Police Pursuing Justice - Reframing Law Enforcement for the Twenty-First Century

Using Pennsylvania as a case-study, this book examines how BARJ legislation "trickles down" to the law enforcement level and affects police officer behavior, discretion, and decision-making processes.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Primer on the Historical Development of Juvenile Justice
Chapter 2: Balanced and Restorative Justice
Chapter 3: Police and Discretion
Chapter 4: Our Questions and How We Answered Them
Chapter 5: BARJ and the Police in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Minnesota
Chapter 6: Does Legislation Matter? What it All Means.
Chapter 7: Policy and Behavior: Policing Juveniles in the 21st Century
Appendix A: Data Management
Appendix B: Change Scores
References
About the Authors

About the author

Samantha L. Bennett is assistant professor of criminal justice at Muskingum University.
Jonathon A. Cooper is associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Summary

Using Pennsylvania as a case-study, this book examines how BARJ legislation “trickles down” to the law enforcement level and affects police officer behavior, discretion, and decision-making processes.

Product details

• Authors: Samantha L. Bennett, Samantha L. Cooper Bennett, Jonathon A. Cooper
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2023
• EAN: 9781666911053
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-105-3
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Policing Perspectives and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Pennsylvania, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Police & security services, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Police and security services