Out-of-Control Criminal Justice shows that our system of criminal justice is broken; it is out of control. The author writes that a research-based strategy is needed that builds on the insights of those who work within criminal justice or are affected by it. Such a strategy must entail continuous evaluation and improvement, so that what works can be expanded and what does not can be eliminated. Out-of-Control Criminal Justice identifies how systems problems plague our criminal justice systems. It then presents a comprehensive strategy for bringing these systems under control to reduce crime, to increase justice and accountability, and to do so at less cost.

The strategy can be used, too, to create greater responsiveness to victims and communities, effectiveness in reducing racial and ethnic disparities, and understanding of the causes and consequences of crime. After describing this new approach, the book identifies the tools needed to implement a systems solution to create a safer and more just society. Read more.Rating:(not yet rated). Find more information about:ISBN:5579OCLC Number:Description:1 online resource (326 pages)Contents:1. Introduction: out-of-control criminal justice; 2. Systems problems are not specific to crime and justice; 3.

What is a system?; 4. The criminal justice system; 5. The systems improvement solution for safety, justice, accountability, and efficiency; 6. Benefits of the systems improvement solution and pitfalls to avoid in implementing it; 7. Conclusion: criminal justice under control.Abstract.

Zbigniew Brzezinski OUT OF CONTROL: Signed Easton Press 1st Edition 1st Printing Hardcover Norwalk, Connecticut Easton Press 1993 Fine, Leather Bound. Book accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Full text of 'BETWEEN TWO AGESAmerica's Role in the Technetronic EraZbigniew BrzezinskiTHE VIKING PRESS / NEW YORKCopyright © 1 970 by Zbigniew.

'Criminal justice system' - no phrase is more often voiced and less often understood. In a remarkable scholarly achievement, Daniel P. Mears rectifies this knowledge gap, illuminating what makes our current system 'out-of-control' and offering theoretically informed and evidence-based ideas on how to fix it.

Comprehensive in scope and clearly written, this volume should sit on every criminologist's shelf and be assigned in any course that seeks to understand and improve criminal justice.' Cullen, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati 'No one writes more clearly or persuasively about the current state of the criminal justice system than Daniel P. Out-of-Control Criminal Justice is carefully grounded in a systems approach to the diagnosis of the problem and its solution. Every serious student of the criminal justice system, including practitioners and politicians, should pay careful attention to this work. Zeiss ikon ideal 111.

This book has the potential to be truly transformative.' Scott Decker, Foundation Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University 'Award-winning writer and criminologist Daniel P. Mears has done it again! In Out-of-Control Criminal Justice, he has given us a piercing, deliberative road-map for taking back our criminal justice system and delivering the crime reduction and justice - and, yes, cost savings - that American citizens expect and politicians and policymakers need to make good on.' Welsh, Professor of Criminology, Northeastern University, Massachusetts and editor of Experimental Criminology: Prospects for Advancing Science and Public Policy 'Critics are often quick to point out the failures of American criminal justice policy, including mass incarceration, mandatory sentencing, and tough-on-crime judges and prosecutors. Rarely do they direct us to viable solutions. This is where Dan Mears parts company with most.

In Out-of-Control Criminal Justice, Mears provides a framework for comprehensive, systemic, evidence-based policy change premised on a systems-focused view of criminal justice. Mears has provided the key missing piece for implementing true, comprehensive change in an extraordinarily complex criminal justice system.

The promise of this approach is enhanced public safety, accountability, and cost efficiency. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in fundamental change in the American criminal justice system, including policy analysts, policy makers, practitioners, researchers, criminal justice experts, academics, and students of criminal justice.' Kelly, University of Texas, Austin 'The book promises a clear outline for criminal justice reform, and it delivers. This book will be widely appreciated by audiences in sociology, criminology, public policy, and social work. Students of criminal justice and social policy will want to read the entire book.

