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This book features unique graphics and contemporary data and research, developed by Joycelyn Pollock, criminologist, and University Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice, Texas State University.
In Criminal Justice in America, Pound recognizes the dangers law faces when it does not keep pace with societal change.
Presupposing no previous knowledge of the courts or how they operate, this comprehensive text examines the basic structure of the court system and court process, as well as all sides of today's most controversial issues.
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The Public Opinion Quarterly 61 (1): 16β53. Seligman, Clive, and Albert N. Katz. 1996. βThe Dynamics of Value Systems,β in The Psychology of Values, ed. C. Seligman, J. M. Olson, and M. P. Zanna. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum: 53β75.
This book offers a history of crime and the criminal justice system in America, written particularly for students of criminal justice and those interested in the history of crime and punishment.
New in the third edition is a historically updated chapter on the 1980s/1990s era of criminal justice history -- the Reagan era.
Finally, an alternative critical approach to introductory criminal justice! Criminal Justice in America: A Critical View paves the way for discussions on controversial issues of racial and economic inequities found...
This text offers a concise, affordable and reader-friendly introduction to the criminal justice system.
Criminal Justice in America