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Controversial Issues in Crime and Justice

Edited by:

Joseph E. Scott - The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Travis Hirschi - University of Arizona, USA

Volume: 1

Series:
Studies in Crime, Law, and Criminal Justice

Other Titles in:
Criminology & Criminal Justice (General)

May 1988 | 216 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Description
Contents

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.

Joseph E Scott and Travis Hirschi

Introduction

PART ONE: CONTROVERSIAL CRIMES

Gilbert Geis, Henry N Pontell and Paul Jesilow

Medicaid Fraud

Joseph E Scott and Loretta A Schwalm

Pornography and Rape

John Dombrink

Organized Crime

Gangsters and Godfathers

PART TWO: CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN POLICING

James J Fyfe

Police Shooting

Environment and License

Carl B Klockars

Police and the Modern Sting Operation

PART THREE: CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN THE COURTROOM

Rita J Simon and David E Aaronson

The Defense of Insanity

C Ronald Huff and Arye Rattner

Convicted but Innocent

False Positives and the Criminal Justice Process

PART FOUR: CONTROVERSIAL ALTERNATIVES TO PRISON

Richard A Ball and J Robert Lilly

Home Incarceration with Electronic Monitoring

Joan Petersilia

Probation Reform

PART FIVE: CONTROVERSIES IN THE PENAL SYSTEM

Sandra Evans Skovron

Prison Crowding

Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi

Career Criminals and Selective Incapacitation

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