Courts And Criminal Justice In America

Author : Larry J. Siegel,Frank Schmalleger,John L. Worrall
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Criminal courts
ISBN : 0133459993

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Courts and Criminal Justice in America by Larry J. Siegel,Frank Schmalleger,John L. Worrall Pdf

This comprehensive text offers a balanced presentation with a modern approach to the court system in America. Courts and Criminal Justice in America, 2e, is the collaboration of the most popular criminal justice authors of the century. Featuring a balanced and modern presentation, this book not only looks at the basic structure of the court system and court process, but also covers the recent trends and controversial issues facing courts today. This student-friendly text does not presuppose any knowledge about the courts or how they operate. Highlighted, controversial cases illustrate the tremendous power that the court system has to regulate citizens' lives, to shape what is acceptable and what is forbidden, and to ensure that criminal justice policy balances both rights and liberties. This respected author team delivers the most comprehensive introduction to America's courts on the market today. Teaching and Learning Experience The book gives a comprehensive look at the courts, their personnel and the context in which they operate. It provides: A balanced presentation: Includes all sides of the most controversial issues facing courts today Modern approach: Covers a wide range of topics and recent trends in the field that stir controversy and enliven discussion as they relate to the courts Comprehensive, up-to-date coverage: Timely, extensive coverage presupposes no prior knowledge Strong pedagogical features: Gives students the tools to master key concepts faster and more effectively

Author : David W. Neubauer,Henry F. Fradella,Professor and Chair of Criminal Justice Henry F Fradella
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Criminal courts
ISBN : 0538738294

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America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System by David W. Neubauer,Henry F. Fradella,Professor and Chair of Criminal Justice Henry F Fradella Pdf

Widely used and widely respected, "America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System", Tenth Edition, offers a comprehensive explanation of the courts and the criminal justice system, presented in a streamlined, straightforward manner that appeals to instructors and students alike. Neubauer and Fradella's crisp, clear writing style, characterized by careful chunking of material into small sections within chapters, ensures that readers gain a firm handle on the material, while the text's innovative "courtroom workhouse" model, which focuses on the interrelationships among the judge, prosecutor, and defense attorney, brings the courtroom to life. This popular text is known for the way it gives students a true glimpse what it is like to work within the American criminal justice system, and the tenth edition is no exception. This modern edition offers coverage that reflects recent policy shaping and headline-making developments as well as incorporation of additional student-learning and review tools.

Author : Larry J. Siegel,Frank Schmalleger,John L. Worrall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Criminal courts
ISBN : 0135780586

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Courts and Criminal Justice in America by Larry J. Siegel,Frank Schmalleger,John L. Worrall Pdf

"The courts are a critical component of American criminal justice because they determine what happens to people charged with violating the law. Courts are important beyond criminal justice, too. Disputes that arise between private parties, businesses, government officials, and the like are brought to court in order to ensure that they are heard in a neutral forum"--

Author : David Neubauer
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Criminal courts
ISBN : 1285062248

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America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System by David Neubauer Pdf

The premier choice for Courts courses for decades, this popular text offers a comprehensive explanation of the courts and the criminal justice system, presented in a streamlined, straightforward manner that appeals to instructors and students alike. Neubauer and Fradella's crisp and clear writing, characterized by the organization of material into brief sections within chapters, ensures that readers gain a firm handle on the material. At the same time, the text's innovative "courtroom workhouse" model, which focuses on the interrelationships among the judge, prosecutor, and defense attorney, brings the courtroom to life. AMERICA'S COURTS AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, 11E, International Edition has long been known for the way it gives students a true glimpse what it is like to work within the American criminal justice system.

Author : Roscoe Pound
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351288828

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Criminal Justice in America by Roscoe Pound Pdf

Roscoe Pound believed that unless the criminal justice system maintains stability while adapting to change, it will either fossilize or be subject to the whims of public opinion. In Criminal Justice in America, Pound recognizes the dangers law faces when it does not keep pace with societal change. When the home, neighborhood, and religion are no longer capable of social control, increased conflicts arise, laws proliferate, and new menaces wrought by technology, drugs, and juvenile delinquency flourish. Where Pound saw the influence of the motion pictures as part of the "multiplication of the agencies of menace," today we might cite television and the Internet. His point still holds true: The "old machinery" cannot meet the evolving needs of society. In Criminal Justice in America,Pound points out that one aspect of the criminal justice problem is a rigid mechanical approach that resists change. The other dimension of the problem is that change, when it comes, will result from the pressure of public opinion. Justice suffers when the public is moved by the oldest of public feelings, vengeance. This can result in citizens taking the law into their own hands--from tax evasion to mob lynchings--as well as in altering the judicial system--from sensationalizing trials to producing wrongful convictions. Ron Christenson, in his new introduction, discusses the evolution of Roscoe Pound's career and thought. Pound's theories on jurisprudence were remarkably prescient. They continue to gain resonance as crimes become more and more sensationalized by the media.Criminal Justice in America is a fascinating study that should be read by legal scholars and professionals, sociologists, political theorists, and philosophers.

Author : Carla Lewandowski,Jeff Bumgarner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781440862632

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Criminal Justice in America [2 volumes] by Carla Lewandowski,Jeff Bumgarner Pdf

This authoritative set provides a comprehensive overview of issues and trends in crime, law enforcement, courts, and corrections that encompass the field of criminal justice studies in the United States. This work offers a thorough introduction to the field of criminal justice, including types of crime; policing; courts and sentencing; landmark legal decisions; and local, state, and federal corrections systems—and the key topics and issues within each of these important areas. It provides a complete overview and understanding of the many terms, jobs, procedures, and issues surrounding this growing field of study. Another major focus of the work is to examine ethical questions related to policing and courts, trial procedures, law enforcement and corrections agencies and responsibilities, and the complexion of criminal justice in the United States in the 21st century. Finally, this title emphasizes coverage of such politically charged topics as drug trafficking and substance abuse, immigration, environmental protection, government surveillance and civil rights, deadly force, mass incarceration, police militarization, organized crime, gangs, wrongful convictions, racial disparities in sentencing, and privatization of the U.S. prison system.

