Crime Control and Social Justice: The Delicate Balance

by Darnell F. Hawkins

Book Overview

This collection examines the perennial tension between society's need to protect its citizens from crime, while assuring that the crime control and reduction measures that it enacts do not deny basic rights or exacerbate the socioeconomic inequality that gives rise to disparate rates of offending. Such tension exists in all modern societies, but it has been particularly evident in the United States, a nation whose history manifests both group inequality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313307903
• ISBN13: 9780313307904
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 506 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"