Description

Community justice is a phenomenon of growing interest among academics, policy makers, and criminal justice practitioners. The term reflects the increasing collaboration between criminal justice agencies and communities in the joint pursuit of public safety and a less tangible, but no less significant, pursuit of justice for victims, offenders, and all community members affected by crime. In this book, several leading scholars examine the central concerns of this emerging field. Subjects discussed include the role of community organizations in crime prevention; the structural and cultural issues underlying the concentration of race, poverty, and crime; community policing; and community prosecution and sanctioning.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Part 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 The Community Justice Movement
Part 4 Community Action
Chapter 5 Community Organizations and Crime
Chapter 6 The Takoma Orange Hats: Fighting Crime and Building Community in Washington, D.C.
Chapter 7 Building Community Capacity to Prevent Violence Through Coalitions and Partnerships
Chapter 8 Race and Class
Chapter 9 Toward a Theory of Race
Chapter 10 Crime and the Racial Fears of White Americans
Part 11 Community Policing
Chapter 12 A Tale of Two Targets: Limitations of Community Anticrime Actions
Chapter 13 "Angels in Marble": Problems in Stimulating Community Involvement in Community Policing
Chapter 14 Civil Liberties and Aggressive Enforcement: Balancing the Rights of Individuals and Society in the Drug War
Chapter 15 Disorder and the Court
Part 16 Community Prosecution and Sanctioning
Chapter 17 Community Prosecution: Portland's Experience
Chapter 18 The "Community" in Community Justice: Issues
Part 19 Conclusion
Chapter 20 Community Justice in a Communitarian Perspective
Chapter 21 Index

Product details

Published 25 Jun 1998
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 396
ISBN 9780742574441
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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