Justice Blind? : Ideals and Realities of American Criminal Justice
ISBN: 9780135147740 | 0135147743
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 2/7/2008
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For courses in Introduction to Criminal Justice and Issues in Criminal Justice. Unlike most other books in introduction to criminal justice, this book addresses both the ideals and the realities of American criminal justice agencies. Rather than just covering the traditional topics from the perspective of how things are supposed to be, this text compares these ideals with the realities of what is happening in the system today. With an emphasis on critical examination, it explores the criminal law, crime images and realities, the role that ideol... MORE
| The Criminal Justice System: Ideals and Realities | |
| What is the Criminal Justice System? Ideals | |
| The Role of Politics and Ideology in Criminal Justice: Realities | |
| The Law: Providing Equal Protection or Creating Bias? | |
| Crime: Images and Realities | |
| Crime: Which is Worse, Crime on the Streets or Crime in the Suites? | |
| The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling! Media Portrayals of Crime and ... MORE | |
| Components of Criminal Justice: Police, Courts, and Corrections | |
| Law Enforcement: To Serve and Protect? | |
| Right to Trial? Injustice in Pretrial and Trial Procedures | |
| Punishment: Does it Work and is it Fair? | |
| Incarceration: Lock Em Up and Forget About Em | |
| Bad Criminal Justice Policy and How to Fix this Mess | |
| The Ultimate Sanction: Death as Justice? | |
| The War on Drugs: Focusing on the Wrong Drugs? | |
| The War on Crime as a Threat to Equality: Innocent Bias Against the Poor, People of Color, and Women | |
| Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations for the Future | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Matthew B. Robinson is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice at Appalachian State University (ASU). He earned his Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Florida State University in 1997. Robinson teaches and does research in the areas of criminological theory, the war on drugs, capital punishment, and injustices of the criminal justice system. He has published more than 50 pieces of research, including 6 books: Justice Blind? Ideals and Realities of American Criminal Justice (Prentice-Hall, 2002, 2005), Why Crime? An Integrated Systems Theory of Antisocial Behavior (Prentice-Hall, 2004), Spatial Analysis of Crime: Theory and Practice (with Derek Paulsen, Allyn & Bacon, 2004), Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics (State University of New York Press, 2007), and Death Nation: The Experts Explain American Capital Punishment (Prentice-Hall, 2008). He also has served as Board Member and President of the Southern Criminal Justice Association (SCJA). Robinson was awarded the William C. Strickland Outstanding Young Scholar Award from Appalachian State University in 2002.
