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Crime and justice in America : an introduction to criminal justice / Joycelyn M. Pollock.

By: Publication details: Waltham, MA : Anderson Pub., c2012.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xiv, 436 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781437735123 (pbk.) :
  • 1437735126 (pbk.) :
Other title:
  • Crime & justice in America [Cover title]
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV9950 .P65 2012
Contents:
Criminal justice as social control -- Crime in society -- Why do people commit crime? -- Police in America -- Police operations -- Policing and the legal process -- Law and society -- Courts in America -- Due process : arrest through sentencing -- Juvenile justice and corrections -- The function of corrections -- Pretrial diversion and probation -- Prisons and jail -- Parole and reentry -- Looking toward the future : criminal justice in the twenty-first century.

Rev. ed. of: Crime & justice in America : an introduction to criminal justice. c2008.

Criminal justice as social control -- Crime in society -- Why do people commit crime? -- Police in America -- Police operations -- Policing and the legal process -- Law and society -- Courts in America -- Due process : arrest through sentencing -- Juvenile justice and corrections -- The function of corrections -- Pretrial diversion and probation -- Prisons and jail -- Parole and reentry -- Looking toward the future : criminal justice in the twenty-first century.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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