Good faith mistakes and the exclusionary rule

Frank Anechiarico and James B. Jacobs, The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 274 pp.     

Mental Disorder, Work Disability and the Law

R.J. Bonnie and J. Monahan, eds., Mental Disorder, Work Disability, and the Law (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997): 321 pp.     

Review essay / lifeboat law

A. W. Brian Simpson, Cannibalism and the Common Law Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984     

Review essay / The precinct confessional

Peter Brooks, Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000, x + 207 pp.     

Pursuing justice in a free society: Part one—power vs. liberty

John Kaplan, The Hardest Drug: Heroin and Public Policy Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983, xi + 247 pp.     

>The role of subjectivity in criminal justice classification and prediction methods

Leo Katz, Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987, vii + 343 pp.     

Overstepping police authority

Bernard Harcourt, Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, xiii + 278 pp.     

Review essay / mental illness and criminal justice

Norval Morris, Madness and the Criminal Law Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982, 235 pp.     

BOOK REVIEW

Abstract

MY BLOODY LIFE: THE MAKING OF A LATIN KING. Sanchez, Reymundo. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 2000. Reviewed by Zelma Henriques     

Rethinking the war against hate crimes: A New York city perspective

Francis Allen, The Borderland of Criminal Justice: Essays in Law and Criminology Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1964

Francis Allen, The Crimes of Politics: Political Dimensions of Criminal Justice Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974

Francis Allen, Law, Intellect, and Education Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1979

Francis Allen, The Decline of the Rehabilitative Ideal: Penal Policy and Social Purpose New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981     

Book Reviews

Book Reviews in this articles INEQUALITY, CRIME, AND PUBLIC POLICY. ByJohn Braithwaite. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979. Pp. 332. HARLOTS, WHORES, & HOOKERS. by Hilary Evans. New York: Taplinger, 1979, Pp. 225. $12.95. PRISONS IN TURMOIL. BY John Irwin. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980, Pp. 277. $6.95. BEATING A RAP? DEFENIDANTS FOUND INCOMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL. By Henry J. Steadman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Pp. 144. $13.00     

BOOK REVIEWS

CONTROLLING UNLA WFUL ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND CORPORATE MISCONDUCT. By Diane Vaughan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. PP. 174. Cloth.
THE MAKING OF AN INMATE: PRISON AS A WAY OF LIFE. By Ann Cordilia. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing, 1983. PP. 133. Cloth.
CRIMINAL VIOLENCE. Edited by Marvin E. Wolfgang and Neil A. Weiner. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publication, 1982. Pp. 350. Paper.
SOCIAL CONTROL: VIEWS FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. Edited by Jack P. Gibbs. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1982. Pp. 288. Paper.     

DESTINATION EFFECTS: RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY AND TRAJECTORIES OF ADOLESCENT VIOLENCE IN A STRATIFIED METROPOLIS*

Two landmark policy interventions to improve the lives of youth through neighborhood mobility—the Gautreaux program in Chicago and the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiments in five cities—have produced conflicting results and have created a puzzle with broad implications: Do residential moves between neighborhoods increase or decrease violence, or both? To address this question, we analyze data from a subsample of adolescents ages 9–12 years from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, a longitudinal study of children and their families that began in Chicago—the site of the original Gautreaux program and one of the MTO experiments. We propose a dynamic modeling strategy to separate the effects of residential moving across three waves of the study from dimensions of neighborhood change and metropolitan location. The results reveal countervailing effects of mobility on trajectories of violence; whereas neighborhood moves within Chicago lead to an increased risk of violence, moves outside the city reduce violent offending and exposure to violence. The gap in violence between movers within and outside Chicago is explained not only by the racial and economic composition of the destination neighborhoods but also by the quality of school contexts, adolescents' perceived control over their new environment, and fear. These findings highlight the need to simultaneously consider residential mobility, mechanisms of neighborhood change, and the wider geography of structural opportunity.     

