Making Sense of Criminal Justice

G. Larry Mays

Rick Ruddell

Oxford University Press Academic US

Essentials of Corrections

Politics & Social Sciences

L. Thomas Winfree Jr.

Social Sciences

Thomson/Wadsworth

This text presents an alternative to the larger, 700 page-plus, expensive texts available to students. By focusing on a "back to basics" approach, it gives students everything they need to know for future coursework without excessive coverage. Written at an accessible level, it presents the role corrections plays in society within the criminal justice system. It also deals with the corrections continuum and with community-based corrections.

Contemporary Corrections (with InfoTrac)

Wadsworth Publishing

A new, back-to-basics introduction to criminal justice, thoughtfully structured to offer a much more direct approach than the bloated and design-heavy competitors. Student friendly without being busy, Introduction to Criminal Justice:The Essentials has been designed from the ground up to cover all the key topics in an intro criminal justice class. The strong writing team of Winfree, Mays, and Alarid provides 90 years of combined experience teaching undergraduate criminal justice students.
Features: <ul>
<li>New introduction to criminal justice text that is designed to be thorough, yet brief. The authors have created a book that covers the necessary range of topics in an accessible and coherent manner. </li> <li>Unlike competing books, this book was written from the "ground up" not condensed from a much longer text.</li> <li>The authors present students with the information necessary to make them successful in their subsequent criminal justice classes, as well as to be informed consumers of criminal justice services as citizens of the United States.</li> <li>Presents crucial information without drowning students in a sea of interesting, but unnecessary, facts and trivial topics.</li> <li>Boxes, tables, and figures provide information in the simplest, most easily understood ways possible. Students are able to understand the presentations intuitively, while still being challenged to think critically.</li> <li>Text carefully written to stimulate critical reading, thinking, and writing skills.</li> </ul>

Introduction To Criminal Justice: the Essentials (Aspen College)

L. Thomas Winfree

Leanne Fiftal Alarid

Legal Education

Wolters Kluwer/Law & Business

Juvenile Justice (Aspen College Series)

Wolters Kluwer

Now in its fourth edition, Courts and Justice: A Reader continues to generate a constructive approach to the social and political nature of the U.S. court system. This updated collection of 26 carefully selected readings explores the public's incorrect assumptions about the role and functions of the courts; media misrepresentations of its participants; and the ongoing conflict between citizens, professionals, and the executive branch over who should control the courts. In-depth material on areas of court study that are often overlooked, such as gender inclusion/bias, court administration, and wrongful convictions, highlights the debate over judicial independence, the need for accountability, and prosecutorial decision making. In a democratic society within a constitutional framework, who owns the courts? Is it those who may not fully understand its inner workings and processes, or those who apply its rules? Mays and Gregware provide a practical framework for an examination of court functions, problems, and issues that engenders a clearer understanding of basic civic theories and their subsequent effort to enhance the social good.

Courts and Justice: A Reader

Peter R. Gregware

Sociology

Waveland Pr Inc.

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