books by Michael Tonry     books:     Michael Tonry      Thinking about Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) Michael Tonry Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 Exceptional Anyone making criminal justice policy should read "Thinking About Crime." In this book, Michael Tonry closely examines the very different ways nations have responded to changing crime patterns and shifting cultural sensibilities over the past several decades. In so ...             Crime and Justice, Volume 35: Crime and Justice in the Netherlands (Crime and Justice: A Review of Research) University of Chicago Press Journals, 2008 Since 1979, the Crime and Justice series has presented international crime-related research to enrich the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. The eleven essays in Volume 35 provide the first English-language survey of the Dutch criminal justice system, which has been the basis for ...             Crime and Justice, Volume 34 (Crime and Justice: A Review of Research) University of Chicago Press Journals, 2006 Since 1979, the Crime and Justice series has presented international crime-related research to enrich the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. Volume 34 covers criminal justice issues with a careful balance of research, theory, and practice. It offers an interdisciplinary approach ...             Between Prison and Probation: Intermediate Punishments in a Rational Sentencing System Norval Morris, Michael Tonry Oxford University Press, USA, 1991 Across the country prisons are jammed to capacity and, in extreme cases, barges and mobile homes are used to stem the overflow. Probation officers in some cities have caseloads of 200 and more--hardly a manageable number of offenders to track and supervise. And with about one million people in prison and jail, and two and a half million on ...             The Future of Imprisonment Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have gotten worse-a stark contrast to the origins of the prison 200 years ago as a humanitarian reform, a substitute for capital and corporal punishment and banishment. ...             Crime and Justice, Volume 2: An Annual Review of Research (Crime and Justice: A Review of Research) University of Chicago Press Journals, 1980 Founded in 1979, Crime and Justice addresses important developments in the criminal justice system. This distinguished series of commissioned essays encompasses topics both within and outside of the accepted core of research on crime and justice, including legal, psychological, biological, sociological, historical, and ethical considerations. ...             Crime and Justice, Volume 36: Crime, Punishment, and Politics in Comparative Perspective (Crime and Justice: ... University of Chicago Press Journals, 2008 The goal of Crime and Justice , Volume 36 is to advance the understanding of the determinants of penal policies in developed countries. The contributors explore the distinctive national differences in policy in responses to rising crime rates, rapid social change, economic dislocation and increased ethnic diversity. Countries covered include ...             Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries (Studies in Crime & Public Policy) Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 This collection of original essays surveys the evolution of sentencing policies and practices in Western countries over the past twenty-five years. Contributors address plea-bargaining, community service, electronic monitoring, standards of use of incarceration, and legal perspectives on sentencing policy developments, among other topics. ...             Malign Neglect: Race, Crime, and Punishment in America Michael Tonry Oxford University Press, USA, 1996 Great The United States is one of the richest countries in the world. Despite this it does not have a universal system of health care or a level of income support for the poor associated with most developed nations. Its criminal justice system is unusual as it still retains ...             Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration: Comparative and Cross-National Perspectives (Crime and Justice: A Review ... University of Chicago Press Journals, 1997 This volume is the first major cross-national examination of racial and ethnic differences in criminal offending, victimization by crime, and disparities and discrimination in justice systems. These nine essays provide comrehensive up-to-date summaries of research and experience concerning those subjects in Australia, Canada, England and ...             Sentencing Matters (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) Michael Tonry Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 Michael Tonry, an internationally recognized authority on criminology, offers in these pages a comprehensive overview of current research, policy developments, and practical experiences concerning sentencing and sanctions. He examines the effects of increased penalties and considers whether they have made America a safer place. Tonry contends that ...             Crime and Justice, Volume 26: Prisons (Crime and Justice: A Review of Research) University of Chicago Press Journals, 2000 America's prison population has quadrupled in the past two decades, with an enormous impact on families, communities, correctional officers, policy makers, and prisoners themselves. The use of imprisonment as a means of social control has come to the fore in many public debates?whether the issues be deterrence, incapacitation, public spending, ...             Prediction and Classification: Criminal Justice Decision-Making (Crime and Justice: A Review of Research) University of Chicago Press Journals, 1988 Prediction and Classification: Criminal Justice Decision Making , a collection of commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars, is the ninth volume in the Crime and Justice series. Like its predecessors, Prediction and Classification is essential reading for scholars and researchers seeking a unified source of knowledge about ...             Reform and Punishment: The Future of Sentencing (Cambridge Criminal Justice Series) Sue Rex, CROPWOOD ROUND-TABLE CONFERENCE 2001 CA Willan Publishing (UK), 2002 In this book, based on papers originally presented at a recent Cambridge Cropwood conference, a group of leading authorities address the key issues surrounding the future of sentencing in Britain, in the light particularly of the highly influential Halliday Report. These proposals for reform amount to the single most ambitious and comprehensive ...             ROCKEFELLER DRUG LAWS: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol and ... MICHAEL TONRY, FREDERICK K. GRITTNER Macmillan Reference USA, 2001 This second edition of the ?Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior? reflects changes in the attitudes about, use, and knowledge of drugs and alcohol since the first edition published in 1995. These changes include the decrease of crack cocaine use and resurgence of heroin use; changes in laws dealing with drug use (on both the ...          products you might be interested in search for books classification, cross-national, decision-making, imprisonment, intermediate, perspectives      toavi.com    web we recommend Exceptional randomly chosen book: The Secret Life of Bees