Community Justice: An Emerging Field

by David R. Karp (Editor)

Overview

Community justice is a phenomenon of growing interest among academics, policy makers, and criminal justice practitioners. The term reflects the increasing collaboration between criminal justice agencies and communities in the joint pursuit of public safety and a less tangible, but no less significant, pursuit of justice for victims, offenders, and all community members affected by crime. In this book, several leading scholars examine the central concerns of this emerging field. Subjects discussed include the role of community organizations in crime prevention; the structural and cultural issues underlying the concentration of race, poverty, and crime; community policing; and community prosecution and sanctioning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742574441
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/25/1998
Series:	Rights & Responsibilities
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	396
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

David R. Karp is assistant professor of sociology at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. He was previously a research scientist at the George Washington University Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies. He has published most recently in Crime&Delinquency, The Responsive Community, and Human Relations and has recently completed with Todd Clear a report to the National Institute of Justice on community justice.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 The Community Justice Movement
Chapter 4 Community Action
Chapter 5 Community Organizations and Crime
Chapter 6 The Takoma Orange Hats: Fighting Crime and Building Community in Washington, D.C.
Chapter 7 Building Community Capacity to Prevent Violence Through Coalitions and Partnerships
Chapter 8 Race and Class
Chapter 9 Toward a Theory of Race
Chapter 10 Crime and the Racial Fears of White Americans
Chapter 11 Community Policing
Chapter 12 A Tale of Two Targets: Limitations of Community Anticrime Actions
Chapter 13 Angels in Marble: Problems in Stimulating Community Involvement in Community Policing
Chapter 14 Civil Liberties and Aggressive Enforcement: Balancing the Rights of Individuals and Society in the Drug War
Chapter 15 Disorder and the Court
Chapter 16 Community Prosecution and Sanctioning
Chapter 17 Community Prosecution: Portland's Experience
Chapter 18 The Community in Community Justice: Issues
Chapter 19 Conclusion
Chapter 20 Community Justice in a Communitarian Perspective
Chapter 21 Index

Editorial Reviews

Makes a significant contribution to the more broad-based communitarian enterprise.

Sociological Abstracts - D. Ryfe

Makes a significant contribution to the more broad-based communitarian enterprise.
— D. Ryfe

Sociological Abstracts