This new edition updates the first edition.
 The Decision-Making Network presents criminal justice to undergraduate students as a network of interrelated decisions made by diverse actors in multiple agencies. Legislative decisions about what should be the content of the criminal law, police officers' decisions regarding investigation and arrest, prosecutors' decisions regarding whether to prosecute and what charges to bring, judges' decisions, appellate court decisions, juries' decisions, correctional decisions … all comprise the complex network of criminal justice.
 This text examines criminal justice decisions in historical context with attention to the Constitutional values and principles which undergird American criminal justice. Students learn how crises often drive the making of law, the development of policies, and the practice of criminal justice. It examines the tensions between civil liberties and public safety, and it introduces the challenges of terrorism, immigration, drug enforcement, and other emerging issues which confront the criminal justice decision maker.
Praise for the first edition:
 ""There are many introduction to criminal justice textbooks; only a few can be considered ""classics."" This is one of those. When the late Don Newman conceived this text and when Pat Anderson joined him as a co-author, the approach was unique in getting students to consider not ""what"" criminal justice is but, rather, how decision-making at various points dynamically affects what we think of as the disparate segments of the criminal justice system. With the addition of Ris Slate in the contemporary version, the decision-making approach continues and is updated to today's contentious times in which legislative decisions made for ideological reasons result in public expectations at odds with pragmatic criminal justice decisions in the field. One of the most difficult tasks in teaching criminal justice is getting students to understand how ideological views of crime affect the practical nature of decision-making on the streets, in the offices, and around the courtrooms. By introducing these ideas at the level of an introductory course, this text makes a professor's job substantially easier."" - Frank P. Williams III, University of Houston-Downtown
The text presents the criminal justice system in a manner different than other texts-as a complicated network influenced by a variety of actors, many of whom are behind-the-scenes and perhaps motivated by interests other than public safety. This framework for the text is particularly useful, as it helps students to appreciate the complexity of case processing, and more importantly, to understand why things are done as they are done."" - Sharon Chamard, University of Alaska Anchorage
 ""The Decision-Making Network is a refreshing alternative to the traditional introduction to criminal justice textbook. As an assistant professor teaching a minimum of four introductory level criminal justice courses per year I value the approach taken by Anderson and Slate in this new text. This book includes both the historical, procedural and constitutional issues necessary for a criminal justice textbook as well as a focus on the values and context surrounding the application of justice in our crime control system. The critical analysis of how social crisis drives public policy concerning crime control is especially inspiring and is sure to invigorate meaningful classroom discussion and enhance critical thinking skills in our students. This book provides not only an overview of the criminal justice system, as is expected of any introduction to criminal justice textbook, but also invites students to ask ""Why does the system work the way it does?"" and ""Is this the best possible way of providing justice?"" These are valuable skills for any student entering ""the decision-making network"" after graduation."" - Suzanne M. Godboldt, Ph.D., Mercyhurst College

The Decision-Making Network: An Introduction to Criminal Justice

Politics & Social Sciences

Anderson, Patrick

Carter, Lisa

Slate, Risdon

Social Sciences

Carolina Academic Press

Product Description 
For a myriad of reasons the criminal justice system has become the de facto mental health system in the United States. The third edition of The Criminalization of Mental Illness thoroughly explains these reasons, and describes in detail specialized law enforcement responses to people with mental illness (PWMI), mental health courts, jails and prison conditions, and discharge planning for this group.\nThe third edition also includes examples of crises involving PWMI that end up driving policy, examines how therapeutic jurisprudence can be utilized to improve responses to PWMI and to ameliorate the inhumane and costly recycling of PWMI through the criminal justice system, and provides insight from criminal justice practitioners, in their own words, about the challenges both PWMI and practitioners face in the system and efforts to overcome them. This edition also examines the tension throughout the system when attempting to balance public safety and civil liberties. The concept of defunding the police and the impact of the Affordable Care Act on PWMI are considered as well.\nCompared to the second edition, the third edition is streamlined, with 11 total chapters (down from 13). It includes updated data on PWMI involved in the criminal justice system, a discussion of important events that have taken place since the publication of the second edition, as well as descriptions and analyses of key policies and practices enacted since that time. In short, it is the most comprehensive and up-to-date volume for students, academics, and practitioners interested in these crucial issues. 
 About the Author 
Risdon Slate is a Professor of Criminology at Florida Southern College. Kelly Frailing is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Loyola University New Orleans. Wesley Johnson is a Professor and Doctoral Program Director of the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Southern Mississippi. Jacqueline K. Buffington is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice performing forensic evaluations, and conducts trainings and research on mental health-criminal justice collaboration in jails.

The Criminalization of Mental Illness: Crisis and Opportunity for the Justice System

Frailing, Kelly

Buffington, Jacqueline

Johnson, W.

The Criminal Justice Decision-making Network presents criminal justice to undergraduate students as a network of interrelated decisions made by diverse actors in multiple agencies. Legislative decisions about what should be the content of the criminal law, police officers' decisions regarding investigation and arrest, prosecutors' decisions regarding whether to prosecute and what charges to bring, judges' decisions, appellate court decisions, juries' decisions, correctional decisions....all comprise the complex network of criminal justice. This text examines criminal justice decisions in historical context with attention to the Constitutional values and principles which undergird American criminal justice. Students learn how crises often drive the making of law, the development of policies, and the practice of criminal justice. The tensions between civil liberties and public safety are examined. And the challenges of terrorism, immigration, drug enforcement, and other emerging issues which confront the criminal justice decision maker are introduced.

For a myriad of reasons the criminal justice system has become the de facto mental health system. This book explores how and why this is the case. Sensationalized cases often drive criminal justice policies that can sometimes be impulsively enacted and misguided. While there are chapters that examine competency, insanity, and inpatient and outpatient commitment, the primary focus of the book is on the bulk of encounters that clog the criminal justice system with persons with mental illnesses (pwmi). Criminal justice practitioners are often ill-equipped for dealing with pwmi in crises. However, via application of therapeutic jurisprudence principles some agencies are better preparing their employees for such encounters and attempting to stop the inhumane and costly recycling of pwmi through the criminal justice system. Coverage runs the gamut from deinstitutionalization, to specialized law enforcement responses, to mental health courts, to jails and prisons, to discharge planning, diversion, and reentry. Also, criminal justice practitioners in their own words provide insight into and examples of the interface between the mental health and criminal justice systems. Throughout the book the balance between maintaining public safety and preserving civil liberties is examined as the state's police power and parens patriae roles are considered. Reasoned, collaborative approaches for influencing and informing policies that are often driven by crises are discussed; this book also reflects more psychological underpinnings than the 1st edition, as one of the co-authors new to this edition is a forensic clinical psychologist.

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The Decision-Making Network: An Introduction to Criminal Justice

The Criminalization of Mental Illness: Crisis and Opportunity for the Justice System

The Decision-Making Network: An Introduction to Criminal Justice

The Criminalization of Mental Illness: Crisis and Opportunity for the Justice System