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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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“This is Part of my Final Grade”: A LatCrit Critique of Prison Tours as Pedagogical Tools in Criminal Justice Education

Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 2023
The proliferation of criminal justice programs brings new pedagogical challenges for educators who look for innovative ways to help students build lasting connections between theory, research, and practice.
Kay S. Varela
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Techno-Bureaucratic Race-Making: Latino (Mis)Representation in Criminology and Criminal Justice Knowledge Claims

Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 2022
We ask: (1) how are Latino-identifying and Latino-identified persons (mis)represented in criminal and immigration systems data? and (2) how do institutions of formal social control, through their measurement systems, contribute to skewed understandings ...
K. León, Andrea Gómez Cervantes
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Exploring the potential of ‘working-making-doing’ with people who have lived experience of the criminal justice system

Journal of Criminology, 2022
This book from well-established scholars of the criminal justice system contributes new insights to the developing field of ‘co-production’ with people who have lived experience of incarceration and criminalisation.
A. Hart
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Plotting against justice: Conspiracy theory endorsement and opposition to criminal justice reform

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy
Conspiracy theories about criminal justice reform are an unexplored domain with unique relationships to system justification and resistance to criminal justice reform. Across two studies, we developed and began to validate a measure of conspiracies about
Aaron L. Pomerantz, Marie A. Roweton
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Preferences for Criminal Justice Error Types: Theory and Evidence

The Journal of Legal Studies, 2019
What shapes individuals’ preferences for criminal justice error types, that is, the preferences for convicting the innocent versus letting the guilty go free?
Yehonatan Givati
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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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Individual freedom and the supremacy of law: Alan Brudner on criminal justice

University of Toronto Law Journal
:This article considers Alan Brudner's contribution to criminal law theory. Part I makes clear just how distinctive his Hegelian account of criminal law is from the two accounts that dominated the field over the past half century.
Malcolm Thorburn
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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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