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Criminal Justice



Criminal Justice Today: An Introductory Text for the 21st Century, 9/E
Frank Schmalleger, Emeritus, University of North Carolina

ISBN-10: 0131719505
ISBN-13: 9780131719507

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
Format: Cloth; 832 pp
Published: 02/07/2006

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The best-selling introduction to criminal justice text of all time, Criminal Justice Today 9/e, continues to set the standard with its hallmark features of theme, technology, and time.  Comprehensive coverage and a loaded multimedia supplements package make this textbook easy to adapt to introductory criminal justice courses, proving the ease of use for both students and instructors alike.  The strengths of the book rest in the application of theoretical perspectives to current real world activities related to criminal justice issues.  New technology and cases are also incorporated, bringing the textbook and student together in current issues.

HALLMARK FEATURES:

 

- BEST SELLING Intro to CJ book of all time!

- Thematic, timely, comprehensive coverage

- CENTRAL THEME - how do our society and Criminal Justice system balance freedom & safety - helps students think about the criminal justice system in a time when FREEDOM VS. SAFETY has never been more important.

- THEME - Individual Rights (FREEDOM) vs. Public Order (SAFETY)

- TIMELINESS - Coverage of how CJ has changed in response to the ongoing threat of terrorism

- TECHNOLOGY - Covered extensively in text and complete multimedia learning package

NEW! — CJ Ethics & Professionalism Boxes — place an enhanced emphasis on ethics

  • Stresses the importance of ethical behavior for the criminal justice professional  

NEW! — New Juvenile Justice chart — details the flow of events in the juvenile justice system

  • Gives students a dynamic visual & overview of the organization of the system 

NEW! — CD Extras — An added CD that provides additional and in-depth coverage of important issues and background material found in text.  Also includes full opinions of important U.S. Supreme Court cases found in text

  • Gives the students and extra CD to work with even more coverage of new text added materials 

NEW! — A global approach to the problem of terrorism — shows its impact on policing, corrections, and the courts

  • Shows students where there are locations of terrorists organizations world-wide and their impact on every day aspects of criminal justice.

THEME

 

- Even more NEW Freedom or Safety boxes - emphasizes important issues between individual rights advocates and those who seek more public order

 

TIMELINESS

 

- NEW Homeland Security Era in Policing coverage which grew out of national concerns with terrorism prevention post 9-11 - how it effects Policing in the 21st Century

- NEW coverage on Drug Abuse in the U.S. and economic costs - chapter 16

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TECHNOLOGY

 

- NEW - FBI's new information technology tools

- NEW - coverage of the 2004 Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act - increased federal prison sentences for the use of stolen credit card numbers - chapter 2

- NEW - coverage of the Innocence Protection Act of 2004 - new procedures for applications for DNA testing by inmates in the federal prison system - chapters 11 & 18

Part One: Crime in America

 

Chapter 1: What is Criminal Justice

Chapter 2: The Crime Picture

Chapter 3: The Search for Causes

Chapter 4: Criminal Law

 

Part Two: Policing

 

Chapter 5: Policing: History and Structure

Chapter 6: Policing: Purpose and Organization

Chapter 7: Policing: Legal Aspects

Chapter 8: Policing: Issues and Challenges

 

Part Three: Adjudication

 

Chapter 9: The Courts: Structure and Participants

Chapter 10: Pretrial Activities and the Criminal Trial

Chapter 11: Sentencing

 

Part Four: Corrections

 

Chapter 12: Probation, Parole, and Community Corrections

Chapter 13: Prisons and Jails

Chapter 14: Prison Life

 

Part Five: Special Issues

 

Chapter 15: Juvenile Justice

Chapter 16: Drugs and Crime

Chapter 17: Terrorism and Multinational Criminal Justice

Chapter 18: The Future of Criminal Justice

 

Bill of Rights

List of Acronyms

Glossary

Case Index

Name Index

Subject Index

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    The best-selling introduction to criminal justice text of all time, Criminal Justice Today, 8e sets the standard with its thematic approach, timely, comprehensive coverage and complete multimedia supplements package. The central theme of the book-how do our society and the criminal justice system balance freedom and safety-has been the book's defining feature since the first edition and is more important now than ever before. Criminal Justice Today 8e provides students with the most up-to-date, engaging and authoritative introduction to the criminal justice system available today.

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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. From 1976 to 1994, he taught criminology and criminal justice courses at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. For the last 16 of those years, he chaired the university’s Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice. The university named him Distinguished Professor in 1991.

 

            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 has taught in the online graduate program of the New School for Social Research, helping to build the world’s first electronic classrooms in support of distance learning through computer telecommunications. As an adjunct professor with Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, Schmalleger helped develop the university’s graduate program in security administration and loss prevention. He taught courses in that curriculum for more than a decade. An avid Web surfer, Schmalleger is also the creator of a number of award-winning World Wide Web sites, including one that supports this textbook (http://www.cjtoday.com).

 

            Frank Schmalleger is the author of numerous articles and more than thirty books, including the widely used Criminal Justice Today: An Introductory Text for the 21st Century (Prentice Hall, 2007), Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction (Prentice Hall, 2006), Criminology Today (Prentice Hall, 2006), and Criminal Law Today (Prentice Hall, 2006).

 

            Schmalleger is also founding editor of the journal Criminal Justice Studies. He has served as editor for the Prentice Hall series Criminal Justice in the Twenty-First Century and as imprint adviser for Greenwood Publishing Group’s criminal justice reference series.

 

            Schmalleger’s philosophy of both teaching and writing can be summed up in these words: “In order to communicate knowledge we must first catch, then hold, a person’s interest–be it student, colleague, or policymaker. Our writing, our speaking, and our teaching must be relevant to the problems facing people today, and they must in some way help solve those problems.”

 

Visit the author’s website at http://www.schmalleger.com.

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