Introduction to Criminal Justice
5th Edition
Published on 1. January 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
479 pages
978-0-07-001958-4 (ISBN)
Description
The fifth edition of this introductory Criminal Justice text. The contents have been pared down to five parts and sixteen chapters to best explain the intricacies of criminal justice policy and practice. The book has been thoroughly updated by Patrick Anderson to cover developments in policing, corrections, the war on drugs, and to include introductory cases on field practice, the criminal justice system in practice, the ideological framework of crime control, and discussions of criminological theory and crime punishment.
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Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 203 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-07-001958-4 (9780070019584)
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Introduction to Criminal Justice
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Content
Part 1 The system: the crime problem in the United States; ideological framework and models of crime control; explaining crime; the criminal justice decision network. Part 2 The police: policing in American society; police decisions; issues in modern policing. Part 3 The courts: jail, pretrial release, and defense lawyers; the prosecutor's decisions and plea bargaining; arraignment and trial; sentencing criminals and appeals. Part 3 Corrections: capital punishment; prisons and correctional institutions; release from prison and revocation; community corrections. Part 5 The juvenile justice system: juvenile crime and juvenile justice.