The Criminal Justice System
Alternative Measures
- Publisher
- Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1998
- Category
- Criminology, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551301334
- Publish Date
- Oct 1998
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
North America's obsession with the control of criminals has led to the expenditure of more than one hundred billion dollars per year on police, courts, and prisons. This criminal control industry has grown at the expense of strategies aimed at reducing crime. In The Criminal Justice System: Alternative Measures, nine outstanding critics of the crime control industry present alternatives to the existing criminal justice system. The main theme of the collection is that crime is a community problem, and that solutions to the occurrence of crime lie within the community.
The collection is intended for sociologists, criminologists, social workers, and others who study the justice system or work within it.
About the author
James F. Hodgson is a former police officer who is now Associate Professor and Chair of the Graduate Department of Sociology, Longwood Colllege, Virginia. He is the author of Games Pimps Play: A Qualitative Analysis of Street Prostitution.
