Crime and Justice: A Review of Research CJ (CHUP)
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Since 1979 "the Crime and Justice" series has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. "Volume 40, Crime and Justice in Scandinavia", offers the most comprehensive and authoritative look ever available at criminal justice policies, practices, and research in the Nordic countries. It covers topics that range from the history of violence through juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, and sentencing to controversial contemporary policies on prostitution, victims, and organized crime.
Youth violence has become one of the most contentious and perplexing issues in debates on crime policy, not the least because of the sharp increase in violence among young minority males since the mid-1980s. Featuring articles by American and European scholars from many fields, this text provides an up-to-date and authoritative overview of policy issues and research developments concerning crime and violence among the young.
America's prison population has quadrupled in the 1980s-1990s, with an enormous impact on families, communities, correctional officers, policy makers and prisoners themselves. The use of imprisonment as a means of social control has come to the fore in many public debates - whether the issues be deterrence, incapacitation, public spending, overcrowding or the effects of imprisonment on the offenders' later lives. This work addresses these and related topics, offering analyses of particular issues that deserve greater consideration, such as the effects of imprisonment on the children of inmates, the relationship between prisons and the surrounding communities, medical care in prisons, prisoner suicide and coping, adult correctional treatment, prison management trends and related topics.