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Criminal justice in action /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaines, Larry K.
Other Authors: Miller, Roger LeRoy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Thompson Learning, 2004.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Police > Protection > United States > Textbooks.
Criminal procedure > United States > Textbooks.
Criminal law > United States > Textbooks.
Table of Contents:
  • Criminal justice today
  • Measuring and explaining crime
  • Criminal law
  • Police: agents of law and order
  • Policing: organization and strategies
  • Police and the rule of law
  • Challenges to effective policing
  • Courts and the quest for justice
  • Pretrial procedures: the adversary system in action
  • Criminal trial
  • Punishment and sentencing
  • Probation and community corrections
  • Prisons and jails
  • Behind bars: the life of an inmate
  • Juvenile justice system
  • Ongoing war against illegal drugs
  • Cyber crime
  • Appendix A: The Constitution
  • Appendix B You be the judge: the courts' actual decisions.