CRM/LAW C106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Gun Violence, United States House Committee On Oversight And Government Reform, Executive Order 13768

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C106
• Professor: Michael Gottfredson

Document Summary

Course topics: contemporary policies and issues in crime and criminal justice o, patterns and trends. What is crime like amounts, nature and characteristics. Public policies: focus on contemporary issues, prison, police, guns, prosecution, drugs, deterrence and prevention, always data driven and research oriented. What does it do: values and opinion are important we will bring data and evidence to bear, syllabus. Miscarriages of justice, innocence, policies that are designed around guilt. Using prisons to lower the crime rate is a justification for incarceration: they have a cause on crime. California using as the biggest reference to the class: as california goes, so does the nation on crime, big trends on crime. The criminal justice system is second only to education in terms of public expenditures: criminal justice has been increasing over time (we like it, number of employees have increased in criminal justice personnel.