Justice Policy - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Criminal Justice Policy provides a thematic overview of criminal justice policy and its relationship to the American criminal justice system. Scholars practitioners and politicians continually debate the value of these policies in their evaluations of the current system. As the nature of this subject involves a host of issues (including politics public sentiment research and practice) the authors expertly highlight these concerns on criminal justice policy and address the implications for the overall system and society at large. This text is organized into three parts: Foundations of criminal justice policy focuses on the role of politics best practices and street level bureaucracy in criminal justice policy. Criminal justice policy in action provides an analysis of fifteen different policy issues in criminal justice such as immigration drugs mental health and capital punishment. Each section begins with a basic summary of the policy accompanied by a brief synopsis of the framing issues. This brief but informative summary draws students attention to essential concepts and ideas provides a roadmap for what they can expect to learn and ensures continuity throughout the text. The text concludes with a discussion about the future directions of criminal justice policy.
Title: Criminal Justice Policy
Brand: Sage Publications Inc
Barcode: 9781452242248
Pages: 448 Pages
Publication Date: 11/7/2013
Category: Crime & Criminology