Eric H. Monkkonen

This volume brings up the issues which cut across particular locales or topics. The theoretical issues move well beyond the confines of criminal justice or single time periods. The issues reach out to American culture and to that of western Europe. It confronts the problems inherent in a topic where one of the major components is hidden. The...

The history of the reform of the criminal justice system is easily seen as the history of failure; it helps in evaluating this long history if we think of it as the history of building the system, of forming it. And it tempers the harshness of our evaluations when we consider that the failures of the criminal justice system reflect out dim...