Author : David W. Neubauer
Publisher : Thomson
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Criminal courts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060804312

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America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System by David W. Neubauer Pdf

Author : Larry J. Siegel,John L. Worrall
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0134526759

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Courts and Criminal Justice in America, Student Value Edition by Larry J. Siegel,John L. Worrall Pdf

Author : Alison Burke,David Carter,Brian Fedorek,Tiffany Morey,Lore Rutz-Burri,Shanell Sanchez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1636350682

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SOU-CCJ230 Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System by Alison Burke,David Carter,Brian Fedorek,Tiffany Morey,Lore Rutz-Burri,Shanell Sanchez Pdf

Author : Bertha Watkins
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798806016479

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America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System by Bertha Watkins Pdf

Law enforcement Law enforcement is the conveyance of equity to the people who have been blamed for carrying out violations. The law enforcement framework is a progression of government offices and foundations. Objectives incorporate the restoration of wrongdoers, forestalling different violations, and moral help for casualties. The essential foundations of the law enforcement framework are the police, arraignment and protection legal advisors, the courts and jails.

Author : Wilbur R. Miller
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 2657 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412988780

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The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America by Wilbur R. Miller Pdf

Several encyclopedias overview the contemporary system of criminal justice in America, but full understanding of current social problems and contemporary strategies to deal with them can come only with clear appreciation of the historical underpinnings of those problems. Thus, this five-volume work surveys the history and philosophy of crime, punishment, and criminal justice institutions in America from colonial times to the present. It covers the whole of the criminal justice system, from crimes, law enforcement and policing, to courts, corrections and human services. Among other things, this encyclopedia: explicates philosophical foundations underpinning our system of justice; charts changing patterns in criminal activity and subsequent effects on legal responses; identifies major periods in the development of our system of criminal justice; and explores in the first four volumes - supplemented by a fifth volume containing annotated primary documents - evolving debates and conflicts on how best to address issues of crime and punishment. Its signed entries in the first four volumes--supplemented by a fifth volume containing annotated primary documents--provide the historical context for students to better understand contemporary criminological debates and the contemporary shape of the U.S. system of law and justice.

Author : David W. Neubauer
Publisher : Thomson Brooks/Cole
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044041841

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America's Courts & the Criminal Justice System by David W. Neubauer Pdf

Open this book and step into America's court system! What's it like to be a judge? A prosecutor? A defense attorney? With Neubauer's best-selling book, you'll find out! This fascinating and well-researched text gives you the sense of being in the courthouse-of what it is like to work in and be a part of the system. This concept of the courthouse "players" illustrates each person's important role in bringing a case through the court process. Throughout the text, Neubauer highlights not only the pivotal role of the criminal courts within the criminal justice system but also the court's importance and impact on society as a whole.

Author : Neubauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 049531952X

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I. M. America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System by Neubauer Pdf

Author : William J. Stuntz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674051751

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The Collapse of American Criminal Justice by William J. Stuntz Pdf

Rule of law has vanished in America’s criminal justice system. Prosecutors decide whom to punish; most accused never face a jury; policing is inconsistent; plea bargaining is rampant; and draconian sentencing fills prisons with mostly minority defendants. A leading criminal law scholar looks to history for the roots of these problems—and solutions.

Author : Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780804799201

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Crook County by Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve Pdf

Winner of the 2017 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Winner of the 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association's Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities. Winner of the 2017 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, sponsored by the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Culture Section. Honorable Mention in the 2017 Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Race, Class, and Gender. NAACP Image Award Nominee for an Outstanding Literary Work from a debut author. Winner of the 2017 Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences and the 2017 Prose Category Award for Law and Legal Studies, sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers. Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (Current Events/Social Issues category). Americans are slowly waking up to the dire effects of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities of color. The criminal courts are the crucial gateway between police action on the street and the processing of primarily black and Latino defendants into jails and prisons. And yet the courts, often portrayed as sacred, impartial institutions, have remained shrouded in secrecy, with the majority of Americans kept in the dark about how they function internally. Crook County bursts open the courthouse doors and enters the hallways, courtrooms, judges' chambers, and attorneys' offices to reveal a world of punishment determined by race, not offense. Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve spent ten years working in and investigating the largest criminal courthouse in the country, Chicago–Cook County, and based on over 1,000 hours of observation, she takes readers inside our so-called halls of justice to witness the types of everyday racial abuses that fester within the courts, often in plain sight. We watch white courtroom professionals classify and deliberate on the fates of mostly black and Latino defendants while racial abuse and due process violations are encouraged and even seen as justified. Judges fall asleep on the bench. Prosecutors hang out like frat boys in the judges' chambers while the fates of defendants hang in the balance. Public defenders make choices about which defendants they will try to "save" and which they will sacrifice. Sheriff's officers cruelly mock and abuse defendants' family members. Delve deeper into Crook County with related media and instructor resources at www.sup.org/crookcountyresources. Crook County's powerful and at times devastating narratives reveal startling truths about a legal culture steeped in racial abuse. Defendants find themselves thrust into a pernicious legal world where courtroom actors live and breathe racism while simultaneously committing themselves to a colorblind ideal. Gonzalez Van Cleve urges all citizens to take a closer look at the way we do justice in America and to hold our arbiters of justice accountable to the highest standards of equality.