Criminal Justice -

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Résumé :
This cutting-edge anthology provides comprehensive coverage of the field of criminal justice. Each unit begins with a thorough introductory chapter, and brief introductions frame each chapter, putting the material into context for students. Thirty-six of these compelling essays are new to this edition and cover the following topics:

* Guns and homicide rates
* How genetics affect criminal behavior
* Wrongful convictions
* Community policing
* Citizen complaints and problem officers
* Challenges of transnational crime
* Drug courts
* Victim-offender mediation
* Community prosecution programs
* Difficulties in prosecuting domestic violence
* Spirituality in probation
* Preventing gang involvement
* Do juvenile boot camps really work?
* Parents and the control of juvenile delinquency
* Addressing female juvenile offenders
* The restorative model of justice
* Explaining changes in crime rates

The text also features helpful synopses of 100 leading justice-related and Supreme Court cases, as well as listings of professional organizations and information sources that focus on the field of criminal justice. Lively discussion questions follow each unit, and a subject index links topics directly to the chapters in which they appear. A completely revised, comprehensive Instructor's Manual/Testing Program is also available in electronic format....

Sommaire:

• * New to the Fourth Edition


• Unit I: Crime and Justice in America


• 1. Justice and the American Justice Network, Chris W. Eskridge


• *2. Explaining the American and Canadian Crime Drop in the 1990s, Mark Ouimet


• *3. Armed Americans: The Impact of Firearm Availability on National Homicide Rates, Anthony W. Hoskin


• *4. Black and White Differences in the Perception of Justice, Deane C. Wiley


• *5. Genetic Factors and Criminal Behavior, Jasmine A. Tehrani and Sarnoff A. Mednick


• *6. Estimating Wrongful Convictions, Tony G. Poveda


• *7. The United States Supreme Court and the Fourth Amendment Evolution From Warren to Post-Warren Perspectives, Jack E. Call


• Unit II: American Law Enforcement


• 8. Police Crackdowns, Lawrence Sherman


• *9. Community Policing: Is It Changing the Basic Functions of Policing? Findings From a Longitudinal Study of 200+ Municipal Police Agencies, Jihong Zhao, Nicholas P. Lovrich, and T. Hank Robinson


• *10. Police Culture, Individualism, and Community Policing: Evidence From Two Police Departments, Eugene A. Paoline, III, Stephanie M. Myers, and Robert E. Worden


• *11. Patrol Officers and Problem Solving: An Application of Expectancy Theory, Christina DeJong, Stephen D. Mastrofski, and Roger B. Parks


• *12. Citizen Complaints and Problem Officers: Examining Officer Behavior, William Terrill and John McCluskey


• 13. Police Use of Deadly Force: Research and Reform, James J. Fyfe


• *14. Transnational Crime: Implications for Local Law Enforcement, Kip Schlegel


• Unit III: American Courts


• *15. The Origins and Development of Courts, Richard E. Messick


• *16. The Drug Court as a Sentencing Model, Gene Kassebaum and Duane K. Okamoto


• *17. The Impact of Victim-Offender Mediation: Two Decades of Research, Mark S. Umbreit, Robert B. Coates, and Betty Vos


• *18. Prosecutors Discover the Community, Brian Forst


• 19. The Effects of Pretrial Publicity on Jurors, Norbert L. Kerr


• *20. Expectations of Privacy? Jurors' Views of Voir Dire Questions, Mary R. Rose


• *21. Victim Cooperation and the Prosecution of Domestic Violence in a Specialized Court, Myrna Dawson and Ronit Dinovitzer


• Unit IV: American Corrections


• *22. The Future of Probation: Reintroducing the Spiritual Dimension Into Correctional Practice, John T. Whitehead and Michael C. Braswell


• 23. Intermediate Sanctions in Sentencing Guidelines, Michael Tonry


• *24. Prison-Based Programming: What It Can Do and Why It Is Needed, Daniel P. Mears, Sarah Lawrence, Amy L. Solomon, and Michelle Waul


• *25. Denial of Parole: An Inmate Perspective, Mary West-Smith, Mark R. Pogrebin, and Eric D. Poole


• *26. Community Supervision, Prosocial Activities, and Recidivism, Doris Layton MacKenzie and Robert Brame


• 27. Race, Religion, and Support for the Death Penalty: A Research Note, Chester L. Britt


• *28. Beyond Correctional Quackery: Professionalism and the Possibility of Effective Treatment, Edward J. Latessa, Francis T. Cullen, and Paul Gendreau


• Unit V: American Juvenile Justice


• *29. Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders: The Relationship of D...