It is impressive in its scope and brings much to bear on social inequality beyond criminal justice.' Simes, Contemporary Sociology 'It is Mears's emphatic call for more openness and cooperation among practitioners, researchers, and everyone else impacted by the criminal justice system that makes this book an invaluable resource for criminal justice reform and the SIS a viable approach to consider when addressing current system failures.' Doris Schartmueller, Rutgers 'Criminal justice system' - no phrase is more often voiced and less often understood. In a remarkable scholarly achievement, Daniel P. Mears rectifies this knowledge gap, illuminating what makes our current system 'out-of-control' and offering theoretically informed and evidence-based ideas on how to fix it. Comprehensive in scope and clearly written, this volume should sit on every criminologist's shelf and be assigned in any course that seeks to understand and improve criminal justice.'

Cullen, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati 'No one writes more clearly or persuasively about the current state of the criminal justice system than Daniel P. Out-of-Control Criminal Justice is carefully grounded in a systems approach to the diagnosis of the problem and its solution. Every serious student of the criminal justice system, including practitioners and politicians, should pay careful attention to this work. This book has the potential to be truly transformative.'

Scott Decker, Foundation Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University 'Award-winning writer and criminologist Daniel P. Mears has done it again! In Out-of-Control Criminal Justice, he has given us a piercing, deliberative road-map for taking back our criminal justice system and delivering the crime reduction and justice - and, yes, cost savings - that American citizens expect and politicians and policymakers need to make good on.' Welsh, Northeastern University, Massachusetts and editor of Experimental Criminology: Prospects for Advancing Science and Public Policy 'Critics are often quick to point out the failures of American criminal justice policy, including mass incarceration, mandatory sentencing, and tough-on-crime judges and prosecutors.

Rarely do they direct us to viable solutions. This is where Dan Mears parts company with most. In Out-of-Control Criminal Justice, Mears provides a framework for comprehensive, systemic, evidence-based policy change premised on a systems-focused view of criminal justice. Mears has provided the key missing piece for implementing true, comprehensive change in an extraordinarily complex criminal justice system. The promise of this approach is enhanced public safety, accountability, and cost efficiency. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in fundamental change in the American criminal justice system, including policy analysts, policy makers, practitioners, researchers, criminal justice experts, academics, and students of criminal justice.' Kelly, University of Texas, Austin 'The book promises a clear outline for criminal justice reform, and it delivers.

This book will be widely appreciated by audiences in sociology, criminology, public policy, and social work. Students of criminal justice and social policy will want to read the entire book. It is impressive in its scope and brings much to bear on social inequality beyond criminal justice.' Simes, Contemporary Sociology 'It is Mears's emphatic call for more openness and cooperation among practitioners, researchers, and everyone else impacted by the criminal justice system that makes this book an invaluable resource for criminal justice reform and the SIS a viable approach to consider when addressing current system failures.' Doris Schartmueller, Rutgers Read more.

'A Robert Stewart book.' Includes indexPt. The politics of organized insanity - 1. The century of megadeath - 2. The centrality of metamyth - 3.

Coercive utopia - Pt. Beyond political awakening - 1. The victory of small beliefs - 2. Permissive cornucopia - 3. Philosophical polarization - Pt. The peerless global power - 1. The paradox of global power - 2.

The dissonant message - 3. The faceless rivals - Pt. Dilemmas of global disorder - 1. The geopolitical vacuum - 2. The vengeful phoenix - 3. The giant of global inequality - Pt.

The illusion of controlRarely has there been a book as explosive and challenging as this brilliant analysis of today's massive geopolitical disorder. The triumphant collapse of communism has brought neither economic stability nor social democracy to the former Soviet Union. Nor, for that matter, to the rest of the world. We are living in a time of fragmentation: increasing disunity in Europe, dangerous eruptions in the Islamic republics, growing disparity between the world's rich and poor, and the evils of the 'permissive cornucopia' in America which, through overstimulation of material desires and sensual self-gratification, is leading to the collapse of Western moral and spiritual values. In short, we are living in a philosophical climate that is 'out of control.' It is Zbigniew Brzezinski's firm belief that we must draw both moral and political lessons from the 'megadeaths' of the twentieth century, a century in which at least 167 million people were slaughtered in the name of the 'politics of organized insanity,' or the 'metamyths' of such dictators as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, among others.

Unless we can practice selfrestraint derived from a moral commitment in the quest for global democratic 'interdependence,' we stand destined to risk again our very own survival.