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Community Justice
Contributor(s): Clear, Todd R. (Author), Hamilton, John R., Jr. (Author), Cadora, Eric (Author)
ISBN: 0415780276     ISBN-13: 9780415780278
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $68.39  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Penology
- Social Science | Criminology
- Social Science | Social Work
Dewey: 364.68
LCCN: 2010008970
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.60 lbs) 166 pages
 
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Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs, and addresses the important relationship between the criminal justice system and the community in the USA.

Taking a bold stance in the criminal justice debate, this book argues that crime management is more effective through the use of informal (as opposed to formal) social control. It demonstrates how an increasing number of criminal justice elements are beginning to understand that the development of partnerships within the community that enhance informal social control will lead to a stabilization and possible a decline in crime, especially violent crime, and make communities more liveable. Borrowing from an eclectic toolbox of ideas and strategies - community organizing, environmental crime prevention, private-public partnerships, justice initiatives - Community Justice puts forward a new approach to establishing safe communities, and highlights the failure of the current American justice system in its lack of vision and misuse of resources.

Providing detailed information about how community justice fits within each area of the criminal justice system, and including relevant case studies to exemplify this philosophy in action, this book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of subjects such as criminology, law and sociology.