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Today's Crime and Punishment Issues : Democrats and Republicans
Today's Crime and Punishment Issues : Democrats and Republicans
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ISBN No.: 9781440873324
Pages: 352
Year: 202501
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 138.00
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

An indispensable resource for understanding how politics impacts the U.S. justice system, this book illuminates Republican and Democratic responses and attitudes toward crime, police work, sentencing, incarceration, and rehabilitation. Today's Crime and Punishment explores Democratic and Republican positions and perspectives on a broad array of law enforcement and criminal justice issues, including mass incarceration, sentencing disparities, anti-drug efforts, marijuana legalization, death penalty, mandatory minimums, civil asset forfeiture, prison privatization, rape and other crimes in prison settings, women in prison, support for therapeutic/educational programs, sentencing for juvenile offenders, harsher penalties for hate crimes, and voting rights for ex-felons. The focus is on specific and timely topics in criminal justice that are most susceptible to legislative policies. Readers will benefit by developing an appreciation for how politics impacts the criminal justice system. Readers will understand how the parties have developed laws that impact their lives, dictate acceptable behavior, and legislate appropriate responses for violators. The emphasis of the series is contemporary, but it includes historical perspective to provide a sense of how parties' positions and actions have evolved through time.


Each book gives a balanced overview of the parties' positions, both in rhetoric and practice, with all viewpoints featured. Provides readers with an understanding of how politics impacts the criminal justice system and treatment of law violators Provides an overview of how Republicans and Democrats differ with respect to their views on criminalizing acts and responding to law violators Describes how Republicans and Democrats have been similar in some legislative responses across time Traces the increasing polarization of Republicans and Democrats with respect to some criminal justice issues, such as gun violence.


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