Crime Policy in America: Laws, Institutions, and Programs

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University Press of America, 2008 - 311 pages
This book is a systematic examination of the nature of America's crime and criminal justice system as defined by its policy-makers at different times and in disparate contexts of social and political realities. By examining legislative documents and court cases and analyzing federal and state policy developments in such areas as drug crimes, juvenile crimes, sex crimes, and cyber crimes, this book provides a historically embedded and policy relevant understanding of how America's system of criminal justice was born, how it has grown, and where it is going. Book jacket.
 

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CRIME POLICY MEANING NATURE ACTORS AND CONTEXTS
1
FEDERALIZATION OF CRIME AND JUSTICE POLICY HISTORY TRENDS AND PROCESSES
47
THE WAR ON DRUGS EVOLUTION OF THE POLICY OF CRIMINALIZATION
79
POLICYMAKING IN JUVENILE JUSTICE GROWTH CHANGE AND CONTINUTY
113
SEX CRIMES LAWS AND POLICY DEVELOPMENTS
149
CYBER CRIMES LAWS AND POLICY DEVELOPMENTS
221
CRIME AND JUSTICE POLICY IN AMERICA IN THE 21st CENTURY THE EMERGING TRENDS
253
REFERENCES
285
INDEX
309
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Shahid M. Shahidullah is Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice Program and Center for Criminal Justice Policy at Virginia State University.

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