Visions for Change: Crime and Justice in the 21st Century - Softcover

Muraskin, Roslyn; Roberts Ph.D., Albert R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130962392 ISBN 13: 9780130962393

Publisher: Pearson, 1998

Synopsis

An updated collection of readings by some of the most prominent criminal justicians in the field. Visions for Change looks at every aspect in Criminal Justice from Police to courts to corrections.

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About the Author

Roslyn Muraskin, Ph.D., is Professor of Criminal Justice at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. She received her doctorate in criminal justice from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1989. She holds a master's degree in political science from New York University and a bachelor of arts degree from Queens College. She is the Trustee for the northeast region of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS). Dr. Muraskin was the recipient of the Award for Excellence from the Minorities Section of the ACJS, honored for her work with AIDS education by the Long Island Association for AIDS Care, and was the recipient of the Fellow Award from the Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice Sciences. Her publications include It's a Crime: Women and Justice (third edition, Spring 2002), Morality and the Law, and is working on a major text in the field of corrections, all published by Prentice Hall. She is also the editor of The Justice Professional, a referenced journal published quarterly by Taylor and Francis. She is the author of many major papers and articles, and is often quoted in the media as an expert in women's issues and issues of criminal justice.

Albert R. Roberts, Ph.D., is Professor of Criminal Justice and Social Work at University College, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey. He is Chairperson of the Administration of Justice Department at Rutgers. He received his doctorate in social work form the University of Maryland, School of Social Work. His M.S. degree is in sociology and criminology from the graduate faculty of Long Island University, and his B.A. is from the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. Dr. Roberts is the lead editor on the 130chapter volume entitled Social Workers' Desk Reference (Oxford University Press, 2001) and the Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research, second edition (Oxford University Press, 2000). He is also the Editor of two different book series with Springer Publishing Company. He is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Brief Therapy (with Dr. Gilbert J. Greene).He has numerous publications to his credit, including numerous peer-reviewed journals and book chapters.

From the Back Cover

This book is essential to both university students and criminal justice practitioners as it addresses many of the critical issues in the field of criminal justice. For the former, it will help them learn how to develop sharper visions of change and, for the latter, how to be better prepared to deal with the implication of change.

New To This Edition
– Prison Privatization-Issues for the Twenty-First Century
–Women and the Law: An Agenda for Change in the Twenty-First Century
–The International Law Implications on the United States Death Penalty
–Victim Impact Testimony in Capital Cases

PLUS

• All chapters have been updated and are right on target for the twenty-first century!
• Envisioning change is an awesome task. In this revised edition with brand new chapters. and the latest in materials, human sensibilities are examined in one of their most daring forms―criminal justice.
• At the end of the criminal justice continuum, we are faced with the insensibility of absolute freedom whereby some people claim the power to promote their own interests by all means possible.
• The vision here is human liberty. This dialectical dilemma that will never go away compels us to consider the truth of who we are, how we are to live together, and the utility of the laws, courts, police, prisons, and the other criminal justice organs that we have amassed.
• In this third edition of Visions for Change, experienced academicians face this very dilemma and offer their solutions by envisioning change and defending their vision intelligently.
• The practice of criminal justice is the nation's foremost test of civility, the way we as Americans handle criminals.

Since criminal justice change is bound to continue, must be made more functional; more conducive justice and rationality.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0130962392
• ISBN 13: 9780130962393
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 444