Controlling The Dangerous Classes

Author : Randall G. Shelden
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478636939
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Controlling the Dangerous Classes written by Randall G. Shelden and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, the powerful have created laws, developed agencies to enforce those laws, and established institutions to punish lawbreakers. Maintaining the social order to their advantage resulted in the systematic repression of disadvantaged groups—the “dangerous classes.” The third edition retains a historical approach to exploring patterns of social control and, through current examples, demonstrates how those strategies continue today. The authors trace the roots of race, class, and gender bias in how laws are written, interpreted, and applied. The management of dangerous classes is not a recent phenomenon; there is a long history of keeping those who derive the least advantage from the status quo (and therefore pose the greatest threat) under control. There was and is one system of justice for the privileged and a very different system for the less privileged. The criminal justice system—from the law to daily operations of the police, courts, and corrections—generally comes down hardest on those with the least amount of power and influence and is the most lenient with those with the most power and influence. The book raises critical questions. What is a crime? What is law? Whose interests are served by the law and the criminal justice system? What patterns are repeated generation after generation? How does the criminal justice system relate to larger issues such as social inequality, social class, race, and gender? Contemplation of these topics contributes to informed public dialogue and careful deliberation about the present state and the future of criminal justice.

Author : Randall G. Shelden
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Controlling the Dangerous Classes written by Randall G. Shelden and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2001 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the history of criminal justice from a critical perspective and explores the historical biases of the criminal justice system. The overall theme of this book is that both the making of laws and the interpretation and application of these laws throughout the history of the criminal justice system has, historically, been class, gender, and racially biased. Moreover, one of the major functions of the criminal justice system has been to control those from the most disadvantaged sectors of the population, that is, the "dangerous classes." This theme is explored using a historical model, tracing the development of criminal law through the development of the police institution, the juvenile justice system, and the prison system. For anyone interested in the history of criminal justice.

Author : Randall G. Shelden
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Controlling the Dangerous Classes written by Randall G. Shelden and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2008 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text covers the history of criminal justice from a critical perspective and explores the historical biases of the criminal justice system. The overall theme of this book is that both the making of laws and the interpretation and application of these laws throughout the history of the criminal justice system has, historically, been class, gender, and racially biased. Moreover, one of the major functions of the criminal justice system has been to control those from the most disadvantaged sectors of the population, that is, the "dangerous classes." This theme is explored using a historical model, tracing the development of criminal law through the development of the police institution, the juvenile justice system, and the prison system.

Author : Betty Reid Mandell
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welfare in America written by Betty Reid Mandell and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1975 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of readings on welfare and social services as an instrument of social control in the USA - criticizes the inequities of the welfare system to certain social classes (incl. The effects of family structure, children, use of birth control and selective administration of justice, etc.), etc. Graphs, references and statistical tables.

Author : Nils Christie
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415234870
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime Control as Industry written by Nils Christie and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christie argues that crime control, rather than crime itself, is the real danger for our future. He documents the forces driving the prison industry in Europe and the United States, offering an explanation of increased incarceration rates in the 1980s and 1990s. The growing use of prisons has paralleled two important social changes, both with a potential for unrest : the increasingly unequal distribution of wealth, and restriction of access to well-paid work. Instead of attempting to deal with these problems through positive social changes, developed countries have called on the crime control industry to deal with the consequences. The desire for security, stability, and predictability among the more affluent elements of society has fuelled the willingness of politicians and policymakers to make huge investments in the crime control industry, particularly its most costly feature, prisons and jails. The book shows how trends in the use of imprisonment have risen and fallen over time, and it traces this to underlying societal values as to what is right and fair in the treatment of other human beings. It is finally such values that will determine the limits societies will choose to impose on the crime control industry. Thoughts, values, and ethics, not the drive for profit, must ultimately determine the limits of control.

Author : Aminda M. Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144221838X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thought Reform and China's Dangerous Classes written by Aminda M. Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first detailed study of the essential relationship between thought reform and the "dangerous classes"--The prostitutes, beggars, petty criminals, and other "lumpenproletarians" the Communists saw as a threat to society and the revolution. Aminda Smith takes readers inside early-PRC reformatories, where the new state endeavored to transform "vagrants" into members of the laboring masses. As places where "the people" were literally created, these centers became testing grounds for rapidly changing ideas and experiments about thought reform and the subjects they produced. Smit.

Author : Charles Loring Brace
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290768443
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them written by Charles Loring Brace and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Gregg Barak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442268891
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class, Race, Gender, and Crime written by Gregg Barak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class, Race, Gender, and Crime is an introduction to crime and the criminal justice system through the lens of class, race, gender, and their intersections. The book explores how power and privilege shape our understanding of crime and justice. The fifth edition features new material on police violence and Black Lives Matter, disability, and more.

Author : Charles Loring Brace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Classes of New York ... written by Charles Loring Brace and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
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Download or read book A Treatise on State and Federal Control of Persons and Property in the United States written by Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: