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Key Features
- Each chapter has an outline, "what you need to know," photos, charts, jurisdictional exercises, web links, a "breaking news" box, and vocabulary words with definitions.
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About the Book
Joycelyn M. Pollock is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Texas State University -- San Marcos. Her areas of expertise include include ethics in criminal justice, criminal law, correctional law, women in policing, penology, and feminist criminology.
This text offers a concise, affordable and reader-friendly 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.
Designed with the student in mind, each chapter includes: "What You Need to Know," highlighting key points for the reader; brief chapter outlines; review questions; vocabulary lists; "Breaking News;" and exercises to help students customize the material for different jurisdictions.
NEW IN THIS EDITION
All statistiscs and data are revised to reflect the most up-to-date information.
A "breaking news" box has been added to each chapter.
More photographs further enhance and illustrate the text.
PEDAGOGY AND ANCILLARIES
Crime and Justice in America contains brief chapter outlines, "What You Need to Know" learning objectives for each chapter, vocabulary lists, "breaking news" boxes, jurisdictional exercises, and review questions.
Accompanied by the following ancillaries:
Individual Lesson Plans that delineate and connect chapter-based objectives to specific teaching resources, and also contain key terms, content synopses, directions to supplementary websites, and more open-ended critical thinking questions designed to spur class discussion
PowerPoint Lecture Slides, divided by chapter
An online test management package in Respondus LE (respondus.com) – a free Windows-based authoring tool that makes it easy to compose exams using unique test questions that have been created for each text.
Interactive Self-Assessment Question Banks
Online Case Studies that contain interactive scenario-based questions
Readership
Students in the criminal justice field
Quotes
"In this update of the 2008 text, Pollock (criminal justice, Texas State U.-San Marcos) emphasizes the law and due process as they relate to each subsystem of the criminal justice system as a means of social control. Chapters include updated statistics, a new ‘breaking news’ feature, state-specific examples, snapshots of certain types of crime, consideration of women and minorities in each, review questions, exercises, vocabulary definitions, and Internet references. Tips on writing a research paper are appended."--SciTech Book News
Content
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
10. Juvenile Justice and Corrections
SECTION IV: CORRECTIONS AS SOCIAL CONTROL
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
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