Smart on Crime: Recommendations for the Administration and Congress
Publication year:
2011
| Cataloged on:
Feb. 18, 2011
ANNOTATION: This publication “incorporates cost-effective, evidence-based solutions to address the worst problems in our [criminal justice] system” (p. ii). This report may be full of recommendations, but these provide a look at the current state of criminal justice in the United States. Sixteen chapters follow an executive summary and summary of recommendations: overcriminalization of conduct, overfederalization of criminal law, and exercise of enforcement discretion; asset forfeiture; federal investigations; federal grand juries; forensic science; innocence issues; indigent defense; juvenile justice; federal sentencing; improving the prison system; death penalty; fixing “Medellin”—ensuring consular access through compliance with international law; pardon power and executive clemency; reentry—ensuring successful reintegration after incarceration; victims issues and restorative justice; and system change.
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