Criminal justice in action
By: Larry K. Gaines, Roger LeRoy Miller
Contributors: Miller, Roger LeRoy
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Thomson Wadsworth
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Belmont, CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780495093428; 9780495186861; 9780495186878
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Criminal justice today; title: Causes of crime; title: Defining and measuring crime; title: Inside criminal law; title: Law enforcement today; title: Challenges to effective policing; title: Police and the constitution: the rules of law enforcement; title: Courts and the quest for justice; title: Pretrial procedures: the adversary system in action; title: The criminal trial; title: Punishment and sentencing; title: Probation and community corrections; title: Prisons and jails; title: Behind bars: the life of an inmate; title: The juvenile justice system; title: The ongoing war against illegal drugs; title: Terrorism, cuber crime, and the future.