TURKISH CRIMINAL-JUSTICE SYSTEM AND CRIME: PANEL DATA ANALYSIS

Crime, punishment, and the American criminal justice system.

When the law gets something wrong, it can do so in a way that adversely affects many lives, often profoundly. Specifically, to society’s great detriment, the corrections arm of the American criminal justice system appears to have the distribution and administration of punishment exactly backward. We typically sentence young men who have committed their first violent felony—that group of offende...

Watching the detectives: crime programming, fear of crime, and attitudes about the criminal justice system.

Research demonstrates a complex relationship between television viewing and fear of crime. Social critics assert that media depictions perpetuate the dominant cultural ideology about crime and criminal justice. This article examines whether program type differentially affects fear of crime and perceptions of the crime rate. Next, it tests whether such programming differentially affects viewers'...

Victorian Criminal Justice System

The criminal trial constitutes a drama performed by its leading actors (legal professionals) plus supporting actors (including spectators). How conscious and strategic are their performances? This article argues that conscious legal performativity is part of a sustained tradition of 'infotainment' with lasting implications for today's real-life courtroom dramas. The adoption of stereotypical co...

Schizophrenia: Causes, Crime, and Implications for Criminology and Criminal Justice

This paper is aimed at criminologists and criminal justicians seeking to understand their role in educating law enforcement and correctional personnel who must deal with the mentally ill. It is motivated by William Johnson’s (2011) recent call for rethinking the interface between mental illness, criminal justice, and academia, and his call for advocacy. We concur with his concerns, and insist t...

Families, Crime and Criminal Justice: Charting the Linkages