{"product_id":"the-community-justice-ideal-urban-policy-challenges-9780813367668","title":"The Community Justice Ideal (Urban Policy Challenges)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver the past quarter-century  U.S. politicians have responded to the publics fear of crime by devoting ever more resources to building and strengthening the criminal justice apparatus  which as a result has grown tremendously in size and cost. Policymakers have also taken steps to toughen procedures for dealing with suspects and criminals  and broaden legal definitions of what constitutes crime  which has led to the incarceration  under harsher-than-ever conditions  of a record-high percentage of the U.S. population. Yet public confidence in the criminal justice apparatus is  if anything  lower than ever before  and fear of crime continues to be high.In recent years  some activists  scholars  criminal-justice officials  and politicians have begun to call for a reexamination of \"get-tough\" crime policies. A more sensible approach to crime  they argue  would focus on \"community justice\"--that is  on building healthy communities in which criminality cannot take root  and on making citizens and criminal-justice into partners rather than adversaries. In this thought-provoking study  Todd Clear and David Karp provide both a broad theoretical analysis of this ideal  and a close examination of a range of attempts to put it into practice in communities throughout the country. They conclude that by making the criminal justice system and the public into partners rather than adversaries  community-justice strategies for dealing with crime are both more effective and more resource-efficient than the failed \"get-tough\" approach.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647012757557,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813367662","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813367668.jpg?v=1781685511","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-community-justice-ideal-urban-policy-challenges-9780813367668","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}