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Table of Contents
From the Book - 9th ed.
Part 1. Crime in America -- 1. What is criminal justice? -- Brief history of crime in America -- Criminal justice and basic fairness -- Due process and individual rights -- The role of courts in defining rights -- Crime control through due process -- Evidence-based practice in criminal justice -- Multiculturalism and diversity in criminal justice -- 2. The crime picture -- Crime data and social policy -- Collection of crime data -- The UCR/NIBRS (National Incident-Based Reporting System) -- Race and criminal justice system, pt. I, Identity theft: an new kind of larceny -- Career : instructor of criminal justice -- Offenses -- National crime victimization survey (NCVS) Special categories of crime -- Crime against women -- Gender issues in criminal justice -- Crime against the elderly -- Hate crime -- Corporate and white-collar crime -- Organized crime -- Gun crime -- Drug crime -- High-technology and computer crime -- What is terrorist activity? -- Terrorism -- 3. Criminal law -- Nature and purpose of law -- The Rule of Law -- Types of law -- General categories of crime -- Should violent speech be free speech? -- General features of crime: the criminal act (Actus Reus), a guilty mind (Mens Rea), concurrence -- Elements of a specific criminal offense -- The example of murder -- The Corpus Delicti of a crime -- Types of defenses to a criminal charge -- Islamic Law -- Alibi -- Justifications -- Excuses -- Procedural defenses --
Part 2. Policing -- 4. Policing : purpose and organization -- The Police Mission -- Enforcing the law -- Apprehending offenders -- Preventing crime -- Preserving the peace -- Providing services -- American policing today: from the Federal to the local level -- Federal agencies -- State agencies -- Local agencies -- Fusion centers -- Police administration -- Police organization and structure -- Fusion centers : Chain of command -- Policing epochs and styles -- The Watchman style of policing -- The legalistic style of policing -- The service style of policing -- Police-community relations -- Team policing -- Community policing -- Evidence-based policing -- The Kansas City experiment -- Discretion and the individual officer -- 5. Policing : legal aspects -- The abuse of police power -- The Rodney King incident -- A changing legal climate -- Individual rights -- Checks and balances -- Due process requirements -- Search and seizure -- The Warren Court (1953-1969) -- The Burger Court (1969-1986) -- The Rehnquist Court (1986-2005) -- Plain-view requirements -- Career : Patrol officer -- Arrest -- Legal issues being raised in subway searches -- Searches incident to arrest -- Emergency searches of persons -- Vehicle searches -- Religion and public safety -- Suspicionless searches -- High-technology searches -- The intelligence function -- Informants -- Police interrogation -- The Right to a Lawyer at interrogation -- Suspect rights : the Miranda Decision -- The Miranda Warnings -- Gathering of special kinds of nontestimonial evidence -- Electronic eavesdropping -- The USA Patriot Act of 2001 and the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 -- 6. Policing : issues and challenges -- Police personality and culture -- Corruption and integrity -- Policing a multicultural society -- Money: the root of police evil? -- Building police integrity -- The Law Enforcement Oath of Honor -- Drug testing of police employees -- The dangers of police work -- Police DNA collection sparks questions -- Violence in the line of duty -- Risk of disease and infected evidence -- Stress and fatigue among police officers -- Career : Police officer -- Terrorism's impact on policing -- The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces -- Intelligence-led policing and antiterrorism -- Information sharing and antiterrorism -- Police civil liability -- Common sources of civil suits -- Federal lawsuits -- Racial profiling and biased policing -- Is the LAPD's Community Mapping Project a form of religious profiling? -- Racially biased policing -- Police use of force -- Deadly force -- Less-lethal weapons -- Professionalism and ethics -- The Law Enforcement Code of Ethics -- Education and training -- Recruitment and selection -- Ethnic and gender diversity in policing -- Investigating crime in a multicultural setting -- Women as effective police officers -- Private protective services -- Do sex-offender websites spur vigilantism? -- Integration of public and private security --
