The Juvenile Justice System

In this important book of essays, leading scholars explore the gamut of topics in criminal justice and criminology, examining both historical and contemporary material to illustrate the past and present of each topic covered. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book illustrates the breadth of research, policy, and practice implications in key areas of the field, such as crime theory, law enforcement, jurisprudence, corrections, and criminal justice organization and management. The coverage of concepts, insights, voices, and perspectives is geared toward students with a background in criminal justice or criminology courses to challenge them to synthesize what they have learned, to question standard interpretations, and to begin to create new directions and visions for their future careers as professionals in the field

The Imprisonment Crisis in America: Introduction

This article provides an overview of recent trends in imprisonment rates in America and introduces the articles in this issue of The Review of Policy Research. Incarceration rates have increased by more than 500 percent since the early 1970s and have now reached a rate of almost 700, higher than anywhere else in the world. The impact has been particularly hard on racial minorities, especially women (whose incarceration rate went from around 8 in 1975 to 59 in 2001). The "war on drugs" has been one of the main reasons behind the increases in imprisonment, along with the more general "get tough on crime" movement that began in the late 1970s. The articles in this issue center around how this recent trend in incarceration impacts the entire society, but especially poor communities. Several of the articles focus on race, age and gender as important variables, in addition to the tendency of the parole system to sort of "recycle" released prisoners back into the prison system. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2004..

Justice Policy Journal

A publication of the Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice, the Justice Policy Journal is an âinternational forum for researchers and policymakers to examine current justice issues and promote innovative policy solutions in a Web-based format that maintains the standards of an academic publication.â Every peer-reviewed article is available for free, and by clicking on the Archives link, visitors can access all articles published in the journal since the first volume from August 2001. Topics range from the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders through technology literacy programs, to the psychological aspects of living as an ex-convict, to police entrapment. This trusted resource would be very helpful to students planning a career in criminal justice and for educators to keep abreast of current criminal justice issues and research