Research Catalog

Title

The community justice ideal : preventing crime and achieving justice / Todd R. Clear, David R. Karp.

Author

Clear, Todd R.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors

Karp, David R., 1964-

Description

vii, 195 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In recent years, some officials, sensing that the public is losing confidence in their actions, have changed their approach to fighting crime. They have begun to devote more attention and resources to building healthy communities where criminality cannot take root and to making citizens partners rather than adversaries of the criminal justice system. Many of these efforts have been successful and have inspired widespread imitation. But to date, this has been a movement without a philosophy, a set of experiments lacking a strategic model. ... Todd R. Clear and David R. Karp set forth a comprehensive plan for increasing public involvement in criminal justice practice. They show that doing so will not only reduce crime and fear of crime more effectively than "get tough" approaches, but will also help repair deteriorating social ties in communities across the country. In this way, they content, community justice practice can make an important contribution to improving and enriching American public life."--

Series Statement

Crime and society

Uniform Title

Crime & society (Boulder, Colo.)

Subject

• Community organization > United States
• Criminal justice, Administration of > United States > Citizen participation
• Neighborhood justice centers > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Community justice movement -- Crime, community, and criminal justice -- A positive view of community life -- Principles of a democratic community justice -- Principles of egalitarian community justice -- Realizing community justice -- Evaluating community justice initiatives.

ISBN

• 0813367654 (hc : alk. paper)
• 0813367662 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^99023202^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library