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

G. Larry Mays

Leanne Fiftal Alarid

Legal Education

Wolters Kluwer/Law & Business

Juvenile Justice (Aspen College Series)

Wolters Kluwer

In this student-friendly text, a team of respected scholars balances practical knowledge of how the mental healthcare system operates in conjunction with the criminal justice system, with an analytical framework that looks at how the quality of that collaboration is reflected in the issues, processes and outcomes of both institutions. Professors and students will benefit from an accessible new text that informs and explores: <ul>
<li>The role of mental healthcare law and procedure in the criminal justice system</li> <li>How mentally ill clients are processed through the criminal justice system</li> <li>Mental healthcare terms, resources, and treatment programs</li> <li>Contemporary issues in mental health and criminal justice, such as the treatment of mentally ill juveniles inside the criminal justice system, and lack of full access to mental healthcare for at-risk groups</li> <li>Discussion of systemic interface and entropy, two central themes to guide student analysis of issues and examples drawn from real life</li> </ul>
Mental Health and Criminal Justice is designed with a wealth of features for study and review, including: <ul>
<li>Learning Objectives </li> <li>Framing the Issues</li> <li>Prologues and Epilogues that frame issues and provide vivid examples</li> <li>Key Terms, highlighted in the text and defined in the Glossary</li> <li>Text boxes that expand on points of interest</li> <li>Summary and Chapter Review Questions at the end of each chapter</li> </ul>

Criminal Justice and Mental Health

Anne F. Segal

Stan Friedman

Aspen Publishing

Juveniles in Contemporary Society: Understanding Juvenile Justice and Delinquency [Connected eBook] (Aspen Criminal Justice Series)

Saundra D. Trujillo

Carlos E. Posadas

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