Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice

by Joshua Page, Philip Goodman, Michelle Phelps

Book Overview

The history of criminal justice in the U.S. is often described as a pendulum, swinging back and forth between strict punishment and lenient rehabilitation. While this view is common wisdom, it is wrong. In Breaking the Pendulum, Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps systematically debunk the pendulum perspective, showing that it distorts how and why criminal justice changes. The pendulum model blinds us to the blending of penal orientations,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199976066
• ISBN13: 9780199976065
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"