Crack and Criminal Justice in Canton, Ohio, 1987–1999: “The Drug Problem has Created a Monster”

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-182
Author(s):  
WILL COOLEY
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Crack Cocaine ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Drug Problem ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
The City

AbstractThe rise of crack cocaine in the late 1980s propelled the war on drugs. The experience of Canton, Ohio, shows how the response to crack solidified mass incarceration. A declining industrial city of 84,000 people in northeast Ohio with deep-seated racial divides, it was overwhelmed by aggressive, enterprising crack dealers from outside the city. In response, politicians and residents united behind the strategy of incessant arrests and drastic prison sentences. The law-enforcement offensive worsened conditions while pursuing African Americans at blatantly disproportionate rates, but few people engaged in reframing the drug problem. Instead, a punitive citizenry positioned punishment as the principal remedy. The emergency foreclosed on more comprehensive assessments of the city’s tribulations, while the criminal justice system emerged as the paramount institution.

Drugs and Justice: The Impact of Drugs on Criminal Justice in a Metropolitan Community

1993 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Klofas
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Local Level ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Case Processing ◽  
York Metropolitan Area ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

This study examines the impact of drugs on the criminal justice system of the greater Rochester (New York) metropolitan area. Although discussed widely, there has been little investigation of the effects of the “war on drugs” at the local level. This research considers patterns of arrest and case processing and includes an examination of drug treatment. Increases in arrests, particularly for possession of drugs, have occurred in the city but not the suburbs and have had a disproportionate effect on African-Americans. Many cases are processed as misdemeanors and result in minor sanctions. The implications for traditional order maintenance concerns in a metropolitan community are discussed.

“Let Me Be Bill-free”: Consumer Debt in the Shadow of Incarceration

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 978-1001
Author(s):  
Annie Harper ◽  
Tommaso Bardelli ◽  
Stacey Barrenger
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
New Haven ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
The City

Low-income U.S. households are increasingly burdened by unaffordable debt, with profound long-term economic and health consequences. Households of color are disproportionately negatively affected. This article examines the nexus of this rising indebtedness and mass incarceration through the experiences of a particularly marginalized group, people with mental illness. Drawing on qualitative research with 31 individuals with mental illness and recent incarceration in the city of New Haven, Connecticut, we show how carceral institutions and predatory financial practices intersect to create complex entanglements for poor and vulnerable people. While a growing body of scholarship focuses on criminal justice fines and fees, we highlight other types of debt that add to the overall burden, describing how incarceration deepens people’s existing debts of poverty and adds new debts from in-prison costs and identity theft. After release, those debts complicate the search for housing, employment, and financial stability, leading to further debt, stressing social relationships and reproducing social and economic inequality. The experiences of people with mental illness illuminates structures of marginalization and disadvantage that affect many others involved with the criminal justice system.

The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost

2018 ◽  
pp. 217-238
Author(s):  
Max Felker-Kantor
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Broken Windows ◽  
Municipal Governance

Punitive conditions ultimately contributed to the eruption of the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. The uprising occurred within the distinctly punitive context of the war on drugs and gangs. Solutions to urban social problems, this chapter shows, had become so entangled with the city’s and LAPD’s various wars on crime that the responses to the uprising depended on partnership with law enforcement and criminal justice programs, leaving police power intact. As this chapter shows, the post-1992 reforms, such as Project Weed and Seed, expanded the criminal justice system into new areas of municipal governance through the adoption of community and broken windows policing, which focused police enforcement on low-level and quality of life offenses to maintain urban order.

Racial Justice and Criminal Justice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Valls
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Racial Bias ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Black Neighborhoods

The criminal justice system in the United States both reflects racial inequality in the broader society and contributes to it. The overrepresentation of African Americans among those in prison is a result of both the conditions in poor black neighborhoods and racial bias in the criminal justice system. The American system of criminal justice today is excessively punitive, when compared to previous periods and to other countries, and its harsh treatment disproportionately harms African Americans. In addition, those released from prison face a number of obstacles to housing, employment, and other prerequisites of decent life, and the concentration of prisoners and ex-prisoners in black communities does much to perpetuate racial inequality.

