| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xi, 271 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
Discourse on disparities in sentencing, representation, and arrests in America according to race. |
| Contents |
I. American democratic society besieged by crime. 1. Present crisis of freedom under law -- 2. Influences on crime outside the criminal justice system -- II. Criminal justice in trouble. 3. Public disrepute of criminal justice -- 4. Injustice in criminal laws and agencies of enforcement -- 5. Injustice in the courts -- 6. The waste of corrections -- 7. Confusion and conflict of purpose -- 8. Rehabilitation in many modes -- III. Formation of the American conscience. 9. Puritanism : a paradoxical heritage -- 10. The Great Awakening and Jeffersonian humanism -- 11. The rush for riches : its social cost -- 12. Race, national origin and violence -- 13. MInority religions -- 14. Time and space in American culture -- 15. Two Americas -- IV. An ethical philosophy of criminal justice. 16. An emerging ethical consensus -- 17. A basic philosophy of criminal justice -- V. Social defense and restoration in practice. 18. Fortifying the community -- 19. The victim : forgotten person of American criminal justice -- 20. Criminal law : its scope and penalties -- 21. The police -- 22. The courts -- 23. Corrections -- 24. Citizen responsibilities in criminal justice. |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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Criminal justice, Administration of. (OCoLC)fst00883246
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Other Form: |
Online version: DeWolf, L. Harold (Lotan Harold), 1905- Crime and justice in America. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, [1975] (OCoLC)577150641 |
| ISBN |
0060619112 |
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9780060619114 |
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