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AbstractThe U.S. criminal justice system is designed to handle extreme cases of sexual misconduct, but the system has not adapted well to less extreme (but no less important) sexually inappropriate behaviors. As our understanding of sexual misconduct and impropriety evolves, the need for a new system of accountability seems apparent. The authors call for a new approach to providing justice for survivors/victims: the adoption of a truth and reconciliation model. This model involves providing a public forum for survivors/victims to testify to the events of their victimization and for offenders to admit previous wrongdoing, take responsibility, and ask forgiveness. While it is not appropriate for handling illegal behaviors, a truth and reconciliation model would be ideal for incidents that are not illegal but violate our evolving social norms.

"Justice and Legitimacy in Policing critically analyzes the state of American policing and evaluates proposed solutions to reform/transform the institution, such as implementing body-worn cameras, increasing diversity in police agencies, the problem of crimmigration, limiting qualified immunity, and the abolitionist movement. Considering the changes that have occurred in our socio-political climate, policymakers, scholars, and the public are in need of a book that focuses on the American policing institution in a comprehensive yet critical manner. Each chapter is devoted to a specific area of policing that has either received criticism for the problems it may create or has been proposed to effect reform. The chapters are sequenced such that readers are introduced to a spectrum of topics to expand the discourse on changes needed to achieve equitable policing. The book also encourages readers to consider the idea that achieving justice and legitimacy in policing cannot happen as the institution is now formulated, and it invites readers to use the topics discussed in each chapter to envision transformative propositions. Justice and Legitimacy in Policing is intended to engage policymakers and practitioners as well as interested members of the public. The scope of this book also makes it a valuable resource for academics and students"--

Studies bear out that African Americans are drastically underrepresented in criminology and criminal justice doctoral programs and that, once admitted, they have lower-than-average rates of completion. On average, throughout their careers, African Americans are less likely to secure positions in the most prestigious programs; publish in the most highly regarded journals; or receive tenure, promotion, and compensation commensurate with their European American colleagues. One explanation is that the academy espouses ideals that disadvantage those from a Black cultural background. Through auto-ethnographic narratives, this article explores the ways in which criminology and criminal justice have adopted and reinforced a professional culture that may be incongruent with that of most Black academics. Borrowing from the tenets of critical race theory, we examine the ways in which the field imposes criteria for success counter to the cultural orientation of many African Americans. Finally, we argue the need for field-wide self-assessment and proactive measures to increase receptiveness to, and inclusion of, scholars who bring broader methodological and cultural lenses to both the academic discipline and the practical administration of justice.

AbstractEvidence-based policing emphasizes the evaluation of interventions to create a catalogue of effective programs and practices. Program evaluation has primarily been considered the purview of academic researchers, with police agencies typically uninvolved in the evaluation of their own interventions. Scholars have recently advocated for police to take more ownership over program evaluation, often arguing for an increased role of three primary entities: embedded criminologists, police pracademics, and crime analysts. While an emerging body of literature has explored these entities individually, research has yet to explore the unique contributions each can make to police-led science. The current study is a survey of scholars who authored or co-authored one or more studies included in the evidence-based policing matrix. The authors explore four distinct research questions pertaining to police-led science. Findings suggest that embedded criminologists, police pracademics, and crime analysts may each have a unique role to play in promoting police-led science.

1. Introduction -- 2. That Time We Tried to Build the Perfect Prison: Learning from Episodes Across U.S. Prison History -- 3. Defining the Mechanisms of Design: An Interdisciplinary Approach -- 4. Custodial Design: Collective Methods -- 5. What works least worst? A personal account of two new prison design projects -- 6. The Creative Prison Revisited -- 7. Prison Design: Between Pragmatic Engagement and the Dream of Decarceration -- 8. Prison architecture in Chile: A Critical Realist analysis of prison architectural outputs through the lens of organised hypocrisy theory -- 9. The Architecture and Design of the Communist and Post-Communist Prison in Europe -- 10. Challenges and Solutions in Establishing the Impact of Custodial Design -- 11. Evaluating Correctional Environments: A Critical psychosociospatial Approach -- 12. Toward a Dignified Design: O-T-I, S-L-S, and Experience in Carceral Space -- 13. A model for the design of youth custodial facilities: Key characteristics to promote effective treatment -- 14. Designing a Rehabilitative Prison Environment -- 15. How Prison Spaces Work on Bodies: Prison Design in the Norwegian Youth Units -- 16. Does Design Matter? An environmental psychology study in youth detention -- 17. Prisoners with severe mental illnesses and everyday prison interior (re)design -- 18. Autoethnographic Analyses of Prison Design's Impacts -- 19. Culture Change within Facilities that Incarcerate -- 20. Gendered Inconsiderations of Carceral Space -- 21. A Cultural Competence Framework for Corrections in Hawai'i -- 22. From Grey to Green: Guidelines for Designing Health-Promoting Correctional Environments -- 23. Does nature contact in prison improve wellbeing? Greenspace, self-harm, violence and staff sickness absence in prisons in England and Wales -- 24. Designing green prisonscapes in Norway: Balancing considerations of safety and security, rehabilitation and humanity -- 25. Prioritizing accountability and reparations: Restorative justice design and infrastructure -- 26. Made in Prison – Understanding knowledge exchange, co-design and production of cell furniture with prisoners to reimagine prison industries for safety, wellbeing, and sustainability.

This handbook brings together expertise from a range of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts to address a key question facing prison policymakers, architects and designers what kind of carceral environments foster wellbeing, i.e. deliver a rehabilitative, therapeutic environment, or other positive outcomes? The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Design offers insights into the construction of custodial facilities, alongside consideration of the critical questions any policymaker should ask in commissioning the building of a site for human containment. Chapters present experience from Australia, Chile, Estonia, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States jurisdictions which vary widely in terms of the history and development of their prison systems, their punitive philosophies, and the nature of their public discourse about the role and purpose of imprisonment, to offer readers theories, frameworks, historical accounts, design approaches, methodological strategies, empirical research, and practical approaches. Dominique Moran is Professor of Carceral Geography in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. Yvonne Jewkes is Professor of Criminology at the University of Bath and Honorary Visiting Professor of Criminology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill is Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, USA. Victor St. John is Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Saint Louis University, USA.