Community Justice: An Emerging Field (Rights and Responsibilities, Communitarian Responses) - Softcover

Karp, David R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847690849 ISBN 13: 9780847690848

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Amitai Etzioni is the founder and director of the Communitarian Network and University Professor at The George Washington University. He has served as a senior advisor to the White House and President of the American Sociological Association. He has taught sociology at Columbia University, the Harvard Business School, and the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of 22 books, including The New Golden Rule, Political Unification Revisited and My Brother's Keeper: A Memoir and a Message. A recent study listed him as one of the leading hundred public intellectuals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847690849
• ISBN 13: 9780847690848
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400