Sense and nonsense about crime and drugs : a policy guide

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Main Author: Walker, Samuel, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Belmont, CA : West/Wadsworth Pub. Co., ©1998.
Edition:4th ed.
Series:Contemporary issues in crime and justice series
Subjects:
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Crime prevention > United States.
Drug abuse and crime > United States.
Drug control > United States.
Crime prevention.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Drug abuse and crime.
Drug control.
United States.

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300 |a xxii, 288 pages :  |b illustrations ;  |c 24 cm. 
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490 1 |a The Wadsworth contemporary issues in crime and justice series 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 0 |g I.  |t Thinking Clearly About Crime --  |g 1.  |t Crime and Policy: A Complex Problem --  |t The Miracle of Falling Crime Rates --  |t Is It for Real? --  |t The Great American Paternity Fight --  |t Understanding the Crime Problem --  |t America's Two Crime Problems --  |t Waging War on Crime --  |t Race and the War on Crime --  |t The War on Crime and the Criminal Justice System --  |t The Futility of Waging "War" on Crime --  |t Crime Policy: A Plague of Nonsense --  |t The Ground Rules --  |t Thinking Clearly about Crime Prevention --  |t Reducing Crime: The New Community Focus --  |t The Larger Context: Recent Social Trends --  |t Guilty: Liberals and Conservatives --  |t Crime Control Theology --  |t Conservative Theology --  |t Liberal Theology --  |t A Word about Rules --  |t Ideological Confusion: Switching Sides --  |g 2.  |t Models of Criminal Justice --  |t The Crime Commission's Model --  |t The Criminal Justice Wedding Cake --  |t Celebrated Cases: The Top Layer --  |t Serious Felonies: The Second and Third Layer --  |t Prior Relationship: A Policy Dilemma --  |t Hard or Soft on Crime? Unraveling the Paradox --  |t The Lower Depths: The Fourth Layer --  |g 3.  |t The Going Rate --  |t Evaluating the System --  |t The Funnel --  |t Rejections and Dismissals: Loophole? --  |t From Indictment to Punishment --  |t An International Perspective on the Going Rate --  |t The Courtroom Work Group --  |t The Limits of Reform --  |t The Dynamics of Reform --  |t Criminal Justice Thermodynamics --  |t How Many Mistakes? --  |g 4.  |t The Career Criminal --  |t Wolfgang's Birth Cohort --  |t Other Cohort Studies --  |t From Research to Policy --  |t The Prediction Problem --  |t The Rand Selective Incapacitation Study --  |t How Much Crime Do They Do? --  |g II.  |t "Get Tough": The Conservative Attack on Crime --  |g 5.  |t Unleash the Cops! --  |t More Cops --  |t The Police and Crime --  |t The Lessons of Kansas City --  |t Focused Police Officer Activities --  |t Sorting Out the Issues --  |t Faster Response Time --  |t More Detectives --  |t Myths and Realities of Detective Work --  |t Targeting Career Criminals --  |t Eliminate the "Technicalities" --  |t Repeal the Exclusionary Rule --  |t Abolish Miranda --  |g 6.  |t Deter the Criminals --  |t Deterrence Theory --  |t Assumptions Underlying Deterrence --  |t From Theory to Practice: Four Problems --  |t The Risk of Crime: Some Preliminary Evidence --  |t The Death Penalty --  |t Sorting Out the Issues --  |t Executions and Crimes: Sellin's Studies --  |t Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullets --  |t Delays and Deterrence --  |t Brutilization Theory? --  |t Deterring the Drunk Driver --  |t The "Killer Drunk" and Other Myths --  |t Deterrence and Drunk Driving --  |t Drunk Drivers in Court --  |t Crackdown Costs --  |t Some Good News: Alternative Strategies for Dealing with Drunk Drivers --  |t Deterring Burglars and Robbers --  |t The Rand Inmate Survey --  |t Deterring Domestic Violence --  |g 7.  |t Lock 'Em Up --  |t Getting Criminals off the Street --  |t Preventive Detention --  |t A Short History of Bail Reform --  |t Preventive Detention in Operation: Washington, D.C. --  |t The 1984 Federal Bail Reform Act --  |t Crime on Bail: Myths and Reality --  |t The Prediction Problem Revisited --  |t Speedy Trial: A Better Way --  |t Incapacitation --  |t Selective Incapacitation: The Rand Formula --  |t Gross Incapacitation: Zedlewski's New Math --  |t Incapacitation: A Sober Estimate --  |t Mandatory Sentencing --  |t Two Case Studies --  |t Mandatory Sentencing and Crime --  |t Three Strikes -- We Are All Out --  |t Implementation --  |t Impact --  |t Summary -- Striking Out --  |g 8.  |t Close the Loopholes --  |t Prosecute the Career Criminal --  |t Getting Tough in San Diego --  |t Other Prosecution Programs --  |t Abolish the Insanity Defense --  |t Sorting Out the Issues --  |t The Reality of the Insanity Defense --  |t Aftermath of Acquittal --  |t Danger to the Community --  |t The Impact of Abolition --  |t Abolish Plea Bargaining --  |t Alaska Bans Plea Bargaining --  |t Other Experiments --  |t In Search of Plea Bargains --  |t Restrict Appeals --  |t Limiting Appeals --  |t Appeals in Practice --  |g III.  |t The Middle Ground: Guns and Victims --  |g 9.  |t Protect Crime Victims --  |t The Victims' Rights Movement --  |t The Costs of Crime --  |t New Laws and Programs --  |t Critics of the Movement --  |t Sorting Out the Issues --  |t Criteria for Evaluation --  |t Victim Assistance Programs --  |t Police-Victim Recontact --  |t Victim Compensation --  |t Expanding the Victim's Voice --  |t The Impact of Victim's Voice Laws --  |t Speedy Trial --  |t Getting Tough on Crime --  |t Mandatory Arrest for Domestic Violence --  |g 10.  |t Control Gun Crimes --  |t The Problem with Guns -- and Gun Policy --  |t Gun Ownership and Gun-Related Violence --  |t Types of Guns --  |t Gun Ownership --  |t Handgun-Related Violence --  |t Handguns as Self-Protection --  |t Gun-Related Laws --  |t The Policy Alternatives --  |t Public Attitudes toward Gun Control --  |t Ban Handguns --  |t Ban Possession --  |t The Limits of "Banning" Handguns --  |t Ban Bullets --  |t Ban the Manufacture and Importation of Handguns --  |t Buy Back Handguns --  |t Buy Saturday Night Specials --  |t Ban Assault Weapons --  |t Regulate the Sale and Possession of Handguns --  |t Restrict the Use of Handguns --  |t Restrict the Carrying of Handguns --  |t Boston: Operation Cease Fire --  |t Guns at Airports and Schools --  |t Get Guns Off the Street: The Kansas City Experiment --  |t More Guns? --  |t Get Tough on Weapons Offenses --  |t Getting Tough in Detroit --  |g IV.  |t Reform: the Liberal Prescription --  |g 11.  |t Treat 'Em! --  |t Rehabilitating Criminals --  |t The Philosophy of Rehabilitation --  |t The Politics of Rehabilitation: The Willie Horton Furlough --  |t The "Nothing Works" Controversy --  |t Was Martinson Right? --  |t The Prediction Problem Revisited --  |t Traditional Rehabilitation Programs --  |t Diversion --  |t Probation --  |t Parole --  |t The New Intermediate Punishments --  |t Boot Camps --  |t Intensive Probation Supervision --  |t Home Confinement and Electronic Monitoring --  |t Summary: Lessons of the Intermediate Punishment Movement --  |t Restorative Justice --  |t Restorative Justice in Operation --  |t Conclusion: Is Rehab Running on Empty? --  |g 12.  |t Reform the Law and the System --  |t Eliminate Injustice --  |t Does Justice Matter? --  |t Decriminalization --  |t The Rationale for Decriminalization --  |t The Terms of the Debate --  |t The Impact of Decriminalization --  |g V.  |t The Drug Problem --  |g 13.  |t Sense and Nonsense about Drugs --  |t The Drug Problem --  |t Hysteria over Drugs --  |t Myths and Realities about Drugs and Crime --  |t The Drug Policy Choices --  |t The War on Drugs: Policy and Consequences --  |t The Impact of the War on Drugs --  |t Police Crackdowns --  |t Interdiction and Eradication --  |t Tougher Sentencing --  |t Limits of the Criminal Law: The Lessons of History --  |t The Lessons of History --  |t When Social Control Does Work --  |t Demand Reduction: Drug Education --  |t "Just Say No" --  |t DARE: Success or Failure? --  |t But Some Education Programs Do Work --  |t Drug Treatment --  |t Varieties of Treatment --  |t Does Treatment Work? --  |t But Something Positive Has Happened --  |t Legalize Drugs? --  |t Varieties of Legalization --  |t The Impact of Legalization --  |t A Specific Proposal --  |g VI.  |t Conclusions --  |g 14.  |t In the end: What Works? --  |t A Great American Paternity Fight --  |t A Quick Review of What We Have Learned --  |t Crime Prevention: The Maryland Report. 
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