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Wither Criminal Justice: An Argument for a Reformed Discipline
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The authors argued that criminal justice as an academic discipline must get smaller if we are to achieve larger goals of social justice outlined here, using the war on drugs as an example, which runs counter to the goal of promoting social justice in America.Abstract:
The American criminal justice system fails to achieve justice, reduce crime, and provide equal protection to Americans regardless of their social class, race, and gender. But, criminal justice as an academic area of study has become a popular and fast growing liberal arts major in the United States, churning out tens of thousands to work in the criminal justice system. Given the demonstrable harms caused by criminal justice, which are suffered disproportionately by the least powerful people, academic criminologists and criminal justicians have the obligation to promote a reformed discipline. This article briefly summarizes the evidence of bias in the criminal justice system and then turns to how these biases relate to criminal justice as an academic discipline. Using the war on drugs as an example, I argue that the practice of criminal justice as an academic endeavor runs counter to the goal of promoting social justice in America. One of the ironic conclusions of this article is that criminal justice as an academic discipline must get smaller if we are to achieve larger goals of social justice outlined here.read more
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Forging a Convention for Crimes Against Humanity: Crimes Against Humanity and the International Criminal Court
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Crime, Justice, and the Under‐Laborer: On the Criminology of the Shadow and the Search for Disciplinary Identity and Legitimacy
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Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising. Research in Brief. National Institute of Justice.
Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising
Lawrence W. Sherman,Denise C. Gottfredson,Doris L. MacKenzie,John E. Eck,Peter Reuter,Shawn D. Bushway +5 more
TL;DR: In 1996, a Federal law required the U.S. Attorney General to provide Congress with an independent review of the Many crime prevention programs work. Others don’t.
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
TL;DR: The face in the criminal justice carnival mirror is also very frequently black face as discussed by the authors, but it is no laughing matter, it is the face of evil reflected in a Carnival Mirror.
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The Crime Drop in America
Alfred Blumstein,Joel Wallman +1 more
TL;DR: The recent rise and fall of American violence has been discussed in this article, where the authors present an economic model of recent trends in violence in the US, including the rise and decline of hard drugs, drug markets, and violence in inner-city New York.