(eBook PDF) Making Sense of Criminal Justice: Policies and Practices 2nd Edition

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product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199314136
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199314133
• Author: G. Larry Mays, Rick Ruddell

Rather than providing students with “the answers,” Making Sense of Criminal Justice, Second Edition, challenges them to think critically about how the criminal justice system deals with difficult situations–such as the use of force by the police–and offers a framework for lively classroom discussions and debates.

table of contents:

1. CHAPTER 1 The Politics and Policy Dichotomy
2. CHAPTER 2 Crime Control versus Due Process
3. CHAPTER 3 Understanding Criminal Justice Policy
4. CHAPTER 4 The Search for a Guiding Philosophy of Policing
5. CHAPTER 5 Police and the Use of Force
6. CHAPTER 6 Gun Control
7. CHAPTER 7 Sentencing
8. CHAPTER 8 Race, Ethnicity, and Justice
9. CHAPTER 9 Gender and Justice
10. CHAPTER 10 Wrongful Convictions
11. CHAPTER 11 What Are the Alternatives to Incarceration?
12. CHAPTER 12 Putting the Brakes on Correctional Populations
13. CHAPTER 13 The Death Penalty: Dying a Slow Death?
14. CHAPTER 14 Responding to Youth Crime
15. CHAPTER 15 Security versus Liberty in the Twenty-First Century
16. CHAPTER 16 Making Sense of Criminal Justice

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