Criminal sentencing / edited by Robert Emmet Long.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : H.W. Wilson, 1995.
Description
152 p. ; 19 cm.

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    A collection of articles that examine America's response to crime; examining the question of how children should be treated in the criminal justice system; discussing the effects of mandatory sentencing; debating the use of the death penalty; and commenting on the Clinton crime bill.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-152).
    Contents
    • A generation of stone killers / Scott Minerbrook
    • American killers are getting younger / James Alex Fox & Glenn Pierce
    • Most dangerous and endangered / Rick Tetzeli
    • Action Jackson / Hanna Rosin
    • When kids go bad / Richard Lacayo
    • California's teen gulags / Donna Foote
    • The law of unintended consequences / Neil Steinberg
    • And throw away the key / Jill Smolowe
    • L̀ock 'em up' can't possibly cut crime much / David C. Anderson
    • Walking prisons / Max Winkler
    • A solution to prison overcrowding / Johnathan Turley
    • The Supreme Court and capital punishment / Cornelius F. Murphy --Catholics and the death penalty / Robert F. Drinan
    • Not in my name / Barbara Dority
    • You don't always get Perry Mason / Richard Lacayo
    • Witness to another execution / Susan Blaustein
    • State of the Union / William J. Clinton
    • A cold-eyed look at crime / Ted Gest & Gordon Witkin
    • No justice, no peace / Rick Szykowny
    • The economics of crime / Michael J. Mandel & Paul Magnusson.
    ISBN
    0824208684
    LCCN
    ^^^95002365^
    OCLC
    32014516
    RCP
    H - O
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