Criminal Justice in America Author:Marshall Croddy, Bill Hayes, Todd Clark Third edition. — The most comprehensive and interactive text available on criminal justice. — It consists of six units; — Crime covers victims' rights, gangs, violent crime, white-collar crime, elements of crimes, legal defenses, methods for measuring crime, hate crime, computer crime, and a history of crime in America. — Police explores local p... more »olice, attitudes towards police, community policing, criminal investigations, search and seizure, Miranda, the exclusionary rule, racial profiling, corruption, use of force, policing the police, and a history of law enforcement.
The Criminal Case examines courts, judges, and lawyers and explores a hypothetical criminal case from arrest through trial.
Corrections looks into sentencing, prisons, alternatives to prison, capital punishment, theories of punishment, the history of corrections, and debates such as those over mandatory-minimums and the high number persons behind bars.
Juvenile Justice explores the separate system for juveniles and examines delinquency, status offenses, steps in a juvenile case, rights of juveniles, juvenile corrections, waiver to adult court, the death penalty, how the system developed, and current controversies.
Solutions looks at debates over the causes of crime, racism in the justice system, crime in schools, vigilantism, policy options to reduce crime and to make the system fairer, and options for individual citizens.« less