NCJ Number
119338
Date Published
1990
Length
551 pages
Annotation
This introductory text uses a systems approach to explain the nature of American criminal justice, the components of the criminal justice system, and the stages and personnel involved in criminal justice processes.
Abstract
Individual chapters explore the justice process, methods of measuring and controlling crime, legal rights and responsibilities, the role of the police, and courts and their procedures. Additional chapters explain the goals and process of punishment, problems and issues involved in incarceration, the use of probation and parole, issues in community supervision, the discharge of offenders, recent developments in criminal justice, and the juvenile justice system. Charts, tables, chapter review questions, chapter reference lists, subject index, and name index.