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Beccaria's Political Theory of Criminal Justice

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
Beccaria's manifesto against cruel punishment and abuse of power spread through Europe like a wildfire and inspired radical reforms of repressive and coercive institutions throughout the continent. But what made Beccaria’s tract so popular with enlightenment rulers and thinkers?
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Toward a General Theory of Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice Review, 2008
Building on an extension of self-control theory to criminal justice, the current study explored Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory with data from a sample of 208 male parolees selected from the midwestern United States. Ordered logit regression models linked offender low self-control to an array of outcomes, including social interactions with ...
Matt DeLisi   +4 more
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A Theory of Criminal Justice

The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), 1981
George R. Gross, Jan Gorecki
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A Quantitative Theory of Criminal Justice

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1974
Some of the elements of the criminal justice system are expressed in mathematical terms. The function of the criminal justice system is postulated to be the minimization of all the losses to society resulting from crime. Losses considered include the direct and indirect loss due to a crime, the loss to the convicted criminal due to the punishment he ...
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Toward a Critical Theory of Criminal Justice

Crime & Delinquency, 1975
Criminal justice departments in higher education should take care that they critically evaluate today's justice agencies. What is suggested is the development, primarily in academic structures, of a subdiscipline, "critical theory," to stand midway between the lofty analysis of social ideals (social philosophy) and the exposure of the inefficiencies ...
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History of Criminal Justice Theory

Abstract When tracing criminal justice theory development, it is wise to review its background in criminological thought. While criminal justice, as a separate academic discipline, emerged in the United States during Johnson’s Great Society, crime researchers and theorists have long been interested in the workings of the criminal justice
Constance L. Chapple, Matthew S. Lofflin
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Review essay / A theory of criminal justice

Criminal Justice Ethics, 1982
Hyman Gross, A Theory of Criminal Justice New York: Oxford University Press, 1979, xviii + 521 pp.
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