Product Description: A peacemaking approach to criminology is a humane, nonviolent, and scientific approach to the treatment of crime and the offender. This collection of twenty-two essays provides a comprehensive introduction to a peacemaking approach to criminology.

Product Description: Why do policymakers sometimes adopt policies that are not supported by evidence? How can scholars and practitioners encourage policymakers to listen to research? This book explores these questions, presenting a fascinating case study of a policy that did not work, yet spread rapidly to almost every state in the United States: the policy of correctional boot camps...read more

Describes the use of community service, house arrest, drug and sex offender treatment, boot camps, and other programs as methods of rehabilitating and punishing criminals, and discusses their effectiveness and whether they save money (view table of contents)