NCJ Number
184356
Date Published
2000
Length
744 pages
Annotation
This text provides a comprehensive look at the police, courts, and corrections by combining research and theory on the workings of the criminal justice system, examines the latest technological innovations, and includes information on careers in the criminal justice field.
Abstract
The text contains 18 chapters in 5 parts. The first part looks at the criminal justice system today, with emphasis on crime definition and crime types, the purpose and structure of the criminal justice system, the criminal justice process, crime and the media, measuring and explaining crime (uniform crime reporting, crime trends and patterns, and crime causes), and criminal law. The second part considers police roles and responsibilities, police discretion, policing organization and strategies, police investigations, police and the community, police and the rule of law (fourth amendment, stop and frisk, arrests, search and seizure, interrogation, and identification), and challenges to effective policing. The third part covers the courts, including State and Federal court systems, judges, pretrial procedures, prosecution, defense, probable cause, criminal trials, punishment, and sentencing. The fourth part examines corrections in terms of community corrections, probation, intermediate sanctions, prisons, jails, and re-entry into society. The fifth part explores special issues, such as juvenile justice, drug control, and race and gender diversity. Notes, tables, figures, and photographs