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Criminal Justice (with Interactive Companion Website Access Card)

by: Albanese, Jay S.

Criminal Justice (with Interactive Companion Website Access Card)

by: Albanese, Jay S.

ISBN 13:
9780205337187
ISBN 10:
020533718X
Edition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 01/01/2002
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Criminal Justice, 2/e is written by an experienced author, scholar, and past president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Jay Albanese. It is carefully written in an appealing narrative style and is comprehensive without attempting to be encyclopedic. Albanese emphasizes critical thinking and problem solving in every chapter. Themes of this edition include: the role of balance in the criminal justice system, the role of social, cultural, political, economic, and historical contexts of crime, the law, and punishment, and the influence of mass media and popular culture on criminal justice. For anyone interested in learning more about criminal justice.

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xxv

Preface

xxvi

Perspectives on Criminal Justice

(24)

Perspectives on Crime

(10)

Media Perspectives on Crime

(1)

The Political Perspective on Crime

(3)

Crime and Other Life Events

(1)

Effects of Fear

(4)

The Universality of Crime

(1)

What Is Crime?

(4)

Historical and Political Contexts of Crime

(4)

Origins of the Criminal Justice System

(1)

Justice in the Colonial Period

(1)

The Evolution of Due Process

That's Fact: Perspectives on Fear of Crime

(4)

Media and Criminal Justice: Television Crime Dramas and the Causes of Homicide

(6)

Critical Thinking Exercises: Carjackings in the United States

(5)

Binge Drinking

(4)

The Nature and Causes of Crime

(34)

Defining Deviance

(1)

Thinking versus Acting

(1)

Mala in Se, Mala Prohibita, and Criminal Harm

(3)

Criminalization of Behavior

(3)

How Can Crime Be Explained?

(11)

Biological Determinism and Psychological Explanations

(2)

Sociological Explanations

(4)

Rational Choice Explanations

(1)

Gender-Based Explanations

(1)

Guns, Drugs, and Crime

(5)

Guns

(3)

Drugs and Alcohol

(2)

That's Fact: Perspectives on Gun Control

Media and Criminal Justice: The Bone Collector

(12)

Critical Thinking Exercises: Choosing What to Criminalize

(6)

A Case Study of Delinquency

(6)

Defining and Measuring Crime

(26)

What Are the Types of Crime?

(1)

How Are Violent Crimes and Property Crimes Classified?

(6)

Homicide

(1)

Sexual Assault

(1)

Assault

(1)

Robbery

(1)

Burglary

(1)

Larceny

(1)

Arson

(2)

How Are Crime Rates Determined?

(4)

The FBI Uniform Crime Reports

(3)

The National Crime Victimization Survey

(7)

What Offenders Say

(1)

The Future of Crime in the United States

That's Fact: Perspectives on the Crime Index

Media and Criminal Justice: America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back

(14)

Critical Thinking Exercises: The Circumstances of Crime

(4)

Identifying Serious Crimes

(3)

Perpetrators and Victims of Crime

(20)

Who Are the Victims and Perpetrators of Crime?

(10)

Age

(1)

Gender

(3)

Race and Ethnicity

(6)

Socioeconomic Status

(1)

What Is Crime Profiling?

(1)

Offender Profiles

(2)

Victim Profiles

(1)

Crime Scene Profiles

100

That's a Fact: Perspectives on Partner Violence

(6)

Media and Criminal Justice: American History X

(3)

Critical Thinking Exercises: The Characteristics of Homicide

101

(4)

Preventing School Shootings

102

(3)

Economic and Political Crime

105

(36)

What Is Meant By Economic and Political Crimes?

107

(1)

How Can White-Collar Crimes Be Defined?

108

(8)

Types of White-Collar Theft

109

(2)

Crimes against Public Administration

111

(1)

Corporate Crimes

112

(3)

Trends in White-Collar Crime

115

(1)

Why Is Computer Crime a Growing Threat?

116

(4)

Types of Computer Crimes

116

(1)

Consequences of Computer Crime

117

(3)

How Does Organized Crime Operate?

120

(10)

A Typology of Organized Crime

121

(2)

Organized Crime Offenders

123

(2)

National and International Aspects of Organized Crime

125

(5)

What Are the Impacts of Terrorism and Hate Crimes?

130

(2)

Terrorism and Hate Crime Trends

130

(1)

How Terrorism and Hate Crimes Merge

131

(1)

That's a Fact: Perspectives on Terrorism and Hate Crimes

132

Media and Criminal Justice: A Civil Action

114

(21)

Critical Thinking Exercises: Is the Internet an Avenue for Terrorists?

135

(6)

Should There Be Limits on Controlling Pollution?

