Today's Crime and Punishment Issues: Democrats and Republicans

This balanced book illuminates Republican and Democratic responses and attitudes toward crime, police work, sentencing, incarceration, and rehabilitation in the USA.

A broad array of law enforcement and criminal justice issues are examined, including mass incarceration, sentencing disparities, anti—drug efforts, marijuana legalization, death penalty, mandatory minimums, civil asset forfeiture, prison privatization, rape and other crimes in prison settings, women in prison, support for therap...