Making Sense of Criminal Justice : Policies and Practices
ISBN: 9780195332445 | 019533244X
Format: PaperbackPublisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS
Pub. Date: 3/15/2007
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As they learn about the criminal justice system, students often hear that "nothing works." Enter Making Sense of Criminal Justice--an innovative and insightful textbook that meets the needs of both criminal justice policy courses and undergraduate capstone courses (sometimes called "senior seminars"). Beginning with an outline of the crime control and due process models, G. Larry Mays and Rick Ruddell have organized the book around the three major components of the criminal justice system (police, courts, and corrections). This topical, issues-... MORE
| Criminal Justice Politics and Policy | |
| The Politics and Policy Dichotomy | |
| The Role of Politics in the Administration of Justice Sources of Law and Policy Politics and Legislative | |
| Processes and Functions Policymaking and Criminal Justice | |
| Crime Control Versus Due Process | |
| The Crime Control Model | |
| The Due Process Model The Practical Differences Between the Models | |
| The Search for a Guiding Philosophy of Policing English Roots of Policing Brief History of U.S. Policing Stages of Police | |
| Development Community Policing Where Are We Now and Where Do We Go From Here? | |
| Police and the Use of Force Police and Citizen | |
| Interactions Influences On the Use of Force High-Speed Pursuits | |
| As Deadly Force Less-Than-Lethal Force Police Officer Deaths and Citizen Deaths | |
| Remedies for Unauthorized Use of Force | |
| Gun Control Firearms Mortality Violent Crime | |
| Firearms Legislation Effectiveness of Gun Control Legislation | |
| Police Interventions to Reduce Illegal Gun Use | |
| Courts--Justice for All, or Just for Some? | |
| Sentencing Getting Tough Indeterminate to Determinate Sentencing Sentencing Guidelines Mandatory Minimum Sentences | |
| Three-Strikes Legislation Truth in Sentencing | |
| The Political Context of Imprisonment | |
| Race, Ethnicity, and Justice Decision Making in the Criminal Justice System | |
| Addressing the Race Issue | |
| Gender and Justice Women | |
| As Offenders in the Criminal Justice System Women | |
| As Crime Victims | |
| The Work World of Women in Criminal Justice | |
| Wrongful Convictions--Causes, Consequences, and Solutions | |
| Eyewitness Misidentification False Confessions Jailhouse Snitch Testimony Misleading | |
| Forensic Science Prosecutorial Misconduct Ineffective Assistance of Counsel | |
| The Challenges of Correcting Law-Violating Behavior | |
| What Are the Alternatives? | |
| Specialized Courts Drug Diversion Programs | |
| Intermediate Sanctions Community-Based | |
| Jail Programs Parole | |
| Build More Prisons? | |
| Imprisonment and Crime Control | |
| The Rising Cost of Corrections | |
| Indirect Costs of Incarceration Punishing | |
| More Effectively Cutting Correctly Privatization | |
| The Death Penalty Capital Punishment in America | |
| The Death Penalty Today Capital Punishment Policy | |
| The Future of the Death Penalty | |
| Juvenile Crime and Violence Juvenile Crime | |
| Trends Cycles of Juvenile Justice Models for Controlling Crime | |
| Living in a Post-9/11 World Federal Legislation Homeland Security Security Versus Liberty | |
| The Changing Legal Environment | |
| Making Sense of Criminal Justice--Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Understanding Criminal Justice Policy Research and Criminal Justice Policy Criminal Justice in the Twenty-First Century | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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