Public Opinion regarding Crime, Criminal Justice, and Related Topics

Criminal justice responses to drug related crime in Scotland.

This article examines contemporary developments in criminal justice responses to drug related crime. Drawing on evaluations of initiatives which have been introduced in Scotland along with published statistical data, it considers the expansion of drug treatment through the criminal justice system and the implications this has for increasing access to services. Importantly, it considers the pote...

At the Intersection of Public Health and Criminal Justice Research on Drugs and Crime

This paper discusses intersections of public health research and criminal justice research on the topic of drugs and crime. The drugs of interest mainly are marijuana, heroin, and other internationally regulated compounds of illegal origin, and such internationally regulated products of legal origin as pharmaceutical cocaine hydrochloride, codeine, and oxycodone, which also may be consumed on a...

Public (Mis)Understanding of Crime Policy: The Effects of Criminal Justice Experience and Media Reliance

Scholars attribute the public’s low level of knowledge about sentencing and corrections to its lack of extensive criminal justice experience and consequent reliance on the media for justice-related information. However, scant research exists that evaluates how criminal justice experience affects media consumption, or how such consumption may influence knowledge about sentencing laws or the exte...

Schizophrenia: Causes, Crime, and Implications for Criminology and Criminal Justice

This paper is aimed at criminologists and criminal justicians seeking to understand their role in educating law enforcement and correctional personnel who must deal with the mentally ill. It is motivated by William Johnson’s (2011) recent call for rethinking the interface between mental illness, criminal justice, and academia, and his call for advocacy. We concur with his concerns, and insist t...

Families, Crime and Criminal Justice: Charting the Linkages