Responses to Crime
Author | : Lord Windlesham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2001 |
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Author | : Lord Windlesham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2001 |
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Author | : David James George Hennessy Baron Windlesham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Criminal justice, Administration of |
ISBN | : 9781383019414 |
Lord Windlesham, a respected commentator on criminal justice, penetrates deep into the political processes which have shaped criminal justice legislation in Britain and the US, and poses fundamental questions about the fairness of law making.
Author | : David James George Hennessy Baron Windlesham |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
This final volume in Lord Windlesham's magnificent collection contains detailed commentaries on the controversy over access to jury trial, the not yet completed reform of criminal legal aid, and the policy imperative of strengthening the enforcement of community penalties. It also includes a comparative study of the development of public defender systems for indigent persons charged with criminal offenses in the United States.
Author | : Stephanos Bibas |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2012-02-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0190236760 |
Two centuries ago, American criminal justice was run primarily by laymen. Jury trials passed moral judgment on crimes, vindicated victims and innocent defendants, and denounced the guilty. But since then, lawyers have gradually taken over the process, silencing victims and defendants and, in many cases, substituting plea bargaining for the voice of the jury. The public sees little of how this assembly-line justice works, and victims and defendants have largely lost their day in court. As a result, victims rarely hear defendants express remorse and apologize, and defendants rarely receive forgiveness. This lawyerized machinery has purchased efficient, speedy processing of many cases at the price of sacrificing softer values, such as reforming defendants and healing wounded victims and relationships. In other words, the U.S. legal system has bought quantity at the price of quality, without recognizing either the trade-off or the great gulf separating lawyers' and laymen's incentives, values, and powers. In The Machinery of Criminal Justice, author Stephanos Bibas surveys the developments over the last two centuries, considers what we have lost in our quest for efficient punishment, and suggests ways to include victims, defendants, and the public once again. Ideas range from requiring convicts to work or serve in the military, to moving power from prosecutors to restorative sentencing juries. Bibas argues that doing so might cost more, but it would better serve criminal procedure's interests in denouncing crime, vindicating victims, reforming wrongdoers, and healing the relationships torn by crime.
Author | : Michele Sviridoff |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9789057026140 |
This book shows the significant impact and success that can be accomplished when courts are designed to meet the needs of the community regardless of traditional proceedings. The presentation of this unique approach marks the way for courts and ancillary justice agencies of all sizes to work together to build community confidence and assure not only quality of life but quality of justice.
Author | : David James George Hennessy Baron Windlesham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Criminal justice, Administration of |
ISBN | : 9780198255833 |
Author | : United States. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : |
This report of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice -- established by President Lyndon Johnson on July 23, 1965 -- addresses the causes of crime and delinquency and recommends how to prevent crime and delinquency and improve law enforcement and the administration of criminal justice. In developing its findings and recommendations, the Commission held three national conferences, conducted five national surveys, held hundreds of meetings, and interviewed tens of thousands of individuals. Separate chapters of this report discuss crime in America, juvenile delinquency, the police, the courts, corrections, organized crime, narcotics and drug abuse, drunkenness offenses, gun control, science and technology, and research as an instrument for reform. Significant data were generated by the Commission's National Survey of Criminal Victims, the first of its kind conducted on such a scope. The survey found that not only do Americans experience far more crime than they report to the police, but they talk about crime and the reports of crime engender such fear among citizens that the basic quality of life of many Americans has eroded. The core conclusion of the Commission, however, is that a significant reduction in crime can be achieved if the Commission's recommendations (some 200) are implemented. The recommendations call for a cooperative attack on crime by the Federal Government, the States, the counties, the cities, civic organizations, religious institutions, business groups, and individual citizens. They propose basic changes in the operations of police, schools, prosecutors, employment agencies, defenders, social workers, prisons, housing authorities, and probation and parole officers.
Author | : Richard Curtis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2014-01-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134417500 |
This book shows the significant impact and success that can be accomplished when courts are designed to meet the needs of the community regardless of traditional proceedings. The presentation of this unique approach marks the way for courts and ancillary justice agencies of all sizes to work together to build community confidence and assure not only quality of life but quality of justice.
Author | : Gideon Yaffe |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 019880332X |
Why be lenient towards children who commit crimes? Reflection on the grounds for such leniency is the entry point into the development, in this book, of a theory of the nature of criminal responsibility and desert of punishment for crime. Gideon Yaffe argues that child criminals are owed lesser punishments than adults thanks not to their psychological, behavioural, or neural immaturity but, instead, because they are denied the vote. This conclusion is reached through accounts of the nature of criminal culpability, desert for wrongdoing, strength of legal reasons, and what it is to have a say over the law. The centrepiece of this discussion is the theory of criminal culpability. To be criminally culpable is for one's criminal act to manifest a failure to grant sufficient weight to the legal reasons to refrain. The stronger the legal reasons, then, the greater the criminal culpability. Those who lack a say over the law, it is argued, have weaker legal reasons to refrain from crime than those who have a say. They are therefore reduced in criminal culpability and deserve lesser punishment for their crimes. Children are owed leniency, then, because of the political meaning of age rather than because of its psychological meaning. This position has implications for criminal justice policy, with respect to, among other things, the interrogation of children suspected of crimes and the enfranchisement of adult felons.
Author | : Timothy Lynch |
Publisher | : Cato Institute |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2009-02-24 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1935308254 |
America’s criminal codes are so voluminous that they now bewilder not only the average citizen but also the average lawyer. Our courthouses are so clogged that there is no longer adequate time for trials. And our penitentiaries are overflowing with prisoners. In fact, America now has the highest per capita prison population in the world. This situation has many people wondering whether the American criminal justice system has become dysfunctional. A generation ago Harvard Law Professor Henry Hart Jr. published his classic article, “The Aims of the Criminal Law,” which set forth certain fundamental principles concerning criminal justice. In this book, leading scholars, lawyers, and judges critically examine Hart’s ideas, current legal trends, and whether the “first principles” of American criminal law are falling by the wayside. Policymakers, academics, and citizens alike will enjoy this lively discussion on the nature of crime and punishment, and how the choices we make in formulating criminal laws can impact liberty, security, and justice.