U.S. national debate topic, 2020-2021. Criminal justice reform / [compiled by Grey House Publishing].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grey House Publishing, Inc., compiler.

Series:

Reference shelf ; v. 92, no. 3.

The reference shelf / H.W. Wilson, a Division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; volume 92, number 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal justice, Administration of--United States--History--21st century.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Corrections--United States--History--21st century.

Corrections.

Prisons--United States--History--21st century.

Prisons.

Racial profiling in law enforcement--United States--History--21st century.

Racial profiling in law enforcement.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Technological innovations.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

US national debate topic, 2020-2021. Criminal justice reform

United States national debate topic, 2020-2021. Criminal justice reform

Criminal justice reform

Place of Publication:

Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

"Central points include sentencing issues--mandatory minimums, truth in sentencing laws, and racial disparities; policing reform, including the role of police vs. social workers and health care workers as well as police brutality; reducing overcriminalization, particularly of drug possession; the War on Drugs as a cause of mass incarceration; a focus on rehabilitation vs. punishment in prisons; and juvenile justice reform. Significant recent developments include the 2019 First Step Act, which allows thousands of federal inmates to earn early release from prison, makes the reforms enacted by the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 retroactive, and eases mandatory minimum requirements. Opponents of reform argue that measures such as these could result in violent criminals being released and recidivism." -- Publisher description.

Contents:

1. Race, human rights, and justice. Human rights and the law

The growing racial disparity in prison time / Weihua Li, The Marshall Project, December 3, 2019

Why support for the death penalty is much higher among white Americans / Kevin O'Neal Cokley, The Conversation, November 27, 2019

LAPD searches blacks and Latinos more often / Ben Poston and Cindy Chang, Los Angeles Times, October 8, 2019

Study that claims white police no more likely to shoot minorities draws fire / Juanita Bawagan, Science, August 15, 2019

The bad-apple myth of policing / Osagie K. Obasogie, The Atlantic, August 2, 2019

2. Prison and its alternatives. Rehabilitation and punishment

The case for abolishing prisons / German Lopez, Vox, June 19, 2017

How lessons in Scandinavian design could help prisons with rehabilitation / Yvonne Jewkes and Kate Gooch, The Conversation, January 4, 2019

White House touts prison reforms but throws cold water on sentencing bill / C. J. Ciaramella, Reason, March 1, 2018

3 months into new criminal justice law, success for some and snafus for others / Ayesha Rascoe, NPR, April 1, 2019

The case against solitary confinement / Stephanie Wykstra, Vox, April 17, 2019

3. Privatization and mass incarceration. The incarceration problem

What Democrats get wrong about prison reform / John Pfaff, Politico, August 14, 2019

Who profits from our prison system? / Michelle Chen, The Nation, August 9, 2018

Here's why abolishing private prisons isn't a silver bullet / Mia Armstrong, The Marshall Project, September 12, 2019

Everything you don't know about mass incarceration / Rafael A. Mangual, City Journal, Summer 2019

Michelle Alexander is wrong about mass incarceration / Barry Latzer, National Review, April 4, 2019

4. The scientific and technological dimensions. The technological edge

How robots, IoT and artificial intelligence are transforming the police / Bernard Marr, Forbes, September 19, 2017

How the police use facial recognition, and where it falls short / Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, The New York Times, June 12, 2020

How a hacker proved cops used a secret government phone tracker to find him / Cyrus Farivar, Politico, June 3, 2018

Ten years later: the lasting impact of the 2009 NAS Report / The Innocence Project, February 19, 2019

Bad evidence / Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith, The Intercept, May 5, 2019

Recent developments in the forensic sciences / Dr. Victor W. Weedn, United States Attorneys' Bulletin, January 2017

Forensic science isn't "reliable" or "unreliable"

it depends on the questions you're trying to answer / Claude Roux, The Conversation, September 10, 2019

Rep. Takano introduces the Justice in Forensic Algorithms Act to protect defendants' due process rights in the criminal justice system / U.S. House of Representatives, September 17, 2019

5. What the states are doing. The state of criminal justice

From marijuana to the death penalty, states led the way in 2019 / Daniel Nichanian, The Appeal, December 20, 2019

Voting rights restoration gives felons a voice in more states / Matt Vasilogambros, Pew/Stateline, January 3, 2020

California set to end private prisons and immigrant detention camps / Steve Gorman, Reuters, October 9, 2019

NYPD overhauls rules for DNA evidence in criminal cases / Ben Chapman, The Wall Street Journal, February 20, 2020

Chicago judge says his bail reforms were a success. But independent reviews show flaws and more crimes / Scott Shackford, Reason, February 20, 202

Big risks in discovery reform: N.Y.'s new law tips the balance way too far in favor of defendants / Seth Barron and Ralf Mangual, New York Daily News, June 3, 2019

New York police try to pin gang witness's death on criminal justice reforms / Scott Shackford, Reason, February 6, 2020

How a criminal justice reform became an enrichment scheme / Jessica Pishko, Politico, July 14, 2019

In California, criminal justice reform offers a lesson for the nation / Tim Arango, The New York Times, January 21, 2019.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781642656022

164265602X

OCLC:

1150929454