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Crisis in America's Criminal Courts: Improving Criminal Justice Outcomes by Transforming Decision-Making

Crisis in America's Criminal Courts: Improving Criminal Justice Outcomes by Transforming Decision-Making

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Series: Applied Criminology Across the Globe

CriminologyGeneral Law

ISBN10: 1538189380
ISBN13: 9781538189382
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Oct 21 2023
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Crisis in America's Criminal Courts highlights a variety of problems that judges, prosecutors, and public defenders face within a criminal justice system that is ineffective, unfair, and extraordinarily expensive. While many argue, and author, William R. Kelly, agrees, that crushing caseloads and court dockets certainly qualify as a crisis, Kelly suggests there is a much greater crisis in the courts that results in profound downstream effects on criminal justice performance and outcomes. It sounds simple, but the greatest risk faced by the justice system is the lack of time, expertise, and resources for effective decision-making. In this book, Kelly proposes a variety of evidence-based reforms that, as a start, provide the key decision-makers with professional clinical experts to accurately assess and advice regarding mitigating the circumstances that bring individuals into the courts.

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