A Police-Social Work Team Model

1974 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey Treger ◽  
Doug Thomson ◽  
Gordon Sloan Jaeck
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Work Team ◽  
Service Model ◽  
Cooperative Relationships ◽  
Effective Service ◽  
Team Model

Police and social workers have together developed an effective service model that alleviates overloading in the criminal justice system, develops new cooperative relationships within the system and social welfare, and expands the roles of law enforcement, prosecution, and correction.

scholarly journals The Relevance of the Social Control Theory in Explaining Crime among African American Families

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ayodeji Daramola ◽  
Gbolahan S Osho
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Control Theory ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Justice System ◽  
African American Families ◽  
Social Control Theory ◽  
The Church

Today, criminologists, especially, Black criminologists, are thoroughly perplexed by the same problem of disproportionate minority confinement (DMC) most especially of Blacks in both the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Are African Americans more criminally minded than other races or ethnic groups? Do African Americans actually commit more crimes than others? These are the questions that the different deviant theories have tried to answer. The concept of social bonding arose from social control theory, which suggests that attachment to family and school, commitment to conventional pathways of achievements and beliefs in the legitimacy of social order are primary and important elements of establishing a social bond (Hirschi, 1969). In expounding his social control theory, Hirschi listed the elements of the bond as attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief. Does it mean that African Americans commit more crimes than other racial and ethnic groups? Or are African Americans genetically wired to be criminogenic? Is the society or the environment to blame for the perceived higher rate of crime among African Americans? Or are the criminal justice system, the judicial system, and the juvenile justice system, all together racially biased against Blacks, especially, Black males? Even though Hirschi (1969) did not mention attachment to religious beliefs as part of social control, but for the African American families, the church could play a significant role in helping to cement the bond of adolescents to their families. Any study of the African American family is not complete without the church. According to Work (1900), in all social study of the Negro, the church must be considered, for it is one of the greatest factors in his social life.

scholarly journals ANAK NAKAL: DIVERSI DAN DILEMA PENERAPANNYA

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 418
Author(s):  
Eva Achjani Zulfa
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Criminal Case ◽  
Judicial Process ◽  
Law Enforcement Officials ◽  
Discourse Management

AbstrakHandling problems through brat children and children who have problems with the law have occurred again when some kids sticking a gamble being arrested at near Soekarno Hatta Airport areas then processed into the judicial process. Diversion is a form of change the process by which a program can only take place on hold pre-adjudication in the criminal justice system. Forms of transfer or diversion of this case are indeed associated with the authority possessed discretion of law enforcement officers. Giddiness has appeared in the process of implementation of diversion by law enforcement officials, the search for forms of application of the criminal case handlingchild has become a growing discourse management. Policy taken toward the institution of criminal diversion not only becomes demand for law enforcement officers, but also must be institutionalized through plain legal mechanisms. It becomes author's concern to create more certain procedures to brighten solve on deviant children in this way

scholarly journals SURAT PERINTAH PENGHENTIAN PENYIDIKAN (SP3) DALAM PEMBERANTASAN TINDAK PIDANA KORUPSI

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Dewa Gede Dana Sugama
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Corruption Case ◽  
Prudence Principle ◽  
Independent Institutions

This study discusses about Inadequacy Corruption Eradication Commission In Issuing Warrant Termination of Investigation In Corruption Case. The Commission is authorized to issue a warrant termination of the investigation and to determine the actions taken when the Commission which investigated corruption Commission was not enough evidence. The conclusion of this study is, first Corruption Eradication Commission is authorized to issue an Order for Termination of Investigation in accordance with Article 40 of Law No. 30 Year 2002 about Corruption Eradication Commission, consideration of the logic of juridical is that the Commission is not a core law enforcement within the criminal justice system and just as independent institutions that can be dismissed if there is no corruption in our country. The arrangement of Article 40 of Law No. 30 of 2002 is prudential or attitude of prudence principle for the Commission to work accurately, efficiently and professionally

scholarly journals CRIMINAL POLICY IN CHILDREN'S CONSTRUCTION EFFORTS AS A NARCOTIC CRIMINAL ACTION PERSON

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Frans Simangunsong
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
Special Provision

Cases of narcotics abuse are increasing. This is evidenced by the almost<br />daily press reports from newspapers and electronic media about smuggling, illegal<br />trade, arrests and detention related to the problem of narcotics abuse. The purpose of<br />narcotics abuse is a deviant or accidental use of narcotics. So the act violates the law and<br />is threatened with criminality. Criminal policy in an effort to control children as<br />perpetrators of narcotics crimes. Threats of imprisonment that can be imposed on<br />children no later than 1/2 (one half) from the maximum threat of imprisonment for<br />adults. This means that the criminal threat for children who become narcotics couriers is<br />half of the criminal threats contained in the Narcotics Law. For children who become<br />couriers or narcotics brokers, they must be based on the mechanism stipulated in the<br />Child Protection Act and the Juvenile Justice System Law. Law enforcement for<br />perpetrators who are still under age, there is a special provision called diversion, namely<br />the transfer of settlement of child cases from criminal justice processes to processes<br />outside of criminal justice

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