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Students will learn about core topics in criminal justice—including policing, corrections, criminal behaviour, and criminal law and courts, as well as special topics such as juvenile justice, terrorism, gangs, hate crimes, sex offenders, and domestic violence—while learning how to solve problems they are likely to face in a variety of criminal justice career paths.

Table of Contents:
Part I: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AS A SYSTEM: THE BASICS Chapter 1. Fundamentals of Criminal Justice: Essential Themes and Practices Chapter 2. Foundations of Law and Crime: Nature, Elements, and Defenses Chapter 3. Theories of Crime and Measuring Victimization Chapter 4. Ethical Essentials: “Doing right when no one is watching” Part II: THE POLICE Chapter 5. Police Organization: Structure and Functions Chapter 6. Police at Work: Patrolling and Investigating Chapter 7. Police Methods and Challenges Chapter 8. Expounding the Constitution: Laws of Arrest, Search, and Seizure Part III THE COURTS Chapter 9. Court Organization: Structures, Functions and the Trial Process Chapter 10. The Bench and the Bar: Those Who Judge, Prosecute and Defend Chapter 11. Court Methods and Challenges: Sentencing and Punishment Part IV: CORRECTIONS Chapter 12. Prison and Jail Organization: Structures and Functions Chapter 13. The Inmates' World: The "Keepers" and the "Kept" Chapter 14. Corrections in the Community: Probation, Parole, Other Alternatives to Incarceration Part V: SPANNING THE SYSTEM: METHODS AND ISSUES Chapter 15: Juvenile Justice: Philosophy, Law, and Practices Chapter 16: On the Crime Policy and Prevention Agenda: Terrorism, Gun Control, and Marijuana Appendix I: Selected Amendments to the U.S. Constitution Appendix II: Careers in Criminal Justice

About the Author :
Kenneth J. Peak is emeritus professor and former chair of the Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nevada, Reno, where he was named “Teacher of the Year” by the university’s Honor Society. Following four years as a municipal police officer in Kansas, he subsequently held positions as a nine-county criminal justice planner for southeast Kansas; director of a four-state technical assistance institute for the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (based at Washburn University in Topeka); director of university police at Pittsburg State University (Kansas); acting director of public safety, University of Nevada, Reno; and assistant professor of criminal justice at Wichita State University. He has authored or coauthored 37 additional textbooks (relating to general policing, community policing, criminal justice administration, police supervision and management, and women in law enforcement), two historical books (on Kansas temperance and bootlegging), and more than 60 journal articles and invited book chapters. He is past chair of the Police Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and past president of the Western Association of Criminal Justice. He received two gubernatorial appointments to statewide criminal justice committees while residing in Kansas and holds a doctorate from the University of Kansas.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781483352107
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Inc Ebooks
  • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Practice and Process
  • ISBN-10: 1483352102
  • Publisher Date: 30 Dec 2013
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 480


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