Crime and justice in America
Subtitle: an introduction to criminal justice
By: Joycelyn M. Pollock
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Anderson Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Waltham, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781437735123
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice
Other titles: Crime & justice in America
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Crime & justice in America : an introduction to criminal justice. c2008.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Criminal justice as social control --; title: Crime in society --; title: Why do people commit crime? --; title: Police in America --; title: Police operations --; title: Policing and the legal process --; title: Law and society --; title: Courts in America --; title: Due process : arrest through sentencing --; title: Juvenile justice and corrections --; title: The function of corrections --; title: Pretrial diversion and probation --; title: Prisons and jail --; title: Parole and reentry --; title: Looking toward the future : criminal justice in the twenty-first century.