Exploring Criminal Justice: The Essentials
- ISBN-10
- 1449615015
- ISBN-13
- 9781449615017
- Series
- Exploring Criminal Justice
- Category
- True Crime
- Pages
- 457
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Jones & Bartlett Publishers
- Authors
- Robert M. Regoli, John D. Hewitt, Marie-Helen Maras
Description
This thoroughly revised and updated Second Edition of best-selling, Exploring Criminal Justice: The Essentials, provides a clear and concise introduction to the American criminal justice system in an engaging and accessible format. It examines the people and processes that make up the system and how they interact. It also covers the historic context of the criminal justice system so that readers will understand how and why we developed the system that is in place today. This Second Edition provides contemporary data and updated case studies and references for all topics, and will help students understand the relationships between the police, the courts, and corrections. Criminal Justice: The Essentials, Second Edition will provide undergraduate students a framework for thinking about crime and justice, aid them in becoming familiar with the terminology of the criminal justice system, and ultimately help them understand how and why the American criminal justice system works as it does.
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