Criminal Justice Today Intro 21c - Hardcover

A textbook for a first college course, focusing on innovations and potentials in the field rather than its traditions and conventional practice. Covers crime in America, policing, adjudication, corrections, and special issues such as juvenile delinquency and drugs. Updated every two years since the

Includes queries into individual rights and public order, crime data and social policy, women and crime, behavioral conditioning, the nature of law, historical development of the police, search and seizure, sentencing, probation and parole, prison riots, prisoner's rights, juvenile justice, and more. Fifth Edition now covers such news-making individuals and events as JonBenet Ramsey; the 1997 North Hollywood, CA, shoot-out between police and bank robbers who were armed with fully automatic AK-47's; FBI crime lab criticisms; hate crimes; Princess Diana's untimely death. Includes over 20 new U.S. Supreme Court cases plus a series of thought-provoking boxes titled "Criminal Justice in the Twenty-First Century". Web watch sections at the end of each chapter guide readers to a dedicated web site.