Controversial Issues in Crime and Justice / Edition 1

by Joseph E. Scott, Travis W. Hirschi

Overview

Controversial Issues in Crime and Justice, the first volume in the Studies in Crime, Law and Justice series, addresses many of the current controversial issues in criminology. The contributors look at various stages of the criminal justice system, beginning with types of crime, then focusing on the police, the courts and finally imprisonment and its alternatives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803929135
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/01/1988
Series:	Studies in Crime, Law, and Criminal Justice , #1
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - Joseph E Scott and Travis Hirschi
PART ONE: CONTROVERSIAL CRIMES
Medicaid Fraud - Gilbert Geis, Henry N Pontell and Paul Jesilow
Pornography and Rape - Joseph E Scott and Loretta A Schwalm
Organized Crime - John Dombrink
Gangsters and Godfathers
PART TWO: CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN POLICING
Police Shooting - James J Fyfe
Environment and License
Police and the Modern Sting Operation - Carl B Klockars
PART THREE: CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN THE COURTROOM
The Defense of Insanity - Rita J Simon and David E Aaronson
Convicted but Innocent - C Ronald Huff and Arye Rattner
False Positives and the Criminal Justice Process
PART FOUR: CONTROVERSIAL ALTERNATIVES TO PRISON
Home Incarceration with Electronic Monitoring - Richard A Ball and J Robert Lilly
Probation Reform - Joan Petersilia
PART FIVE: CONTROVERSIES IN THE PENAL SYSTEM
Prison Crowding - Sandra Evans Skovron
Career Criminals and Selective Incapacitation - Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi