Crime and Justice in America
An Introduction to Criminal Justice
- 3rd Edition - February 1, 2015
- Imprint: Anderson
- Author: Joycelyn M. Pollock
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 2 9 6 0 5 - 2
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Request a sales quoteCrime 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.
- Updated examples, exercises, and textboxes to keep material current
- Now includes discussion on victimology in the Crime and Society chapter
- Incorporates social media
Students in introductory criminal justice courses
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
- Edition: 3
- Published: February 1, 2015
- Imprint: Anderson
- No. of pages: 456
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9780323296052
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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