Crime and Justice in America: An Introduction to Criminal Justice
Author:   Joycelyn Pollock
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Edition:   2nd New edition
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9781437735123


Pages:   442
Publication Date:   23 May 2011
Replaced By:   9780323290692
Format:   Paperback
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Crime and Justice in America: An Introduction to Criminal Justice


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Author:   Joycelyn Pollock
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Anderson Publishing
Edition:   2nd New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 23.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 19.10cm
Weight:   1.089kg
ISBN:  

9781437735123


ISBN 10:   1437735126
Pages:   442
Publication Date:   23 May 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9780323290692
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

SECTION I: THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AS SOCIAL CONTROL 1. Criminal Justice as Social Control 2. Crime in Society 3. Why Do People Commit Crime? SECTION II: LAW ENFORCEMENT AS SOCIAL CONTROL 4. Police in America 5. Police Operations 6. Policing and the Legal Process SECTION III: THE LAW AS SOCIAL CONTROL 7. Law and Society 8. Courts in America 9. Due Process: Arrest through Sentencing 10. Juvenile Justice and Corrections SECTION IV: CORRECTIONS AS SOCIAL CONTROL 11. The Function of Corrections 12. Pretrial Diversion and Probation 13. Prisons and Jails 14. Parole and Re-Entry 15. Looking Toward the Future: Criminal Justice in the 21st Century

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In this update of the 2008 text, Pollock (criminal justice, Texas State U.-San Marcos) emphasizes the law and due process as they relate to each subsystem of the criminal justice system as a means of social control. Chapters include updated statistics, a new 'breaking news' feature, state-specific examples, snapshots of certain types of crime, consideration of women and minorities in each, review questions, exercises, vocabulary definitions, and Internet references. Tips on writing a research paper are appended. --SciTech Book News


""In this update of the 2008 text, Pollock (criminal justice, Texas State U.-San Marcos) emphasizes the law and due process as they relate to each subsystem of the criminal justice system as a means of social control. Chapters include updated statistics, a new 'breaking news' feature, state-specific examples, snapshots of certain types of crime, consideration of women and minorities in each, review questions, exercises, vocabulary definitions, and Internet references. Tips on writing a research paper are appended.""--SciTech Book News


<p> In this update of the 2008 text, Pollock (criminal justice, Texas State U.-San Marcos) emphasizes the law and due process as they relate to each subsystem of the criminal justice system as a means of social control. Chapters include updated statistics, a new breaking news feature, state-specific examples, snapshots of certain types of crime, consideration of women and minorities in each, review questions, exercises, vocabulary definitions, and Internet references. Tips on writing a research paper are appended. --SciTech Book News


Author Information

Joycelyn M. Pollock (Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany; J.D., University of Houston) is Professor of Criminal Justice at Texas State University - San Marcos. She is the author of Ethics in Crime and Justice: Decisions and Dilemmas and Crime and Justice in America, in addition to numerous other publications. In 2011, she was appointed to the U.S. Office of Justice Programs Science Advisory Board.

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