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This book contains state-of-the-art reviews of knowledge on topics relating to crime and the criminal justice system. Its authors are from Australia, Canada, England, Wales, France, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. The disciplines covered include anthropology, biology, criminology, developmental psychology, economics, history, law, neuropsychology, operations research, philosophy, political science, social psychology, sociology, and statistics, from the 13th century to the present. Recent trends in youth violence and victimization in the United States are analyzed. It is noted that the dramatic decrease in youth violence since its peak in the early 1990's has been narrowly confined with respect to race, sex, and age, but not geography, thus making forecasting very difficult. A policy history of 25 years of sentencing innovation in North Carolina is provided along with a discussion of the results of legislation in North Carolina designed to match sentencing by judges to prison-use priorities. It is reported that judges reverted to earlier practices within 5 years. Three common criminological theories ar

Author

Michael H Tonry; National Institute of Justice (U.S.)

Publisher

University of Chicago Press Journals

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226808611

Subjects

Social Science, Law, Science