Crime and Justice in America offers a concise, affordable, and reader friendly full-color introduction to the criminal justice system. It explores the system in four sections: the criminal justice system as social control, law enforcement as social control, the law as social control, and corrections as social control. Widely respected author Joycelyn Pollock integrates issues that women and minority populations face in the criminal justice system throughout the text, as opposed to other texts that treat these issues separately. Each chapter includes a What You Need to Know summary and key terms section, review questions, Breaking News items, Web links, and exercises that help students apply the material to different jurisdictions.
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"In this update of the 2008 text, Pollock (criminal justice, Texas State U.-San Marcos) emphasizes the law and due process as they relate to each subsystem of the criminal justice system as a means of social control. Chapters include updated statistics, a new `breaking news' feature, state-specific examples, snapshots of certain types of crime, consideration of women and minorities in each, review questions, exercises, vocabulary definitions, and Internet references. Tips on writing a research paper are appended." --SciTech Book News
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Höhe: 191 mm
Breite: 235 mm
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978-1-138-16502-1 (9781138165021)
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Joycelyn M. Pollock (Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany; J.D., University of Houston) is Professor of Criminal Justice at Texas State University. She has published more than 25 books (including subsequent editions) in the areas of ethics, female criminality, corrections, and law. In 2011, she was appointed to the U.S. Office of Justice Programs Science Advisory Board.
SECTION I: THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AS SOCIAL CONTROL 1. Criminal Justice as Social Control 2. Crime in Society 3. Why Do People Commit Crime? SECTION II: LAW ENFORCEMENT AS SOCIAL CONTROL 4. Police in America 5. Police Operations 6. Policing and the Legal Process SECTION III: THE LAW AS SOCIAL CONTROL 7. Law and Society 8. Courts in America 9. Due Process: Arrest through Sentencing 10. Juvenile Justice and Corrections SECTION IV: CORRECTIONS AS SOCIAL CONTROL 11. The Function of Corrections 12. Pretrial Diversion and Probation 13. Prisons and Jails 14. Parole and Re-Entry 15. Looking Toward the Future: Criminal Justice in the 21st Century
