This book views the criminal justice system as a whole composed of many subsystems the police, the prosecutors, the courts, and corrections, including probation and parole. It describes the subsystems of the criminal justice system as the authors know them to be not as they should be. This fifth edition incorporates the latest developments while retaining the basic organization of previous editions. Illustrations have been revised to reflect the latest facts and figures. This Preview Edition is a large-format soft-cover book preliminary to the college-level textbook which will be released in mid-2009 for the Fall term.This book is designed to provide students with basic information on the criminal justice system. The first part of the text places the criminal justice system in proper perspective. Students are first introduced to the nature of law and society in general. The methods for assessing the amount of crime are presented, followed by a brief overview of criminal justice agencies and the criminal justice process. The criminal justice agencies are discussed in the order in which they are usually encountered when an individual goes through the criminal justice process. Sections on the police, the prosecution and defense, the courts, corrections, and probation and parole all follow a pattern: within each of these sections the history, present structure, current functions, and contemporary problems of each major area are thoroughly discussed.   A number of pedagogical features have been built into the fifth edition to help students master the material. Each chapter begins with an outline, so that students can quickly see what will be covered, and a statement of purpose, to help students understand exactly what they are supposed to master and why. At the end of each chapter, a summary and a list of key terms will aid students in reviewing material, and a series of discussion questions will help stimulate thought. The fifth edition includes figures and a complete updating of charts and statistics to reflect the changes and enhancements the Federal Bureau of Investigation has made to the Unified Crime Reports System including the implementation of the National Incident Based Reporting System and the abandonment of the crime index for a more reliable crime trend measure. The history of law enforcement has been expanded. Additional information on homeland security and its effect on the police is now included. New approaches to policing such as Problem-Oriented Policing (The POP Approach) and Intelligence-Led Policing are discussed. Issues of cyber crime, identity theft, accreditation, and new approaches to crime analysis and the police role in these issues are presented. This edition now includes information on prosecution standards, community prosecution, and prosecution abuse. The examination of historical court systems in Europe in general and Rome in particular has been expanded and we have clarified the dual nature of our legal system, both statute- and judge-made law. We have emphasized the concept of jurisdiction, and how it governs what cases courts hear. We have spotlighted the inter-relation between the courts functions and the other branches of the criminal justice system, the push-and-pull relationship between the theory of lawmaking, and the court practice. In the final chapter we highlighted the dilemma for courts caused by the intersection of politics, funding, media, and technology. A discussion on how radically modern information systems are changing the way courts work, and the court s ambivalence about the changes, is included. The expansion of community correctional programs has been noted. Prisoner radicalization and the terrorism threat it poses has been added as well as discussions on accreditation.

Introduction to Criminal Justice, Fifth Edition (Preview Edition)

David McElreath

Ronald Waldron

Chester Quarles

Michelle Waldron

and David Milstein

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