Criminal (In)Justice (eBook)
416 Seiten
Sage Publications (Verlag)
978-1-5443-7770-4 (ISBN)
About the Author
Acknowledgments
To Professors Using This Book
Digital Resources
General Introduction
Why a “Critical” Introduction?
Themes of the Book
Trump
The Structure of This Book
A Comment About Terminology
SECTION I • CRIME
CHAPTER 1 • Defining, Classifying, and Measuring Crime
Defining Crime
Classifying Crime
Measuring Crime
Chapter Summary
Review/Discussion Questions
Key Terms
CHAPTER 2 • Criminal Law
The Rule of Law
The “Ingredients” (Elements) of Crime
Defenses
Chapter Summary
Review/Discussion Questions
Exercise: Actus Reus and Mens Reas
Key Terms
CHAPTER 3 • Criminology
Religious Approaches to Crime
Classical Criminology
Biological Criminology
Psychological Criminology
Sociological Criminology
Chapter Summary
Review/Discussion Questions
Key Terms
CHAPTER 4 • Crime and Inequality
Economic Inequality and Crime
Racial Inequality and Crime
Gender Inequality and Crime
Intersectionality
Green Criminology, Queer Criminology, and Postmodernism
Chapter Summary
Review/Discussion Questions
Key Terms
SECTION II • POLICING
The Police and American Government
Policing as a Verb Versus Police as a Noun
Active Versus Passive Policing
Formal Versus Informal Policing
Policing From a Critical Perspective
CHAPTER 5 • The History of Policing
The Rise of the London Metropolitan Police
Policing in America: The Early Years
The Era of Cronyism and Patronage
Professionalization
Federal Policing
Troubles of the 1960s and 1970s
The Drug War
Community Policing and Broken Windows
The Homeland Security Era
After Homeland Security?
Chapter Summary
Review/Discussion Questions
Key Terms
CHAPTER 6 • Modern Policing
The Organization of Policing
The Use of Force
The Constitution and the Police: The Fourth Amendment
Police Discretion
Civil Forfeiture
Chapter Summary
Review/Discussion Questions
Key Terms
CHAPTER 7 • Police Deviance
Police Deviance in Context
Overenthusiastic Policing
Corruption
The Causes of Police Deviance
Handling Police Deviance
Chapter Summary
Review/Discussion Questions
Key Terms
SECTION III • COURTS AND TRIALS
CHAPTER 8 • Courts
Adversarial Justice
Plea Bargains and the Courtroom Workgroup
Other Courtroom Staff
Chapter Summary
Review/Discussion Questions
Key Terms
CHAPTER 9 • Criminal Trials
Pretrial
The Trial
Presenting Evidence
Objections
Other Motions at Trial
Jury Instructions, Deliberation, and Verdict
Appeals and Appellate Courts
Appellate Court Systems
The Supreme Court
The Politics of Appellate Jurisprudence
Theories of Constitutional Interpretation
Chapter Summary
Review/Discussion Questions
Key Terms
SECTION IV • CORRECTIONS AND SPECIAL TOPICS
CHAPTER 10 • The History of Punishment
Premodern Forms of Punishment
The Rise of the Prison
Prison Labor and Indeterminate Sentencing
Rehabilitation
Mass Incarceration
The Prison-Industrial Complex
After Incarceration?
Chapter Summary
Review/Discussion Questions
Key Terms
CHAPTER 11 • Prison Life
Going to Prison
The Prison Population
Types of Prisons
Life in Prison, the Inmate Code
Women in Prison
Prisoner Rights
Chapter Summary
Review/Discussion Questions
Key Terms
CHAPTER 12 • Alternatives to Prison
The Collateral Effects of Incarceration
Community Corrections
Sex Offenders
Alternative Incarcerations
Restorative Justice
Chapter Summary
Review/Discussion Questions
Key Terms
CHAPTER 13 • The Death Penalty
The History of the Death Penalty
The Death Penalty and the Constitution
Other Developments in the Death Penalty
Chapter Summary
Review/Discussion Questions
Key Terms
CHAPTER 14 • Juvenile Justice
The History of Childhood Crime
Juvenile Justice
Juvenile Corrections
Special Cases
Chapter Summary
Review/Discussion Questions
Key Terms
Glossary
References
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.8.2019 |
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Verlagsort | Thousand Oaks |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Schlagworte | Capstone in Criminal Justice • CJ • Criminal (In)Justice: A Critical Introduction • criminal justice • criminal justice system • critical thinking • Fichtelberg • Introduction to Criminal Justice |
ISBN-10 | 1-5443-7770-3 / 1544377703 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5443-7770-4 / 9781544377704 |
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