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Criminal Justice in the Urban Community
This text explores the criminal justice system's role in urban environments, focusing on policing, courts, corrections, and the social challenges faced in these settings. It examines the interactions between law enforcement and marginalized communities, emphasizing the effects of urban crime, socioeconomic factors, and public policy. It also highlights reform efforts, criminal justice ethics, and community-based strategies aimed at improving justice outcomes.
- Author
- Lumen Learning
- Publisher
- Lumen Learning
- Source
- LibreTexts
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 38 sections
- 01: Understanding the History of the City
- 1.01: Analyzing Race Crime and Urban Violence After Ferguson- Research Perspectives and Data
- 02: Broken Windows
- 2.01: Postindustrial Cities and Explanations of OrderMaintenance Policing
- 03: Urban Jails
- 3.01: Manhattan U.S. Attorney Finds Pattern And Practice Of Excessive Force And Violence At NYC Jails On Rikers Island That Violates The Constitutional Rights Of Adolescent Male Inmates
- 3.02: SDNY Rikers Report
- 04: Housing Discrimination
- 4.01: Housing Discrimination Against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012
- 05: Class Race Gender and Criminal Justice- Understanding Disparities in the System
- 5.01: Human Architecture- Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge
- 06: Urban Inequality- Banishing the Indigent
- 6.01: Banishment in Public Housing- Testing an Evolution of Broken Windows
- 08: History and Biography- The Sociological Imagination
- 8.01: Video- Sociological Imagination
- 09: Social Status Social Forces and Social Inequality
- 9.01: Race in the United States Criminal Justice System
- 9.02: Race Crime and the Pool of Surplus Criminality- Or Why the War on Drugs Was a War on Blacks
- 10: Empirical Data and Research Methods
- 10.01: Research Methods for Everyday Life
- 10.02: Unobtrusive Research- Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
- 10.03: New York City Map
- 10.04: Crime Statistics
- 11: From the War on Poverty to the War on the Poor
- 11.01: Where the War on Poverty and Black Power Meet- A Right to the City Perspective on American Urban Politics in the 1960s
- 12: From the War on Crime to the War on Drugs
- 12.01: Book Review- From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime- The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
- 13: Black Youth
- 13.01: Recognizing Dignity- Young Black Men Growing Up in an Era of Surveillance
- 14: Juvenile Offenders in Adult Prisons
- 14.01: 24 States Put Juvenile Offenders in Solitary But Advocates Are Trying to Change That
- 15: The School to Prison Pipeline
- 15.01: Students Police and the School-To-Prison Pipeline
- 15.02: Can Cities End the School-to-Prison Pipeline Relentless Organizers Are Tallying Wins
- 16: Alternatives to the Criminal Justice System As a Solution to Social Problems
- 16.01: After 20-Year Fight Bronx Community Wins Big on Development Project Committed to Living Wages and Local Economy
- 17: Urban Unrest and Reform
- 17.01: How U.S. Urban Unrest in the 1960s Can Help Make Sense of Ferguson Missouri and Other Recent Protests