135

(6)

Criminal Law

141

(32)

What Is Criminal Law?

143

(4)

Four Sources of American Criminal Law

144

(1)

Limits on Criminal Law

145

(2)

How Did the American System of Law and Justice Develop?

147

(5)

Evolution of Lawful Justice

148

(2)

Evolution of Due Process

150

(2)

How Does the Law Define the Elements of a Crime?

152

(4)

Characteristics of Criminal Acts

154

(2)

The State of Mind Requirement

156

(1)

What Defenses against Criminal Charges Does the Law Recognize?

156

(10)

Defenses Related to Mental Illness

157

(2)

Defenses Involving Force

159

(2)

Defenses Involving Justification or Excuse

161

(5)

What Are Some Concerns about Applying Criminal Law?

166

(1)

Controlling Animals or Owners?

166

(1)

Assisted Suicide or Murder?

167

That's Fact: Perspectives on Psychiatry and the Law

162

Media and Criminal Justice: Double Jeopardy

153

(15)

Critical Thinking Exercises: Justice on the Carolina Frontier (1764)

168

(5)

What Are the Crimes of the Century?

168

(5)

The Criminal Justice System

173

(24)

What Are the Agencies of Criminal Justice?

175

(4)

Law Enforcement

175

(1)

Courts

176

(1)

Corrections

177

(2)

What Is Procedural Law?

179

(3)

Law, Investigation, and Arrest

180

(1)

The Fourth Amendment and Probable Cause

180

(1)

Arrest

181

(1)

What Is Involved in Criminal Court Procedure?

182

(5)

Initial Appearance and Preliminary Hearing

182

(1)

Grand Jury, Indictment, Arraignment

183

(2)

Trial and Conviction

185

(1)

Sentencing and Appeals

186

(1)

What Are Some Concerns about the Criminal Justice System?

187

(3)

The Cost of Justice

188

(1)

Fairness in Adjudication

189

(1)

That's Fact: Perspectives on Fairness in Adjudication

190

(2)

Media and Criminal Justice: The Star Chamber

192

(1)

Critical Thinking Exercises: The Limits of Drug Testing

193

(4)

Addressing Violence in Entertainment

193

(4)

Criminal Procedure and the Police

197

(25)

What Is the Role of Police in Criminal Procedure?

199

(8)

Reasonable Suspicion and Stop and Frisk

199

(2)

The Exclusionary Rule

201

(1)

The Good Faith Exception

202

(2)

Searches without Warrants

204

(3)

The Fifth Amendment and the Miranda Warning

207

(6)

The Public Safety Exception

211

(1)

Interrogations and Confessions

212

(1)

Impacts of Procedural Law on Law Enforcement

213

(1)

That's Fact: Perspectives on Arrest

214

Media and Criminal Justice: Law & Order

210

(7)

Critical Thinking Exercises: The Limits of Stop and Frisk

217

(5)

Civil Suits against Police

218

(4)

Origins and Organization of Law Enforcement

222

(39)

How Did Policing Evolve?

224

(8)

The Watch and Ward System

224

(2)

The New Police Bobbies

226

(2)

Metropolitan Police in American Cities

228

(1)

Crime Commissions and the Professionalization of Policing

229

(2)

The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration

231

(1)

What Is the Organization of Law Enforcement?

232

(9)

Local Police

232

(4)

State Police

236

(1)

Federal Law Enforcement Agencies

237

(2)

Transnational Law Enforcement

239

(2)

Who Are the Police?

241

(8)

Training and Education

243

(4)

Issues of Gender and Race

247

(2)

What Are Some Concerns about Policing in the United States?

249

(1)

The Dilemma of Jurisdictions and Need for Cooperation

249

(1)

The Impacts of Technology and the Media on Police Work

250

(2)

The Movement toward Private Policing

252

That's Fact: Perspectives on Law Enforcement Employees

244

(2)

Media and Criminal Justice: Blue Steel

246

(8)

Critical Thinking Exercises: Campus Law Enforcement

254

(7)

The Cyclical Nature of Community Policing

255

(6)

Issues in Law Enforcement and Police Behavior

261

(38)

Is There Such a Thing as a Police Personality?

263

(7)

Myths and Stereotypes about Police

263

(2)

Three Styles of Policing

265

(1)

Current Research on Police Attitudes toward Their Jobs

266

(1)

Current Research on Police Attitudes toward the Public They Serve

267

(3)

How Should Police Performance Be Evaluated?

270

(8)

Police Discretion and Police Misconduct

271

(2)

Police Pursuits

273

(2)

Crime Response and Clearance Rates

275

(2)

Arrest and Conviction Rates

277

(1)

Community Service

277

(1)

What Are Some Forms of Police Corruption?

