Gordon E Hawkins

The Citizen's Guide to Gun Control

Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime

Crime Is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America

Punishment and Democracy: 3 Strikes and You're Out in California

Punishment and Democracy: Three Strikes and You're Out in California

The Prison

Imprisonment in America: Choosing the Future

Imprisonment in America: Choosing the Future

Punishment and Democracy: Three Strikes and You're Out in California (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)

"Getting tough on crime" has been one of the favorite rallying cries of American politicians in the last two decades, and "getting tough" on repeat offenders has been particularly popular. "Three strikes and you're out" laws, which effectively impose a 25-years-to-life sentence at the moment of a th...

The De Cosmos Enigma

Literary Nonfiction. Biography. Canadian History. California Interest. This biography of Amor De Cosmos explores the life and career of this most eccentric of Canadian politicians, a man who played a crucial role in the creation of present-day Canada from sea to sea, and yet who, by the end of his l...

Capital Punishment and the American Agenda

The death penalty is not simply the most serious criminal punishment. It has been a singular social, legal, and moral problem in the Western world over the past two hundred years. Capital punishment is disappearing from every nation in the West except the United States. No political science of capit...

The Honest Politician's Guide to Crime Control (Phoenix Books)

Norval Morris and Gordon Hawkins's first premise is that our criminal justice system is a moral busybody, unwisely extended beyond its proper role of protecting persons and property. But they go further and systematically cover the amount, costs, causes, and victims of crime: the reduction of violen...

The Scale of Imprisonment (Studies in Crime and Justice)

Two of the nation's foremost criminal justice scholars present a comprehensive assessment of the factors behind the growth and subsequent overcrowding of American prisons. By critiquing the existing scholarship on prison scale from sociology and history to correctional forecasting and economics, the...

Imprisonment in America: Choosing the Future (Studies in Crime and Justice)

"For a few decades American prisons were the wonder of the world. [However] early hopes that a prison regime could be a powerful means of reforming most convicts have been abandoned, and prisons are seen even by some of those who think we need more of them as savage repositories, to be shunned or ve...

The Prison: Policy and Practice (Studies in Crime and Justice)

Despite lethal explosions of violence from within and critical assaults from without, it seems certain that prisons will continue to exist for the foreseeable future. Gordon Hawkins argues that certain key issues which attend the use of imprisonment as a penal method must be dealt with realistically...

Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)

The one, sure way that imprisonment prevents crime is by restraining offenders from committing crimes while they are locked up. Called "incapacitation" by experts in criminology, this effect has become the dominant justification for imprisonment in the United States, where well over a million person...