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