Critical issues in criminal justice
By: Ronald G. Burns.
Contributors: Burns, Ronald G., 1968-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780205553747
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
Table of contents: value: Foundational issues; value: The case of the unsolved crime decline / R. Rosenfeld; value: The new math on crime / Will Sullivan; value: Neuroscience and the law / Michael Gazzaniga and Megan S. Steven; value: iii Winds: the chemical plant next door / Becky Bradway; value: Chasing my stolen bicycle / Justin Jouvenal; value: Virginia Tech shooting leaves 33 dead / Christine Hauser and Anahad O'Connor; value: Duke lacrosse players relieved case has "closure" / The Associated Press; value: O.J. Simpson's book and TV special are canceled / Bill Carter and Edward Wyatt; value: Policing; value: Introduction to section II; value: Help wanted / Jack Dunphy; value: Katrina, one year later? / Ann Wilder and James Arey; value: Super Bowl XXXIX: the successful response of the FBI and its partners / Jeffrey Westcott; value: Forensic nursing: an aid to law enforcement / Joseph R. Yost; value: Why racial profiling doesn't work / Kim Zetter; value: Mayor meets groom's family in NYPD slaying / The Associated Press; value: Early detection of the problem officer / Dino DeCrescenzo; value: Policing the future: law enforcement's new challenges / Gene Stephens; value: Courts; value: Introduction to section III; value: A court in a storm / Aaron Kuriloff; value: The case against plea bargaining / Timothy Lynch; value: Rights of defense / Andrew Rachlin; value: How much should lawyers know when picking a jury? / M. B. E. Smith; value: Self-defense vs. municipal gun bans / Robert VerBruggen; value: The innocents: idealistic law students labor to free the wrongly accused / Michele Cohen Marill; value: Evil twins: and how DNA evidence is useless against them / John Wolfson; value: Effects of capital punishment on the justice system / Brent E. Dickson; value: Corrections; value: Introduction to section IV; value: The carrot and the sticks / Jens Soering; value: Paris starts, ends week behind bars / John Rogers; value: Incarceration and crime: a complex relationship / Ryan S. King, Marc Mauer, and Malcolm C. Young; value: Panel suggests using inmates in drug trials / Ian Urbina; value: Serving life, with no chance of redemption / Adam Liptak; value: Barred from voting / Katharine Mieszkowski; value: Felon fallout / Alan Greenblatt; value: Returning home: scholars say more research is needed on the societal re-entry of the formerly incarcerated / Ronald Roach; value: Juvenile justice and emerging issues in criminal justice; value: Introduction to section V; value: The trouble with troubled teen programs / Maia Szalavitz; value: Jailed for life after crimes as teenagers / Adam Liptak; value: Young lives for sale / Bay Fang; value: Stepchildren of justice / Carl M. Cannon; value: Biometrics basics / Law and Order staff; value: GPS offender tracking & the police officer / Patrick Hyde and Nicole DeJarnatt; value: Do immigrants make us safer? / Eyal Press; value: The CSI effect / Kit R. Roane; value: Credits.