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Smart on Crime: The Struggle to Build a Better American Penal System
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- Book Title
- Smart on Crime: The Struggle to Build a Better Ame
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- 9781498703130
- Publication Year
- 2015
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- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Smart on Crime : the Struggle to Build a Better American Penal System
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
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The most punitive era in American history reached its apex in the 1990s, but the trend has reversed in recent years. Smart on Crime: The Struggle to Build a Better American Penal System examines the factors causing this dramatic turnaround. It relates and echoes the increasing need and desire on the part of actors in the American government system to construct a penal system that is more rational and humane. Author Garrick L. Percival points out that the prison boom did not naturally emerge as a governmental response to increasing crime rates. Instead, political forces actively built and shaped the growth of a more aggressive and populated penal system. He is optimistic that the shifting political forces surrounding crime and punishment can now reform the system, explaining how current political actors can craft more constructive and just policies and programs. The book shows how rationality and humanitarianism lead to a penal system that imprisons fewer people, does less harm to the lives of individual offenders and those close to them, and is less expensive to maintain. The book presents empirical data to concretely demonstrate what is working and what is not in today's penal system. It closely examines policies and practices in Texas, Ohio, and California as comparative illustrations on what progress has been made or needs to be made in penal systems across the United States. The book includes a comprehensive discussion of highlighted issues, and relates more than two dozen interviews with pivotal political actors who clarify why there is a major shift underway in the American penal system. Their insights reveal paths that can be taken to improve the current penal system.
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CRC Press LLC
ISBN-10
1498703135
ISBN-13
9781498703130
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Publication Name
Smart on Crime : the Struggle to Build a Better American Penal System
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
263 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
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Hv9466
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"Percival (San José State Univ.) takes readers on a journey informed by a political science approach to understand how the US has gone from the wars on crime and drugs that led to mass incarceration to what is now termed a 'smart on crime' approach aimed at evidence-based policies and decarceration. Percival rejects as too simplistic the idea that economics has driven this new approach to criminal justice in favor of a more nuanced explanation that examines the political coalitions that have emerged because of a convergence of a number of driving factors. He largely credits conservative politicians and their allies with guiding the 'smart on crime' movement. His method is to conduct a policy history of past 'tough on crime' policies, a current legislative history of the Second Chance Act and the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, and an assessment of policies in three states--Ohio, Texas, and California--to support his contention that conservatives have played a pivotal role in advancing policies that focus on evidence-based rehabilitation policies and fiscal restraint. Summing up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections." --S. E. Blankenship, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio, USA, for CHOICE, March 2016 g policies that focus on evidence-based rehabilitation policies and fiscal restraint. Summing up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections." --S. E. Blankenship, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio, USA, for CHOICE, March 2016, "Percival (San Jos State Univ.) takes readers on a journey informed by a political science approach to understand how the US has gone from the wars on crime and drugs that led to mass incarceration to what is now termed a 'smart on crime' approach aimed at evidence-based policies and decarceration. Percival rejects as too simplistic the idea that economics has driven this new approach to criminal justice in favor of a more nuanced explanation that examines the political coalitions that have emerged because of a convergence of a number of driving factors. He largely credits conservative politicians and their allies with guiding the 'smart on crime' movement. His method is to conduct a policy history of past 'tough on crime' policies, a current legislative history of the Second Chance Act and the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, and an assessment of policies in three states--Ohio, Texas, and California--to support his contention that conservatives have played a pivotal role in advancing policies that focus on evidence-based rehabilitation policies and fiscal restraint. Summing up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections." --S. E. Blankenship, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio, USA, for CHOICE, March 2016, "Percival (San José State Univ.) takes readers on a journey informed by a political science approach to understand how the US has gone from the wars on crime and drugs that led to mass incarceration to what is now termed a 'smart on crime' approach aimed at evidence-based policies and decarceration. Percival rejects as too simplistic the idea that economics has driven this new approach to criminal justice in favor of a more nuanced explanation that examines the political coalitions that have emerged because of a convergence of a number of driving factors. He largely credits conservative politicians and their allies with guiding the 'smart on crime' movement. His method is to conduct a policy history of past 'tough on crime' policies, a current legislative history of the Second Chance Act and the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, and an assessment of policies in three states--Ohio, Texas, and California--to support his contention that conservatives have played a pivotal role in advancing policies that focus on evidence-based rehabilitation policies and fiscal restraint. Summing up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections." --S. E. Blankenship, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio, USA, for CHOICE, March 2016
Table of Content
Preface Acknowledgments Smart on Crime Politics Introduction Crime Politics in the American Political System Coalition Politics and Reform in the Criminal Justice Subsystem Rise of the Smart on Crime Coalition Explaining the Emergence of the Smart on Crime Coalition Policy Learning Bringing Policy Back into the Picture When Is Reform Really Reform? Collapse of the Rehabilitative Model and Rise of the Tough on Crime Coalition Calm before the Storm The Storm: The Rehabilitative Model Gets Blown Away Politicalization of Rehabilitation Research Sagging Support for Rehabilitation on the Left Building an Institutional Legacy Tough on Crime Coalition Crisis and Opportunity in the American Penal System To the Victors Go the Spoils Problems on the Ground: Consequences of the Tough on Crime Regime The Penal System and Inequality Diminishing Marginal Returns of Mass Incarceration Conditions Facilitating the Search for Alternatives and Policy Learning Economic Crisis The Contemporary Prison System Is a Different Beast Examining Changes in Public Attitudes on Crime and Punishment Fear of Crime Saliency of Crime Prisoner Reentry and the Politics of the Second Chance Act Pressure from the Bottom Up Conceptualizing Prisoner Reentry Ohio Plan Developments in Corrections Policy Research Conservatives Begin the Push for Prisoner Reentry Introduction of the SCA Prison Fellowship Ministries Fight to Protect Inmates' Religious Freedom Framing the Meaning of the SCA Correctional Associations Second Chance Advocacy in the Senate Political Progress in the House Roadblocks in the Senate Closing the Deal Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 Policy Context Challenging the Unique Dangers of Crack Cocaine Proposals for Change Legal Challenges to the Federal Sentencing Process New Proposals for Crack Sentencing Reform Mobilizing Support for Crack Sentencing Reform Texas Introduction to the Problem Environment Bringing an Engineer's Perspective to the Texas Penal System Emergence of New Organized Groups Justice Reinvestment Broad-Based Smart on Crime Coalition Texas Penal System and the Shifting Dimensions of Political Debate Appendix Ohio Diffusion of Smart on Crime Policy Ideas Ohio Seeks Technical Assistance Policy Learning among Conservatives in Ohio California Shifting Political Environment Return of the Structural Injunction Prison Realignment in California Evaluating the Smart on Crime Movement De-Incarceration and Crime Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty? References Index
Copyright Date
2015
Topic
General, Criminal Law / General, Penology, Government & Business, Quality Control
Lccn
2015-026067
Dewey Decimal
364.60973
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
True Crime, Law, Business & Economics, Social Science
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