Emerging Criminal Justice: Three Pillars for a Proactive Justice System / Edition 1

by Paul H. Hahn

Overview

Certain to stimulate thinking and debate in academic and professional arenas, Emerging Criminal Justice presents a new model for crime control that replaces the ‘war on crime' and other failed models. The book avoids the use of unnecessarily complex language and phraseology, but cuts straight to the heart of what Paul H Hahn refers to as the ‘three pillars for a new proactive criminal justice system' that include: expanded notions of community policing; community corrections; and restorative justice.The book invites its readers to take a good look at the entire criminal justice system, as a whole, and consider a new paradigm for understanding and correcting the system and most of its elements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761912835
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/18/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.54(d)

Table of Contents

THE NEED FOR A PROACTIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Emerging Criminal Justice
Tradition and Reaction Are Not Sufficient
Understanding and Controlling Violence
The Need for Proactive Intervention
THREE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS FOR A NEW PROACTIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Community-Policing
Community-Based Corrections
Restorative Justice

Editorial Reviews

Hahn (criminal justice, Xavier U.) sees community policing and corrections, and restorative justice as the pillars of a new, proactive US criminal justice system. He emphasizes the prevention of crime in its early stages, alternative facilities that are as nonrestrictive as possible, careful consideration of the role of causality in the lives of those who commit crimes, an holistic view of the criminal justice system, and the use of secure incarceration only as a last resort. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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