Drugs and Crime

Crime and Justice #3

by Michael Tonry (Editor), Norval Morris (Editor)

Founded in 1979, Crime and Justice addresses important developments in the criminal justice system. This distinguished series of commissioned essays encompasses topics both within and outside of the accepted core of research on crime and justice, including legal, psychological, biological, sociological, historical, and ethical considerations. Individual essays in Volume 20 include articles by Michael Tonry and Mary Lynch on intermediate sanctions; Thomas J. Bernard and Jeffrey B. Snipes on theoretical integration in criminology; Antony Duff on recent work in the philosophy of punishment; Eugene Maguin and Rolf Loeber on academic performance and delinquency; Thomas M. Mieczkowski on the measurement of drug prevalence in the United States; and Ellen G. Cohn and David P. Farrington on Crime and Justice in the criminal justice and criminology literature.

574 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1982

About the author

Professor Michael Tonry is the McKnight Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and Policy, director of the Institute on Crime and Public Policy of the University of Minnesota, and a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute on Comparative and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany. Previously he was professor of law and public policy and director of the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University. Since 2001, he has been a visiting professor of law and criminology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and since 2003, a senior fellow in the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Free University Amsterdam. He has been a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and has held visiting posts at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg.

Professor Tonry is author or editor of a number of books including Between Prison and Probation (with Norval Morris; OUP 1991), Malign Neglect (OUP 1995), Sentencing Matters (OUP 1996), Thinking About Crime (OUP 2004), Punishment and Politics—Evidence and Emulation in the Making of English Penal Policy (Willan 2004), Punishing Race (OUP 2011), and, as editor, Prosecutors and Politics in Comparative Perspective (Chicago 2012) and Crime and Justice in America, 1975-2025 (Chicago 2013).

In earlier careers, Professor Tonry was a commercial lawyer with large law firms in Chicago and Philadelphia, practiced as a sole practitioner in Castine, Maine, and directed a private sector research firm. He founded and, from 1987 to 1990, directed the MacArthur Foundation-United States Department of Justice Program on Human Development and Criminal Behavior. From 1986 to 1990, he was editor and publisher of The Castine Patriot, a weekly small town newspaper; from 1990 to 1999, editor of Overcrowded Times—Solving the Prison Problem; and from 2000 to 2010, editor of Criminology in Europe. He founded and edits Crime and Justice - A Review of Research and three Oxford University Press book series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy, Oxford Handbooks on Criminology and Criminal Justice, and (with Antony Duff) Studies in Penal Theory and Philosophy.