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Michael Gerard Santos (born January 15, 1964) is an advocate for criminal justice reform and an author of several books and courses. He teaches strategies that justice-impacted people can use to prepare for success after prison.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (2014) is a memoir by American attorney Bryan Stevenson that documents his career defending disadvantaged clients. The book, focusing on injustices in the United States judicial system, alternates chapters between documenting Stevenson's efforts to overturn the wrongful conviction of Walter McMillian and his work on other cases, including children ...
Criminal Justice Ethics; Schmalleger, Frank (1991). Finding Criminal Justice in the Library; Schmalleger, Frank (1994). Career Paths: A Guide to Jobs in Federal Law Enforcement; Schmalleger, Frank (1996). Trial of the Century: People of the State of California vs. Orenthal James Simpson; Schmalleger, Frank (1997). Crime and the Justice System ...
Barry Latzer (born 1945) is an American criminologist and emeritus professor of criminal justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. [1] He previously taught at the Graduate Center, CUNY . He also prosecuted and defended accused criminals while teaching both there and at John Jay. [ 2 ]
He is a former co-chair and chair of the Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice of the American Society of Criminology. Ross is an author, co-author, editor, and co-editor of numerous books. [2] He is also co-founder of the Convict Criminology approach in the field of Criminology/Criminal Justice. [3]
Victor Hassine (1956–2008) was a prisoner for over 20 years in the Pennsylvania state prison system who became a writer on crime and punishment. Born in Egypt and raised in Trenton, NJ, he was the author of Life without Parole: Living in Prison Today which includes stories of prison life, interviews with other prisoners and short essays about his personal views of the prison and criminal ...
In 1963, Justice Clark and his Committee presented a final report, which included several recommendations including one stating the need to create an entity to provide judicial education. The National Judicial College (originally operating under the name National College of State Trial Judges) opened its doors to judges in 1963 using money ...
The goal of restorative programs is to keep students in school and to stop the flow of students from schools to the criminal justice system. [84] Some challenges to the use of restorative justice in schools are lack of time and community support. It requires balancing the time needed for mediation with the other demands of education in one ...