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Crime and Justice in America

An Introduction to Criminal Justice

  • 3rd Edition - February 1, 2015
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Joycelyn M. Pollock
  • Language: English

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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.

Key features

  • Updated examples, exercises, and textboxes to keep material current

  • Now includes discussion on victimology in the Crime and Society chapter

  • Incorporates social media

Readership

Students in introductory criminal justice courses

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

SECTION IV: CORRECTIONS AS SOCIAL CONTROL

10. Juvenile Justice and Corrections

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

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 1, 2015
  • Language: English

About the author

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Joycelyn M. Pollock

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. She has published more than 25 books (including subsequent editions) in the areas of ethics, female criminality, corrections, and law. In 2011, she was appointed to the U.S. Office of Justice Programs Science Advisory Board.
Affiliations and expertise
Texas State University – San Marcos