Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the
context of justice policy and programs, and addresses the important
relationship between the criminal justice system and the community
in the USA.
Taking a bold stance in the criminal justice debate, this book
argues that crime management is more effective through the use of
informal (as opposed to formal) social control. It demonstrates how
an increasing number of criminal justice elements are beginning to
understand that the development of partnerships within the
community that enhance informal social control will lead to a
stabilization and possible a decline in crime, especially violent
crime, and make communities more liveable. Borrowing from an
eclectic toolbox of ideas and strategies - community organizing,
environmental crime prevention, private-public partnerships,
justice initiatives - Community Justice puts forward a new approach
to establishing safe communities, and highlights the failure of the
current American justice system in its lack of vision and misuse of
resources.
Providing detailed information about how community justice fits
within each area of the criminal justice system, and including
relevant case studies to exemplify this philosophy in action, this
book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate
students of subjects such as criminology, law and sociology.
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