Part 3. Adjudication -- 7. The courts -- History and structure of the American Court System -- The State Court System -- The Federal Court System -- U.S. District Courts -- U.S. Courts of Appeal -- The U.S. Supreme Court -- Pretrial activities -- The first appearance -- The International Criminal Court -- Nonjudicial pretrial release decisions -- The Grand Jury -- The preliminary hearing -- Arraignment and the plea -- 8. The courtroom work group and the criminal trial -- The Judge -- The Prosecuting Attorney -- The Defense Counsel -- Career : Attorney and Instructor of Criminal Justice -- Public defenders reject new cases -- The American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct -- The Bailiff -- The Trial Court Administrator -- The Court Reporter -- The Clerk of the Court -- Expert witnesses -- Outsiders : nonprofessional courtroom participants -- Lay witnesses -- Jurors -- The victim -- The defendant -- Spectators and the Press -- The criminal trial -- Procedure -- Nature and purpose -- Stages in a criminal trial -- Trial initiation -- Jury selection -- Opening statements -- Presentation of evidence -- Pretrial and post-trial motions -- Closing arguments -- Judge's charge to the jury -- Jury deliberations and the verdict -- Social networking among jurors is trying judges' patience -- The bilingual courtroom -- 9. Sentencing -- The philosophy and goals of criminal sentencing -- Retribution -- Incapacitation -- Deterrence -- Rehabilitation -- Restoration -- Indeterminate sentencing -- Explanation of indeterminate sentencing -- Critiques of indeterminate sentencing -- Structured sentencing -- Aggravating and mitigating circumstances -- Federal sentencing guidelines -- The legal environment of structured sentencing -- Three-strike laws -- Mandatory sentencing -- Innovations in sentencing -- Alternative sentencing options -- Questions about alternative sanctions -- The presentence investigation -- Career: Instructor of Criminal Justice -- The victim: forgotten no longer -- Victims' rights -- Victims' rights in California -- To what degree should the personal values of workers in the Criminal Justice System influence job performance? -- Victim-impact statements -- Modern sentencing options -- Sentencing rationales -- Sentencing practices -- Fines -- Death: the ultimate sanction -- Habeas Corpus review -- Opposition to capital punishment -- Justifications for capital punishment -- The Courts and the death penalty -- To execute or not : a question of cost? -- The future of the death penalty -- What are the limits of genetic privacy? --
Part 4. Corrections
10. Probation, parole, and community corrections
What is probation?
The extent of probation
Probation conditions
Culturally skilled probation officers
The Federal Probation System
What is parole?
The extent of parole
Parole conditions
Federal parole
Probation and parole : the pluses and minuses
Advantages of probation and parole
Disadvantages of probation and parole
The legal environment
Should DNA links to unsolved cases be used to deny parole?
The job of probation and parole officers
Job descriptions
The challenges of the job
Career : Probation Officer
Intermediate sanctions
Split sentencing
Shock probation and shock parole
Shock incarceration
Mixed sentencing and community service
Intensive probation supervision
American Probation and Parole Association Code of Ethics
Home confinement and remote location monitoring
The future of probation and parole
More sex offenders tracked by satellite
Changes in reentry policies
The reinvention of probation
11. Prisons and jails
Prisons
The philosophy of imprisonment
Overcrowding
Security levels
California inmate release prompts public safety debate
Prison classification systems
The Federal prison system
Recent improvements
Jails
Women and jail
The growth of jails
Direct-supervision jails
Jails and the future
American Jail Association Code of Ethics for Jail Officers
Private prisons
Arguments for and against the privatization of prisons
12. Prison life
Research on prison life : total institutions
The male inmate's world
The evolution of prison subcultures
Prison argot: the language of confinement
The functions of prison subcultures
Prison lifestyles and inmate types
Homosexuality and sexual victimization in prison
The female inmate's world
Gender responsiveness
Institutions for women
Social structure in women's prisons
Types of female inmates
Violence in women's prisons
The staff world
Facts and figures
The professionalization of Corrections Officers
The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons
American Correctional Association Code of Ethics
Prison riots
Causes of riots
Prisoners' rights
The legal basis of Prisoners' Rights
Censoring prison communications
Grievance procedures
A return to the hands-off doctrine?
Should prison libraries limit access to potentially inflammatory literature?
Issues facing prisons today: AIDS
Geriatric offenders
Mentally ill and mentally deficient inmates
Terrorism
Feds target terrorist recruiting in prisons
The Juvenile Justice System
13. Juvenile Justice
Juvenile Justice through history
The Juvenile Court Era
The legal environment
Legislation concerning children and justice
The legal rights of juveniles
The Juvenile Justice process today
Adult and Juvenile Justice compared
Adult criminal case processing versus the Juvenile Justice System
The way the system works - Juvenile courts versus adult courts
The Post-Juvenile Court Era
Appendix A: Bill of Rights
Appendix B: List of acronyms
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ISBN
9780137069835
9780138482435
9780137145539
9780138482435
9780137145539
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