New perspectives on crime and criminal justice / / edited by Austin Sarat

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910964474103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bradford, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2009
• ISBN: 9786612500077; 9781848556539; 1848556535; 9781848556690; 1848556691; 9781282271463; 1282271466; 9781282500075; 1282500074
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 218 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Studies in law, politics and society, , 1059-4337 ; ; v. 47, special issue
• Altri autori (Persone): SaratAustin
• Disciplina: 344
• Soggetti: Crime prevention - United States; Imprisonment - United States; Bail - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia; Criminal justice law; Law - Criminal Law - General
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover -- Special Issue New Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Editorial board -- Chapter 1. Zoning out disorder: assessing contemporary practices of urban social control -- Introduction: ''Anywhere but Aurora'' -- Marking space -- Situating urban social control -- New techniques of urban policing: a catalog -- New techniques of urban policing: an assessment -- Justifying the new techniques -- Expanding police authority -- Unintended consequences -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2. Aspects of non-democratic policing: the rise of the NAZI policing system -- ; Introduction -- Routine and emergency in police studies -- Theorizing policing: dramaturgy -- Democratic policing -- Non-democratic policing -- Changes and the transformation of the german police post-world war I -- Features of the transformation -- Expectations of democratic policing applied to the Nazi police -- Reflections on the present -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3. Protecting due process in a punitive era: an analysis of changes in providing counsel to the poor -- Introduction -- The evolution of crime policy: the punitive turn -- The evolution of indigent defense policies -- State politics and indigent defense policies: 1975-2005 -- Data, measures, and analysis plan -- Findings -- Discussion and conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 4. Judicial discretion and the unfinished agenda of American bail reform: lessons from Philadelphia's evidence-based judicial strategy -- Introduction -- Problems with American bail practices -- Challenges for reform -- Judicial reform of bail: the basis for the guidelines strategy -- Implementing judicial guidelines (I): the Philadelphia bail experiment -- Judicial reform neutralized by jail overcrowding.; Judicial guidelines (II): response to jail overcrowding -- Crowding returns with new scrutiny of pretrial release decisionmaking -- Conclusion: lessons to be drawn from judicial reform in Philadelphia -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5. Understanding mass incarceration as a grand social experiment -- Grand social experiments -- Mass incarceration as a grand social experiment -- The contours of the grand social experiment in mass incarceration -- Lessons learned -- What is the future of the punishment imperativequest -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6. Supermax prisons and the trajectory of exception -- Bare life -- Exception -- Indifference -- Choice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" contains a Special Issue on crime and criminal justice. It brings together the work of scholars whose work usefully illuminates central questions in about how we define and process those who violate the criminal law and about the technologies of policing and punishment. The articles published here exemplify the exciting and innovative work now being done in interdisciplinary legal scholarship.