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Zusatztext ...an engaged but evidence-based argument! and it brings alive the literature which it reviews. While its intended audience was probably the intelligent American politician! it deserves to be read widely! not least by criminology students. Informationen zum Autor Michael Tonry is one of the nation's most respected experts on crime and punishment. The author of the highly acclaimed Malign Neglect and (with Norval Morris) Between Prison and Probation, he is Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota. He has worked as an advisor to federal and state agencies in the United States, Australia and Canada, to national government agencies in European countries, and tointernational organizations. Klappentext In this wide-ranging analysis, Michael Tonry argues that those responsible for crafting America's criminal justice policy have lost their way in a forest of good intentions, political cynicism, and public anxieties. American crime control politics over time have created a punishment system noone would knowingly have chosen yet one that no one seems able to change. Prevailing sensibilities rather than timeless truths govern the American war on crime, resulting in policies both wasteful and harsh. U.S. crime trends closely resemble those of other nations, yet American policies, shaped bydifferent sensibilities, are much more punitive. Seamlessly blending history with an easy presentation of day-to-day realities and empirical evidence, Tonry proposes tangible, specific solutions that can serve as a platform for criminal justice reform. We know how to create an effective and humane criminal justice system. Now we must have thecourage to do so, by abandoning the current status quo, which is both costly and cruel in favor of practices that will move America closer to the mainstream of contemporary Western values. Zusammenfassung Spells out how American crime policy has reached the lowpoint it has and where we can go from here. This work explains how the worst of policies can be undone and how the avoidable human suffering they produce can be diminished. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture 2: Why So Many Americans Are in Prison 3: Cycles and Sensibilities 4: Moral Panics and "Windows of Opportunity" 5: Crime Trends and the Effects of Crime Control 6: Formerly Unthinkable Policies 7: Unthought Thoughts 8: Better Understanding, People, and Policies References Index ...
