Measuring Offender Risk: A Criminal Justice Sourcebook

by Dean John Champion

Overview

Champion, an expert on criminal behavior, paroling, and sentencing, assesses how the justice system makes critical decisions about offender risks and needs. This sourcebook evaluates the instruments and methods used by local, state, and federal authorities at different stages and in different environments to handle both adult and juvenile offenders. Criminologists, penologists, and law enforcement personnel will see ways to optimize institutional classifications and parole board decisions, and to deal appropriately with various types of offenders. Appendices and a comprehensive bibliography, along with a complete index, enhance the usefulness of this reference tool.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313285936
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/26/1993
Series:	Literature; 38
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d)
Lexile:	1430L (what's this?)

About the Author

DEAN J. CHAMPION is Professor and Chair at the Department of Criminal Justice, Minot State University, North Dakota. His publications include sixteen texts, an edited work, and numerous articles. Among the books are Corrections in the United States: A Contemporary Perspective (1989), The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines (Praeger, 1989), and Felony Probation (Praeger, 1988). His articles have appeared in several jourbanals including Jourbanal of Criminal Justice, Crime and Justice, Jourbanal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, and American Jourbanal of Criminal Justice. His professional interests revolve around judicial and prosecutorial decision making, juvenile rights, and jailhouse lawyers and correctional law.

Table of Contents

Preface
Risk Assessment and Dangerousness: An Historical Analysis
The Criminal Justice System and Predictions of Risk: Variations in Instrumentation
Selective Incapacitation and Recidivism: An Examination of the Issues
Classification in Correctional Settings: Risk as a Determinant of Level-of-Custody Decision Making
Parole and Other Options: Factors Influencing Early-Release Decisions
Risk Assessment in Retrospect: Current Trends
Appendices: Forms: Adult
Forms and Figure: Juvenile
Cases Cited
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index