Uncertain Justice: Fixing the Problems with the Police, Prisons, Immigrants, Opioids, and the Divisions in America - Softcover

Brakke, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1949537137 ISBN 13: 9781949537130

Publisher: Changemakers Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Why is there so much uncertainty about how to reduce crime and fix what's wrong with the criminal justice system? How can we make these fixes and lower the high costs of incarceration?

UNCERTAIN JUSTICE discusses recent problems and suggests some fixes. To this end, it presents a commentary based on a recent series of press releases on current issues and is divided into these sections:

- Improving citizen-police relationships

- Promoting prison reform and better prison sentencing

- Healing the divisions in American society

- Dealing with illegal immigration

- Coping with the opioid crisis

- Portraying the criminal justice crisis in popular culture

- Using a social media and video campaign to help fix the criminal justice system.

The chapters in each section highlight what's wrong in response to recent developments in legislation, in the news, and in research reports. Then, each chapter concludes with some suggestions for reforming the system.

Today, these fixes are needed more than ever, given the spiraling costs of crime and imprisoning too many prisoners for much longer than necessary. As the book describes, we need to have as many productive, understanding, legal, law-abiding citizens as possible to move the country forward.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Brakke is a scientist based in the Little Rock, Arkansas area. He became interested in studying the criminal justice system because, as described in his first book American Justice?, his life was turned upside down by the system. He has previously told his wife's story along with a critique of the criminal justice system in American Justice? After that, Brakke went on to look at other problems in the system and the country in general and how to fix them. His other books include: Crime in America, Fractured America, The Costly U.S. Prison System, Fixing the U.S. Criminal Justice System, Dealing with Illegal Immigration and the Opioid Crisis, The Price of Justice in America, and Cops Aren't Such Bad Guys. To publish them, he set up a publishing company American Leadership Books, featuring books on criminal justice and social issues, which are available in print and e-books through Amazon, Ingram, Kindle, and other major distributors. Since these first books were directed primarily at law enforcement professionals, politicians, and academics, Brakke is now developing a series of books on criminal justice to appeal to the general public, especially to conservatives. The books' website is: www.americanleadershipbooks.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Changemakers Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1949537137
• ISBN 13: 9781949537130
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138