BOOK REVIEW DEPARTMENT

Books Reviewed in this Article:
THE PRICE OF PERFECT JUSTICE, Macklin Fleming. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1974. Pp. 196.
PERSPECTIVES OF AMERICAN LAW, John Neil Story and Lynn M. Ward. St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co., 1974. Pp. 532.
BEFORE THE LAW: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LEGAL PROCESS, J. Bonsignore, E. Katsh, P. d'Errico, R. Pipkin, S. Arons. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. Pp. 388.
LAW FOR BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT, Gail McK. Beckman,Walter F. Berdal, and David G. Brainard. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975. Pp. 502.
REGULATING NEW DRUGS, Richard L. Landau, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago, Center for Policy Study, 1973. Pp.197.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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A Handbook for Cultural Trustees: A Guide to the Role, Responsibilities and Functions of Boards of Trustees of Cultural Organizations in Canada , Marion Paquet, with Rory Ralston and Donna Cardinal. Waterloo, Ont.: University of Waterloo Press, 1987. 75 pages, $22.95. Reviewed by Brann J. Wry.

Bureaucratizing the Muse: Public Funds and the Culture Worker , Steven C. Dubin. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987. 226 pages, index. Reviewed by George C. Koch and Joan Jeffri.     

BOOK REVIEW ESSAY

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MATERNAL JUSTICE: MIRIAM VAN WATERS AND THE FEMALE REFORM TRADITION, by Estelle B. Freedman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Reviewed by Dorothy Moses Schulz.

TORONTO'S GIRL PROBLEM: THE PERILS AND PLEASURES OF THE CITY, 1880-1930, by Carolyn Strange. Toronto, Can.: University of Toronto Press, 1995. Reviewed by Dorothy Moses Schulz.

THE “GIRL PROBLEM”: FEMALE SEXUAL DELINQUENCY IN NEW YORK, 1900-1930, by Ruth M. Alexander. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. Reviewed by Dorothy Moses Schulz.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article
G. RICHARD HILL (Chicago: American Bar Association, 1990)
KATHRYN A. KOHM, ed. (Island Press, 1991)     

BOOK REVIEW

Book Review in this Article
RICHARD A. POSNER (University of Chicago Press, 1990)
MELVIN I. UROFSKY (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991)     

Traditional Organized Crime in Chicago

For 78 years the Chicago Outfit or Mob has been the focus of the Chicago Crime Commission's1 efforts to combat organized crime. Indeed, the perception of organized crime in Chicago, as well as much of the city's reputation, stems from the notorious, and often inappropriately glamorized, activities of the Outfit from Al Capone in the 1930s through John DiFronzo in the 1990s. While the Outfit is most certainly still alive, much of the organized criminal activity presently targeting Chicago and its suburbs is perpetrated by new and emerging criminal enterprises. These groups range from local burglary rings to highly sophisticated international criminal organizations headquartered in Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and South America, involved in corporate kidnapping and extortion, murder-for-hire, high-tech crime and drug trafficking. All require public attention and relentless law enforcement scrutiny. This paper deals with traditional organized crime in Chicago. Emerging Organized Crime will be dealt with in a forthcoming paper.     

Crime prevention through environmental design: financial hardship, the dynamics of power, and the prospects of governance

Borrowing from Foucault (Governmentality. In G. Burchell, C. Gordon, & P. Miller (Eds.), Governmentality: The Foucault effect: Studies in governmentality (pp. 87–104). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991) and Foucault and Gordon (Power-knowledge: Selected interviews and other writings, 1972–1977. Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1980) and the work of governmentality scholars in general, this paper examines Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) as a strategic form of governance. Using qualitative data gathered from semi-structured interviews with CPTED practitioners and supporters, I argue that the putative availability of expendable capital mediates, although does not necessarily negate, a practitioner’s ability to secure the conduct of conduct through the sharing of CPTED expertise. The importance of shifting power dynamics are examined before evaluating the data vis-à-vis contemporary scholarship in the areas of governmentality and crime and criminal justice research.