Rövid leírás:
Foundations of Criminal Justice asks important questions often ignored in the introdution to criminal justice course: Why is our justice system the way it is? How do we decide which actions are crimes? How is policy made? What is justice and is it achieved? Having tackled these concepts and understood the ideas and motivations underlying our justice system, students are better prepared to understand what the police, courts, and corrections do and why–and to think critically about the decisions they will face should they go on to work in the field.
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Hosszú leírás:
Rather than simply giving students an overview of the elements of the criminal justice system–police, courts, and corrections–Foundations of Criminal Justice delves into the interdisciplinary ideas underlying those elements. With a new chapter on „Issues of Inequaility in the Criminal Justice System,” this edition delves even deeper into the larger questions and themes that govern our criminal justice system: Why is our justice system the way it is? How do we decide which actions are crimes? How is policy made? What is justice and is it achieved?
The text features a robust pedagological apparatus to guide students in their learning: focusing and review questions appear throughout the text to focus student learning and solidify key concepts; chapter-ending Criminal Justice questions ask students to think critically and apply what they have learned to a real-life issue; and photo essays, which survey the broad range of issues in the chapters to come, open each Part.
This text is unlike any other introductory text. It focuses on the foundational principles, ideologies, and philosophies that students should be considering when discussing criminal justice issues. This text is excellent, and I have used it since the 1st edition came out. The text length and affordability, the focus on foundational ideologies such as idealism and pragmatism, and the brief and yet thorough foundation for police, courts and corrections in the last 3 chapters of the book are overall strengths.”
– Martha Earwood M.S.C.J, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Tartalomjegyzék:
Chapter 1 Introducing Crime and Criminal Justice
Chapter 2 Criminal Justice, Society, and Morality
Chapter 3 Criminal Justice, Legal Reasoning, and Legal Philosophy
Chapter 4 Theories of Deviance and Social Control
Chapter 5 Theories of Criminal Behavior
Chapter 6 Concepts of Justice
Chapter 7 Concepts of Justice Policy
Chapter 8 Issues of Inequality in the Criminal Justice System
Chapter 9 Concepts of Criminal Procedure
Chapter 10 Criminal Law
Chapter 11 Criminal Punishment
Chapter 12 Core Concepts of US Policing
Chapter 13 Core Concepts of US Court Systems
Chapter 14 Core Concepts of US Correctional Theory and Practice
