This textbook reader examines the concept of flawed policies in the criminal justice arena. The authors address the costs of bad criminal justice policy and off

This book shows how to reduce out-of-control criminal justice and create greater public safety, justice, and accountability at less cost.

This is the first book to challenge the broken-windows theory of crime, which argues that permitting minor misdemeanors, such as loitering and vagrancy, to go u

Rather than providing students with "the answers," Making Sense of Criminal Justice: Policies and Practices, Third Edition, challenges them to think critically

Analysis of U.S. domestic policy on crime reveals a disparity between reaction to street crime in contrast to white collar crime. John Hagan argues this was not