How did civic culture evolve? How does civic culture define both the crime problem and America's response in criminal justice? Civic culture came out of the English Civil War and the Enlightenment, and it defines the dilemmas that confront both the citizens of civic culture and the criminal justice system. This article examines the meaning of civic culture, and it specifies America's crime problem by describing three types of offenders and the problems that the courts, the police, and penal institutions confront as they attempt to deal with offenders in civil society. It suggests that offenders should be dealt with in terms of their offense and justice, and in terms of their needs as members of civil society.
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