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Ethics in Contexts (Hardcover)
James W. Thompson, Richard A. Wright
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Using citation analysis, this study examines the influence and
prestige of scholars, journals, and university departments in the
fields of criminology and criminal justice. In the tradition of
Marvin E. Wolfgang's "Evaluating Criminology," the authors apply
this quantitative method to evaluate the impact of individuals and
their research efforts on two fields and to identify
interconnections among scholars and their publications. This
examination of the most-cited scholars, works, and topics in major
American and international journals from 1986 to 1990 and from 1991
to 1995 provides valuable and unbiased feedback for researchers and
practitioners.
The nine chapters of this book detail a wide range of findings
in both criminology and criminal justice. After an introduction to
the methodology, chapters two, three, and four divide recent
scholarship into two periods, 1986 to 1990 and 1991 to 1995, in
order to consider the most-cited scholars, works, and topics.
Chapter five provides a longitudinal analysis of scholars in the
discipline since 1945. Chapters six and seven provide a system of
prestige-ratings for relevant journals as well as page coverage
analysis of the most influential scholars. The continuing
controversy over whether the two fields are converging or diverging
is the subject of chapter eight, and the work concludes with a
prescription for further research.
This comprehensive examination of the effectiveness of prisons
is virtually alone in showing that prisons are moderately effective
in achieving specific and general deterrence and collective and
selective incapacitation. Wright provides evidence which defends
prisons as important social institutions and argues that
noninterventionist alternative measures are less likely to prevent
crime than conventional imprisonment policies. He also offers
sentencing recommendations that may maximize the effectiveness of
prisons as agents of social control. This up-to-date assessment is
required reading for students, teachers, policymakers, and
practitioners in corrections, penology, and criminal justice.
This new study, written by a distinguished group of small college
faculty and consultants, provides a contemporary portrait of small
colleges--the educational advantages they offer, the problems they
face, and innovative solutions now being developed. The authors
discuss the benefits of education in a small college setting,
including a tightly knit community of learning, a larger proportion
of faculty dedicated to teaching, more personal interaction between
faculty and students, a greater degree of student participation in
all areas, and more emphasis on the moral/ethical implications of
education. The teaching-versus-research debate and its implications
for the small college are considered from the perspectives of
institutional visibility, enrollments, funding, and educational
values. The problems faced by small college faculty, such as
teaching in a small department and the strain of fulfilling
multiple and often conflicting roles, are thoroughly explored.
Chapters designed to help the college teacher on the job offer
suggestions on computer planning in the small college, coping with
teaching courses outside one's areas of expertise, fitting in
research despite heavy teaching loads, and teaching in areas such
as physical education, history, philosophy, and liberal arts in
general. A case study of a cooperative department established by
several colleges and a discussion of the problems of limited
library collections present practical information on new approaches
to enhancing an institution's effectiveness.
This three-volume work offers a comprehensive review of the pivotal
concepts, measures, theories, and practices that comprise
criminology and criminal justice. No longer just a subtopic of
sociology, criminology has become an independent academic field of
study that incorporates scholarship from numerous disciplines
including psychology, political science, behavioral science, law,
economics, public health, family studies, social work, and many
others. The three-volume Encyclopedia of Criminology presents the
latest research as well as the traditional topics which reflect the
field's multidisciplinary nature in a single, authoritative
reference work. More than 525 alphabetically arranged entries by
the leading authorities in the discipline comprise this definitive,
international resource. The pivotal concepts, measures, theories,
and practices of the field are addressed with an emphasis on
comparative criminology and criminal justice. While the primary
focus of the work is on American criminology and contemporary
criminal justice in the United States, extensive global coverage of
other nations' justice systems is included, and the increasing
international nature of crime is explored thoroughly. Providing the
most up-to-date scholarship in addition to the traditional theories
on criminology, the Encyclopedia of Criminology is the essential
one-stop reference for students and scholars alike to explore the
broad expanse of this multidisciplinary field.
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