Congress, Crime, and Budgetary Responsiveness

Marion, Nancy E.; Oliver, Willard M.

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“…One of the most influential factors in American politics, policy-making, and policy change is public opinion, along with the media and opinions of those elected to Congress by the public. Historically, public opinion has been shown to have a major impact on policy proposals and has guided the direction of governments (Alarid & Reichel, 2018; Marion & Oliver, 2006; Page & Shapiro, 1983). In addition, another major influencer on what the public believes is the media.…”

Section: Critical Assessmentmentioning

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Book Review: Out-of-Control Criminal Justice: The Systems Improvement Solution for More Safety, Justice, Accountability, and Efficiency

Miller¹,

Tsado²

2021

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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D r. Daniel P. Mears crafted a compelling argument in his book Out-of-control criminal justice: The systems improvement solution for more safety, justice, accountability, and efficiency (2017) for the necessity of making fundamental structural changes in the American criminal justice system by taking a systems improvement solution approach. Daniel Mears, the Mark Stafford Professor of Criminology at Florida State University and a fellow of the American Society of Criminology, won the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award in 2019 for this contribution to the field of criminal justice. He has written many articles, authored a book titled American criminal justice policy: An evaluation approach to increasing accountability and effectiveness (2010), and coauthored a book titled Prisoner reentry in the era of mass incarceration (2014). Mears has an extensive career in criminal justice research, making his book a worthy contribution to the field.Mears's (2017) main recommendation was adopting a systems approach to improve the criminal justice system, one that utilizes data, information, and empirical research to make criminal justice policy changes by examining the system as a whole. Other recommendations were that hierarchical evaluation is necessary to determine needs, theory, implementation, impact, and cost-efficiency; Mears inferred that these evaluations will help provide the foundations of a cost-efficient evidence-based system that addresses crime and justice policy. He reiterated that the systems approach, rather than a series of single policy evaluations, is vital for success, and emphasized a need for the research and policy-making processes to be linked. However, to ensure the effectiveness of these different types of evaluations, the systems analysis approach is critical because it allows all different parts of the system to work together cohesively. Content oveRviewIn his 304-page book, Mears laid out these arguments in seven chapters. The out-ofcontrol criminal justice system was described in Chapter 1, outlining the four goals of the criminal justice system as safety, justice, accountability, and efficiency. The book centered on the importance of these goals and how they can be used to improve America's criminal justice system by using a holistic rather than a piecemeal approach. Mears stated that the problem was the lack of empirical research at all levels of government, coupled with the fact that policymakers ignore research when making criminal justice policy decisions and 997528C JBXXX10.

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Section: Critical Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Book Review: Out-of-Control Criminal Justice: The Systems Improvement Solution for More Safety, Justice, Accountability, and Efficiency

Miller¹,

Tsado²

2021

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…Предложения, выдвигаемые выборными представителями власти, если они не приводят к реальным политическим мерам, носят название символической политики [18]. Она используется политиками (как президентами, так и конгрессменами) с различными целями, в первую очередь для разъяснения, успокоения публики, а также введения ее в заблуждение [19,20]. Символические действия и выступления разъясняют публике сущность проблем и предлагаемых решений.…”

Section: демонстрация контроля над преступностью и моральная обеспокоunclassified

“…Как отмечали Lempert и Silverstein, эти послания стали «упражнениями в ораторском искусстве с целью убедить, передаваемые президентом непосредственно народу через средства массовой информации, так сказать, через голову Конгресса» [44, p. 54]. Однако президенты могут передавать информацию и сообщать о своих предпочтениях в политике и другими способами, например, путем президентских заявлений [20], административных указов [45] или бюджетных требований [46][47][48][49]. Кроме того, они используют пресс-конференции и новостные сообщения [50].…”

Section: президентская риторика и меры контроля над преступностьюunclassified

Presidential rhetoric as crime control theater: the case of cybercrime

Marion¹,

Hill²

2018

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Цель: комплексный анализ президентской риторики демонстрации контроля над преступностью. Методы: диалектический подход к познанию социальных явлений, позволяющий проанализировать их в историческом развитии и функционировании в контексте совокупности объективных и субъективных факторов, который определил выбор следующих методов исследования: формально-логический, сравнительно-правовой и социологический. Результаты: темой публичных выступлений президентов все чаще становится уголовное правосудие. Многие их политические речи призваны создать впечатление борьбы с преступностью и насилием, тогда как реальные меры не принимаются. Более того, если какие-либо действия и предпринимаются, они неэффективны и не приводят ни к каким значительным изменениям в политике. Формирование впечатления, что президенты борются с преступностью, часто называют демонстрацией контроля над преступностью. Для нее характерно использование вымышленных нарративов, моральной обеспокоенности, низкого уровня разногласий в обществе, а также неэффективности политики в данной области. В более ранних исследованиях была неоднократно показана значимость демонстрации контроля над преступностью в различных аспектах уголовного правосудия, однако они никогда не касались современной проблемы киберпреступности. Научная новизна: в работе впервые проанализирована проблема президентской риторики демонстрации контроля над преступностью, изучены схемы и тенденции президентской риторики в отношении киберпреступности. Авторы применяют качественный контент-анализ для проверки гипотезы, которая заключается в том, что президенты используют методики демонстрации контроля над преступностью при обсуждении киберпреступности, в частности,

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“…Innocence reforms must traverse the same process as other public policies to come into effect, including problem identification, agenda setting, policy formulation, legitimation, budgeting, implementation, and revision (Marion & Oliver, 2012; Marion & Zalman, 2014). Policy analysis, typically conducted by political and policy scientists, is less common in legal, psychological, or wrongful conviction research.…”

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Beyond Police Compliance With Electronic Recording of Interrogation Legislation: Toward Error Reduction

Zalman

Rubino

Smith

2017

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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Video recording police interrogations is a widespread reform designed to reduce false confessions. An exploratory survey of Michigan police departments following the adoption of a video recording law indicates that the policy is uniformly followed. A significant number of agencies go beyond the law’s requirements by video recording in the investigation of all crimes and not only major felonies. Most recording captures both the interrogator and suspect. Prior to passage, half of the agencies supported the law and half were neutral. The law stimulated a quarter of the agencies to video record interrogations. A literature review and policy analysis suggests that video recording is a necessary but not a sufficient reform to reduce false confessions and wrongful convictions. Progress toward less confrontational investigative interviewing, used in several European countries and gaining a foothold in the United States, is recommended.

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Congress, Crime, and Budgetary Responsiveness

Cited by 10 publications

References 31 publications

Book Review: Out-of-Control Criminal Justice: The Systems Improvement Solution for More Safety, Justice, Accountability, and Efficiency

Book Review: Out-of-Control Criminal Justice: The Systems Improvement Solution for More Safety, Justice, Accountability, and Efficiency

Presidential rhetoric as crime control theater: the case of cybercrime

Beyond Police Compliance With Electronic Recording of Interrogation Legislation: Toward Error Reduction

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