Crime and justice in America : an introduction to criminal justice

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Title:

Author:

Pollock, Joycelyn M., 1956-

ISBN:

9781437735123

Personal Author:

Pollock, Joycelyn M., 1956-

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier ; Waltham, MA : Anderson Publishing, c2012.

Physical Description:

xiv, 436 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.

Contents:

Criminal justice as social control -- Crime in society -- Why do people commit crime? -- Police in America -- Police operations -- Policing and the legal process -- Law and society -- Courts in America -- Due process : arrest through sentencing -- Juvenile justice and corrections -- The function of corrections -- Pretrial diversion and probation -- Prisons and jail -- Parole and reentry -- Looking toward the future : criminal justice in the twenty-first century.

Subject Term:

Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.

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Summary

Crime and Justice in America offers a concise, affordable, and reader friendly full-color introduction to the criminal justice system. It explores the system in four sections: the criminal justice system as social control, law enforcement as social control, the law as social control, and corrections as social control. Widely respected author Joycelyn Pollock integrates issues that women and minority populations face in the criminal justice system throughout the text, as opposed to other texts that treat these issues separately. Each chapter includes a What You Need to Know summary and key terms section, review questions, Breaking News items, Web links, and exercises that help students apply the material to different jurisdictions.