278

(7)

Explanations of Corruption

279

(5)

Preventing Corruption

284

(1)

What Is Legitimate Use of Deadly Force?

285

(1)

Victims of Violent Crime Control

285

(2)

``Fleeing Felon'' and ``Prowler Inside'' Laws

287

(2)

Police Brutality

289

That's Fact: Perspectives on Rating Police Performance

276

(7)

Media and Criminal Justice: Copland

283

(8)

Critical Thinking Exercises: Responding to Spouse Abuse

291

(8)

An Appropriate Remedy for Police Misconduct?

292

(7)

Origins and Organization of the Courts

299

(33)

How Were Criminal Courts Similar and Different in the Past?

301

(2)

How Did the State and Federal Court Systems Develop?

303

(5)

State Court Systems

304

(2)

The Federal Court System

306

(2)

Who Are the Participants in the Judicial Process?

308

(12)

Prosecutors

309

(2)

Defense Counsel and Defendants

311

(2)

Judges

313

(2)

Victims and Witnesses

315

(2)

Juries

317

(1)

The Courtroom Work Group

318

(2)

How Are Specialized and Alternative Courts Changing the Court System?

320

(2)

Felony Drug Courts

320

(1)

Dispute Resolution and Community Courts

321

(1)

That's a Fact: Perspectives on Felony Drug Courts

322

Media and Criminal Justice: The Color of Justice

319

(6)

Critical Thinking Exercises: Independent Counsel and Prosecutorial Misconduct

325

(7)

Limiting Criminal Appeals

327

(5)

Trial Defense and Prosecution

332

(30)

What Are the Rights of the Accused?

334

(7)

Right to Counsel

334

(3)

Right to Effective Counsel

337

(4)

How Are Cases Settled without Trial?

341

(4)

Prosecutorial Discretion

341

(1)

Diversion of Cases

342

(1)

Plea Bargaining

343

(2)

What Are Some Problems of the Court System?

345

(1)

Caseloads

347

(1)

Case Mortality

347

(6)

Adjudicate the Offender or the Act?

353

(1)

Crime Control or Due Process?

354

That's a Fact: Perspectives on Adjudication

346

Media and Criminal Justice: Primal Fear

340

(16)

Critical Thinking Exercises: Selective Prosecution of High-Rate Offenders

356

(6)

Should a Lawyer Defend a Guilty Person?

357

(5)

Trials and Sentencing

362

(40)

What Happens at Trial?

364

(5)

Jury Selection

365

(1)

Witness Testimony and Evidence

366

(1)

Defense Strategies

367

(1)

Arguments and Outcomes

368

(1)

How Do Judges Decide on a Sentence?

369

(5)

Retribution and Incapacitation

370

(1)

Deterrence and Rehabilitation

371

(1)

Probation, Restitution, and Incarceration

372

(1)

The Presentence Report

373

(1)

How Do Sentencing Options Differ?

374

(7)

Indeterminate Sentencing

374

(1)

Determinate Sentencing

375

(4)

Sentencing Guidelines

379

(2)

How Does the Eighth Amendment Restrict Sentencing?

381

(1)

What Is the Answer to the Death Penalty Debate?

382

(6)

The Legal Status of the Death Penalty

382

(4)

The Death Penalty

386

(1)

Arguments for and against Capital Punishment

387

(1)

That's a Fact: Perspectives on the Death Penalty

388

Media and Criminal Justice: Dead Man Walking

383

(11)

Critical Thinking Exercises: Victim's Race and Death Penalty Decisions

394

(8)

Is Life Imprisonment a More Severe Punishment Than the Death Penalty?

394

(8)

Origins and Organizations of Jails and Prisons

402

(37)

How Are Correctional Institutions in the United States Organized?

404

(7)

The Invention of the Prison

405

(1)

Levels of Custody

406

(1)

State and Federal Correctional Systems

407

(1)

Problems with Jails

408

(3)

How Do Correctional Institutions Operate?

411

(3)

Punishment

411

(1)

Custody and Deterrence

412

(1)

Rehabilitation and Reform

412

(1)

Models of Prison Administration

413

(1)

Who Is in Prison?

414

(6)

Correlates of Incarceration

414

(3)

Incarceration of Women

417

(2)

Prison Overcrowding

419

(1)

What Is Inmate Life Like?

420

(8)

Prison Work

420

(3)

Drug Use and Treatment Programs

423

(2)

AIDS in Prison

425

(1)

Prison Gangs

426

(1)

Violence in Prison

427

(1)

What Are Prisoners Rights and Responsibilities?

