Kathleen Auerhahn is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University.

Acknowledgments

Part I: The Criminal in Society: Penal Response and Rationale

1. Introduction

2. Criminal Punishment in Civil Society: Purpose and Method

3. Criminal Sentencing Reform and Paradigm Change in California

Part II: Incapacitation and Dangerousness

4. Selective Incapacitation

5. Dangerousness

6. Assessing the Level of Dangerousness in the Criminal Justice System

Part III: Evaluating the Past, Choosing the Future

7. Modeling the California Criminal Justice System, Part I: Reproducing and Evaluating the Past

8. Modeling the California Criminal Justice System, Part II: Predictive Evaluation

9. Conclusion: Choosing California's Future

Technical Appendix A: Data Sources and Estimation Procedures

Technical Appendix B: Example of Simulation Model Code

Notes

Bibliography

Subject Index

Author Index