The development of crime policy in the United States for many
generations has been hampered by a drastic shortage of knowledge
and data, an excess of partisanship and instinctual responses, and
a one-way tendency to expand the criminal justice system. Even if a
three-decade pattern of prison growth came to a full stop in the
early 2000s, the current decade will be by far the most punitive in
U.S. history, hitting some minority communities particularly hard.
The book examines the history, scope, and effects of the
revolution in America's response to crime since 1970. Henry Ruth
and Kevin Reitz offer a comprehensive, long-term, pragmatic
approach to increase public understanding of and find improvements
in the nation's response to crime. Concentrating on meaningful
areas for change in policing, sentencing, guns, drugs, and juvenile
crime, they discuss such topics as new priorities for the use of
incarceration; aggressive policing; the war on drugs; the need to
switch the gun control debate to a focus on crime gun regulation; a
new focus on offenders' transition from confinement to freedom; and
the role of private enterprise.
A book that rejects traditional liberal and conservative
outlooks, "The Challenge of Crime" takes a major step in offering
new approaches for the nation's responses to crime.
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