428

(1)

Constitutional Rights

428

(1)

Prison Rules

429

That's a Fact: Perspectives on Prison Inmates

416

(5)

Media and Criminal Justice: The Shawshank Redemption

421

(10)

Critical Thinking Exercises: Private Prisons and Liability

431

(8)

The Elderly Inmate

433

(6)

Probation and Community Corrections

439

(39)

What Are the Alternatives to Incarceration?

441

(9)

Fines as a Form of Criminal Sanction

442

(1)

Probation

443

(4)

Intensive Supervision

447

(1)

Confinement and Monitoring

448

(2)

How Can Ex-offenders Return to the Community after Prison?

450

(7)

Parole

450

(3)

Work/Study Release and Furloughs

453

(1)

Halfway Houses

454

(2)

Pardons and Commutations

456

(1)

What Are Forms of Authentic and Restorative Justice?

457

(1)

Restitution and Repair

458

(1)

Mediation

459

(1)

Shock Incarceration

460

(3)

Corporal Punishment and Public Humiliation

463

(3)

Forced Birth Control and Chemical Castration

466

(2)

Forfeitures and Fees

468

That's a Fact: Perspectives on Probation

446

(5)

Media and Criminal Justice: First Time Felon

451

(19)

Critical Thinking Exercises: The Return of Chain Gangs

470

(8)

Registering Former Sex Offenders

470

(8)

Justice and Punishment in the Twenty-First Century

478

(24)

What Are New Ways of Administering Justice and Punishment?

480

(4)

Technocorrections

480

(1)

Risk-Based Treatment

481

(1)

Early Life Interventions

482

(1)

Virtual Prison

483

(1)

How Can Offenders with Mental Health and Drug Problems Be Handled in the Criminal Justice System?

484

(6)

Mental Health of Offenders

484

(2)

Is There Effective Treatment for Sex Offenders?

486

(2)

Gender Issues

488

(1)

Balancing Just Punishment with Public Safety

489

(1)

What Is the Future of Corrections?

490

(1)

Offender Accountability

490

(1)

Professionalization of the Corrections Profession

491

(2)

Punishment and Control by Distance

493

(1)

Preparing Offenders for Release

493

(1)

Corrections as Prevention

494

That's a Fact: Perspectives on Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

487

(5)

Media and Criminal Justice: American Me

492

(4)

Critical Thinking Exercises: Illicit Drug Use in Movies and Music

496

(6)

Ecstasy: Crime Problem, Health Problem, or Recreation?

497

(5)

Juvenile Justice

502

(39)

Juvenile Justice Versus Criminal Justice

505

(1)

The Nature and Extent of Delinquency

506

(6)

Arrest Figures

506

(4)

Self-Reports

510

(2)

Victimization Surveys

512

(1)

Foundations of Juvenile Justice

512

(3)

Objections to Parens Patriae

513

(1)

Modifications of the Juvenile Justice System

514

(1)

The Law and Procedure of Juvenile Justice

515

(12)

Lawyers and Self-Incrimination

516

(3)

The Burden of Proof

519

(1)

Juries in Juvenile Court

520

(1)

Double Jeopardy

521

(1)

Preventive Detention

522

(2)

Searches and the Fourth Amendment

524

(2)

Punishment and the Eighth Amendment

526

(1)

Juveniles in the System: Police, Courts, Corrections

527

(6)

Police Disposition of Juveniles Taken into Custody

527

(1)

Juvenile Court Outcomes

528

(4)

Juvenile Dispositions

532

(1)

Trends in Legislation

533

(1)

The Outlook for Juvenile Justice

534

That's a Fact: Perspectives on Serious Juvenile Crime

530

Media and Criminal Justice: Scared Straight

525

(10)

Critical Thinking Exercises: Abolish the Age of Majority?

535

(6)

Juries for Juveniles?

536

(5)

Comparative Criminal Justice

541

(26)

The Risk of Crime around the World

543

(6)

Incidence of Major Crimes

544

(3)

Victimization

547

(2)

Why Study Comparative Criminal Justice?

549

(1)

Transnational Crimes

549

(4)

Hijacking

550

(1)

Trafficking in Humans

550

(1)

Corruption

551

(1)

War Crimes

552

(1)

Transnational Law Enforcement

553

(1)

International Justice

554

(2)

International Corrections

556

(4)

Legal, Ethical, and Practical Problems

560

That's a Fact: Perspectives on International Victimization

546

(13)

Media and Criminal Justice: Citizen X

559

(3)

Critical Thinking Exercises: War Crime Suspects Hiding in the United States?

562

(5)

Who Goes to Prison?: Comparing England and the United States

562

(5)

Appendix: The Constitution of the United States of America

567

(10)

Glossary

577

(8)

Name Index

585

(5)

Subject Index

590

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