Criminal Justice: Annotations
- Tyler, Tom R., ed. Legitimacy and criminal justice: An international perspective. Russell Sage Foundation, 2007.
This particular book was written by Tyle Tom to provide analysis on the most debated the legitimacy in criminal justice. The Author believes that achieving law-abiding and cooperating prisoners and citizens, particularly as described in the procedural justice approach needs character of legitimacy. Therefore, drawing from various philosophers, sociologists and political analysts, they argued that criminal case goes beyond the procedural framework, that legitimacy is necessary as it inter-link power-holder and audiences. Shared values and legality are two essential fundamentals based on audience creative reflections and legitimacy.
The book has demonstrated the necessity of legitimacy dialogic-based approach within the criminal environment. This particular book has answered important questions about legitimacy in criminal justice. Therefore, it has given hope to criminal justice, where there exist power imbalances so that they can conflate actual legality and dull compulsion.
However, the book does not offer a significant approach that coincides with police-based training and strategies to the changing diversified world. Though they do agree that police are an essential factor in criminal justice, but they do not something significant to policing strategies.
- Fagan, Jeffrey. “Legitimacy and criminal justice-introduction.” Ohio St. J. Crim. L.6 (2008): 123.
The journal provides Americans with little confidence in the fairness of criminal justices. It explains the crisis of public trust in American justice, especially among racial minorities. This popular persistent disquiet group are facing law with little confidence injustice. This step is what the new crisis in legitimacy in American criminal justice is facing. The journal will reinforce the idea of diagnostic legitimacy in criminal justice.