Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction, 9/e
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Frank Schmalleger
The best-selling brief introduction to criminal justice text, Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction 9e offers instructors and students a trusted, authoritative and impeccably researched introduction to police, courts, and corrections. Its unifying theme, its unmatched timeliness and its coverage of trends and technology makes this text THE standard by which all other brief texts are judged.
An interactive website along with author tweets (@schmalleger) extends chapter material and provides up-to-the minute currentthe most recent information on this ever-evolving field.
Table of Contents:
- What is Criminal Justice?
- The Crime Picture
- Criminal Law
- Policing: Purpose and Organizations
- Policing: Legal Aspects
- Policing: Issues and Challenges
- The Courts
- The Courtroom Work Group and the Criminal Trial
- Sentencing
- Probation, Parole, and Community Corrections
- Prisons and Jails
- Prison Life
- Juvenile Justice
About the Author: Frank Schmalleger, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Ohio State University, having earned both a master’s (1970) and a doctorate in sociology (1974) from Ohio State University with a special emphasis in criminology. Schmalleger is also the Director of the Justice Research Association, a private consulting firm and think tank focusing on issues of crime and justice.
The Justice Research Association (JRA) serves the needs of the nation’s civil and criminal justice planners and administrators through workshops, conferences, and grant-writing and program-evaluation support. JRA also sponsors the Criminal Justice Distance Learning Consortium, which resides on the Web at http://www.cjdlc.org.
Schmalleger is the author of numerous articles and more than thirty criminal justice books.
