The new criminal justice thinking /
edited by Sharon Dolovich and Alexandra Natapoff.
- ix, 346 pages ; 23 cm
"Also available as an ebook."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: mapping the new criminal justice thinking / The criminal regulatory state / Disaggregating the criminal regulatory state : a comment on Rachel Barkow's "the criminal regulatory state" / Improve, dynamite, or dissolve the criminal regulatory state? / The penal pyramid / Linking criminal theory and social practice : a response to Natapoff / Canons of evasion in constitutional criminal law / Taking the constitution seriously? : three approaches to law's competence in addressing authority and professionalism / Making prisoner rights real : the case of mothers / The situated actor and the production of punishment : toward an empirical social psychology of criminal procedure / Beyond Ferguson : integrating critical race theory and the "social psychology of criminal procedure" / Jumping bunnies and legal rules : the organizational sociologist and the legal scholar should be friends / The second coming of dignity / Dignity is the new legitimacy / The new (old) criminal justice thinking -- "Miserology" : a new look at the history of criminology / Sharon Dolovich and Alexandra Natapoff -- Rachel Barkow -- Daniel Richman -- Stephanos Bibas -- Alexandra Natapoff -- Meda Chesney-Lind -- Sharon Dolovich -- Hadar Aviram -- Lisa Kerr -- Mona Lynch -- Priscilla Ocen -- Issa Kohler-Hausmann -- Jonathan Simon -- Jeffrey Fagan -- Mariana Valverde.
"After five decades of punitive expansion, the entire U.S. criminal justice system (mass incarceration, the War on Drugs, police practices, the treatment of juveniles and the mentally ill, glaring racial disparity, the death penalty and more) faces challenging questions. What exactly is criminal justice? How much of it is a system of law and how much is a collection of situational social practices? What roles do the Constitution and the Supreme Court play? How do race and gender shape outcomes? How does change happen, and what changes or adaptations should be pursued? The New Criminal Justice Thinking addresses the challenges of this historic moment by asking essential theoretical and practical questions about how the criminal system operates. In this thorough and thoughtful volume, scholars from across the disciplines of legal theory, sociology, criminology, critical race theory, and organizational theory offer crucial insights into how the criminal system works in both theory and practice. By engaging both classic issues and new understandings, this volume offers a comprehensive framework for thinking about the modern justice system"--Publisher's website.