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Private criminal justice : how private parties are enforcing criminal law and transforming our justice / Ric Simmons, The Ohio State University.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simmons, Ric, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Police, Private--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Police, Private.
- Dispute resolution (Law)--United States.
- Dispute resolution (Law).
- Alternatives to imprisonment--United States.
- Alternatives to imprisonment.
- Alternative convictions--United States.
- Alternative convictions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- The United States is in the midst of a significant re-evaluation of its criminal justice system, with increasing calls for reforming or defunding the police and efforts to curb mass incarceration. But focusing on the public criminal justice system paints an incomplete picture of how we address criminal activity. In Private Criminal Justice, Ric Simmons shows how significant amounts of criminal activity are detected by private police and how many disputes are settled, not in public courts, but through informal agreements between the victim and the accused or through adjudicative procedures run by private institutions. In this timely and eye-opening book, Simmons examines the vast, diverse, and under-appreciated private criminal justice system, suggesting reforms that can make these private responses more fair and revealing lessons the private criminal justice system can teach reformers of the public criminal justice system.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the rise of private criminal justice
- Criminal justice without the state
- A brief history of crime
- Public failings, private opportunities
- Private law enforcement
- Private criminal settlements as plea bargains
- Private criminal settlements as blackmail
- Private adjudications
- Private dispositions
- Regulating private criminal justice
- The verdict on private criminal justice.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Sep 2023).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781009347167
- 1009347160
- 9781009347181
- 1009347187
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