The New Criminal Justice: American Communities and the Changing World of Crime Control

Criminal Justice in the United States is in the midst of momentous changes: an era of low crime rates not seen since the 1960s, and a variety of budget crunches also exerting profound impacts on the system. This is the first book available to chronicle these changes and suggest a new, emerging model to the Criminal Justice system, emphasizing:

• collaboration across agencies previously viewed as relatively autonomous
• a focus on location problems and local solutions rather than a widely sh...