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Annual Review of Law and Social Science

Volume 20, 2024

Neo-Institutional Analyses of Criminal Legal Organizations and Policies

Abstract

Since emerging in the late 1970s and early 1980s, neo-institutional theory has been a popular framework for understanding law, legal institutions, and policies on the books and in action. Neo-institutional theory has been particularly useful for explaining diverse criminal justice phenomena, from changes in penal law and policy statements to on-the-ground practices across police departments, courts, carceral facilities, and community corrections. This review describes how scholars of the criminal legal system have used neo-institutional theory and where there is room for further utilization. Additionally, it discusses how and why neo-institutional theory is particularly useful for sociolegal scholars, and not only those studying criminal legal organizations and policies.

Keyword(s): community corrections, courts, criminal legal system, neo-institutional theory, police departments, prisons
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