| Preface | |
| Public Policy and Crime | p. 1 |
| The Public Policy Process in the United States | p. 5 |
| Public Policy and Criminology: An Historical and Philosophical Reassessment | p. 22 |
| Science, Public Policy, and The Career Paradigm | p. 35 |
| Crime, Justice, and the Social Environment | p. 51 |
| At The Roots of Violence: The Progressive Decline And The Dissolution of The Family | p. 68 |
| Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System: A Summary | p. 79 |
| The Intersection of Drug Use and Criminal Behavior: From the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse | p. 95 |
| Public Policy and Criminal Justice | p. 114 |
| Two Models of the Criminal Justice System: An Organizational Perspective | p. 119 |
| The Desirability of Goat Conflict Within the Criminal Justice System | p. 134 |
| Policing the Ghetto Underclass: The Politics of Law and Law Enforcement | p. 146 |
| Developing Police Policy: An Evaluation of the Control Principle | p. 167 |
| Who Ya Gonna Call? The Police as Problem-Busters | p. 180 |
| Transforming the Police | p. 196 |
| Priority Prosecution of High-Rate Dangerous Offenders | p. 220 |
| The Capacity of Courts as Policy-Making Forums | p. 232 |
| Court Clerks, Court Administrators, and Judges: Conflict in Managing the Courts | p. 249 |
| Sentencing Reform and Correctional Policy: Some Unanswered Questions | p. 257 |
| The Limits of Punishment as Social Policy | p. 272 |
| Adapting Conservative Correctional Policies to the Economic Realities of the 1990s | p. 287 |
| The Greatest Correctional Myth: Winning the War on Crime through Incarceration | p. 300 |
| Serious and Violent Juvenile Crime: A Comprehensive Strategy | p. 314 |
| Youth Gangs and Public Policy | p. 328 |
| A Policy Maker's Guide to Controlling Delinquency and Crime through Family Interventions | p. 340 |
| Emerging Trends and Issues in Juvenile Justice | p. 356 |
| Trends in Public Policy, Crime and Criminal Justice | p. 371 |
| Policy Relevance and the Future of Criminology | p. 373 |
| Crime Control as Human Rights Enforcement | p. 386 |
| Moving into the New Millenium: Toward a Feminist Vision of Justice | p. 397 |
| Confronting Crime: Looking Toward the Twenty-First Century | p. 411 |
| Beyond the Fear of Crime: Reconciliation as the Basis for Criminal Justice Policy | p. 427 |
| A Life of Crime: Criminology and Public Policy as Peacemaking | p. 437 |
| Epilogue | p. 442 |
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