Criminal Justice Today Intro 21c - Hardcover

Schmalleger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0138482500 ISBN 13: 9780138482503

Verlag: Pearson Education (US), 1998

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Book by Schmalleger Frank

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Reseña del editor

A textbook for a first college course, focusing on innovations and potentials in the field rather than its traditions and conventional practice. Covers crime in America, policing, adjudication, corrections, and special issues such as juvenile delinquency and drugs. Updated every two years since the

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Includes queries into individual rights and public order, crime data and social policy, women and crime, behavioral conditioning, the nature of law, historical development of the police, search and seizure, sentencing, probation and parole, prison riots, prisoner's rights, juvenile justice, and more. Fifth Edition now covers such news-making individuals and events as JonBenet Ramsey; the 1997 North Hollywood, CA, shoot-out between police and bank robbers who were armed with fully automatic AK-47's; FBI crime lab criticisms; hate crimes; Princess Diana's untimely death. Includes over 20 new U.S. Supreme Court cases plus a series of thought-provoking boxes titled "Criminal Justice in the Twenty-First Century". Web watch sections at the end of each chapter guide readers to a dedicated web site.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pearson Education (US)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0138482500
• ISBN 13: 9780138482503
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 785
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar