U.S. Criminal Justice Policy: A Contemporary Reader / Edition 2

by Karim Ismaili

Overview

This updated Second Edition surveys the incredibly dynamic field of criminal justice policy in the Unit ed States. The collection addresses how criminal policy issues are framed, identifies participants in the policy process, discusses how policy is made, and considers the constraints and opportunities facing policy-makers. Findings are linked to broader institutional, cultural, and global criminal justice trends, and are used to determine what current research reveals about crime policy and democratic governance. U.S. Criminal Justice Policy: A Contemporary Reader, Second Edition encourages readers to engage in a dialogue about criminal justice policy, as well as think about the potential for criminal justice reform.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781284020250
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	10/30/2015
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Karim Ismaili is Vice Provost and Professor of Criminology at Bridgewater State University. He is a Senior Fellow of the Vincentian Center for Social Justice at St. John's University, an affiliate of the Center for Excellence in Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS), and a member of the Ryerson University Law Research Center. Born and raised in London, England, Karim emigrated with his family to Vancouver, Canada as a teenager. After completing his B.A. in criminology at Simon Fraser University, he returned to England and completed an M.Phil. in criminology at the University of Cambridge. He then went on to study political science at the University of Western Ontario. His doctoral dissertation explored the criminal justice policy-making process and drew on three years of participant observational research conducted in the Ministry of the Solicitor General Canada and Department of Justice Canada. Prior to his appointment as Vice Provost, Karim served as Dean of the College of Graduate Studies at Bridgewater State (2013-2014). He has held professorships at Kennesaw State University in Metropolitan Atlanta, where he also served as Associate Dean in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (2010-2013); at Ryerson University in Toronto (2006-2010), where he was the Inaugural Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology; at St. John’s University in New York City (1997-2006), and at Radford University in Virginia (1996-1997). He has also served as a visiting professor of Behavioral Science at the New York Police Academy. Karim's areas of teaching, research and publishing include criminal justice policy and analysis, penology, criminological theory, crime and inequality, and post 9/11 crime and security developments. He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards and has been interviewed by news outlets that include WNYC (New York Public Radio), WBEZ (Chicago Public Radio), TVOntario, and The New York Times.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Thinking About Criminal Justice Policy: Process, Players, and Politics
Part 1 Public Policy and the Criminal Justice System
Section POLICING
Chapter 2 The Significance of Race in Contemporary Urban Policing Policy
Chapter 3 Combative and Cooperative Law Enforcement in Post-September 11th America
Chapter 4 Policies Promoting School-Police Part nerships
Section COURTS
Chapter 5 Procedural Fairness, Criminal Justice Policy, and the Courts
Chapter 6 Criminal Justice Policy and Problem-Solving Courts
Section CORRECTIONS
Chapter 7 U.S. Corrections Policy Since the 1970s
Chapter 8 Reentry as a Process Rather Than a Moment
Chapter 9 The U.S. Juvenile Justice Policy Landscape
Part 2 Crime Policy Intersections
Chapter 10 Homeland Security and Criminal Justice Following 9/11
Chapter 11 Through The Looking Glass: Exploring the Relationship Between Contemporary Immigration and Crime Control Policies
Chapter 12 Technology and Criminal Justice Policy
Chapter 13 White Collar Crime and Public Policy: Crimes of High Finance and Environmental Crimes
Chapter 14 Criminal Justice Policy and Transnational Crime: The Case of Anti-Human Trafficking Policy
Chapter 15 When is Crime a Public Health Problem?