The Criminal Justice System: Politics and PoliciesWest/Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1998 - 506 páginas This text provides an in-depth look at policy issues related to policing, courts, and corrections. It gives students the opportunity to look at difficult issues related to important topics, through an interesting selection of readings. Flexible in its design, the book includes twenty-seven classic and contemporary articles that promote understanding of important issues in the field and encourage readers to think critically about the links between police, politics, law and the administration of justice. Students will explore everything from the crime policies that do or do not work to the latest hot topics. |
Contenido
Packer | 9 |
Toward a Theory of StreetLevel Bureaucracy | 24 |
Racial Politics Racial Disparities and the War on Crime | 41 |
Derechos de autor | |
Otras 20 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
accused administrative African Americans arrest assault assigned counsel authority behavior capital punishment charge citizens clients community policing convicted correctional County crime control criminal court criminal justice system criminal law criminal process deadly force death penalty defendant's defense attorneys developed discretion disposition drug effect example factors felony gang guilty plea homicide imprisonment incarceration indigent defenders individual influence inmates intermediate punishments interview investigation involved jail judicial law enforcement lawyer ment Minneapolis moral panic murder narcotics negotiations neighborhoods offenders organizational panic parole percent person plea bargaining plead police officers policeman political prior record privately retained counsel probation officers problems prosecution prosecutor public defender public police race racial release reports response result Review role rules sanctions sentencing decisions serious social society street-level bureaucrats tence tion trial types U.S. Justice Department variables victim violence War on Drugs whites York
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Federal Agents: The Growth of Federal Law Enforcement in America Jeff Bumgarner Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |