Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice Policy

Featuring all 23 policy proposals and 30 response essays presented at the American Society of Criminology's 2009 annual meeting, CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY is an outstanding new anthology of policy-focused essays. This thought-provoking text presents sections on justice policy, drug policy, terrorism policy, immigration policy, policing policy, juvenile justice policy, and corrections policy, and includes essays by some of the leading criminologists in the field. Edited by ASC President Todd Clear along with Natasha Frost and Joshua Freilich, this book's succinct format makes it an invaluable resource for those studying criminology and criminal justice, and one that readers will reference again and again.