Smart on Crime: The Struggle to Build a Better American Penal System - Softcover

Percival, Garrick L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367598752 ISBN 13: 9780367598754

Verlag: CRC Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

The most punitive era in American history reached its apex in the 1990s, but the trend has reversed in recent years. Smart on Crime: The Struggle to Build a Better American Penal System examines the factors causing this turnaround. It relates and echoes the increasing need and desire on the part of the American government to construct a penal system that is more rational and humane.

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Garrick Percival is an assistant professor of political science and director of the Institute for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement at San José State University. His work focuses on American politics, primarily the nexus between crime policy, racial politics, and inequality at the state and local levels of government. His work has appeared in State Politics and Policy Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and Policy Studies Journal, among other outlets. He teaches courses at San José State University in state and local government, public policy, and American politics. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from San Diego State University and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Riverside.

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• Verlag: CRC Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367598752
• ISBN 13: 9780367598754
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
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