Forty studies that changed criminal justice
Subtitle: explorations into the history of criminal justice research
By: Amy B. Thistlethwaite, John D. Wooldredge.
Contributors: Wooldredge, John.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall; Prentice Hall
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Upper Saddle, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780132349758
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of -- History; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Philosophy; Criminology -- Philosophy; Police administration -- Philosophy; Court administration; Corrections
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Police behavior; title: Police discretion; title: Police operations; title: The police role; title: Police use of deadly force : what explains the variation in police shootings across departments?; title: Female police officers; title: Pre-conviction dispositions; title: The guilty pleas process; title: The jury trial; title: Sentencing; title: Structuring sentencing decisions; title: Correctional goals; title: Community corrections; title: Inmate subcultures; title: Inmate violence; title: Correctional officers.