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Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform - Learning from Failure (Hardcover, Revised Edition)
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Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform - Learning from Failure (Hardcover, Revised Edition)
Series: Urban Institute Press
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In this revised edition of their concise, readable, yet
wide-ranging book, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox tackle a question
students and scholars of law, criminology, and political science
constantly face: what mistakes have led to the problems that
pervade the criminal justice system in the United States? The
reluctance of criminal justice policymakers to talk openly about
failure, the authors argue, has stunted the public conversation
about crime in this country and stifled new ideas. It has also
contributed to our inability to address such problems as chronic
offending in low-income neighborhoods, an overreliance on
incarceration, the misuse of pretrial detention, and the high rates
of recidivism among parolees. Berman and Fox offer students and
policymakers an escape from this fate by writing about failure in
the criminal justice system. Their goal is to encourage a more
forthright dialogue about criminal justice, one that acknowledges
that many new initiatives fail and that no one knows for certain
how to reduce crime. For the authors, this is not a source of
pessimism, but a call to action. This revised edition is updated
with a new foreword by Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., and afterword by Greg
Berman.
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