Full Description
For courses in Critical Issues, Intro to Criminal Justice, Comparative Justice Courses, Courses on Terrorism, and Technology in Criminal Justice. This collection of readings is a one-of-a-kind-examining current policies, practices and issues impacting the field of criminal justice today. Leaving no stone unturned, contributing authors (all leaders in the field) explore a wide range of topics such as gangs, gender and race, war on drugs, terrorism, crime victims, correctional issues and computer-based technologies. Linking the past, present, and future of criminal justice, the authors discuss the issues currently impacting the system, the challenges that lie ahead, and their visions for how these issues will be handled in the next century.
Contents
PART IOVERVIEWCHAPTER 1The Future of Criminal Justice: Today and Tomorrow 1Roslyn Muraskin and Albert R. RobertsPART IICHAPTER 2Technoprison: Technology and PrisonsJanice JosephCHAPTER 3Criminal Justice and Forensic Science: Partnersin Solving CrimesEtta MorganCHAPTER 4"The World Is Flat": Globalization and Criminal JusticeOrganizations and Workplaces in the Twenty-First CenturyRosemary L. GidoPART IIICHAPTER 5Gangs: Etiology, Composition, Responses, and Police ImplicationsKennethJ. Peakand Oliver Miller, IIICHAPTER 6A Multilateral Approach to the Globalization of Gangs: TargetingMS 13 and Transnational GangsHaco Hoang and Robert J. MeadowsCHAPTER 7Homicide Victims, Their Families, and the Community 82Albert R. Roberts and Ann W. BurgessCHAPTER 8The War on Drugs: Treatment, Research, and SubstanceAbuse Intervention in the Twenty-First CenturyC. Aaron McNeece, Bruce Bullington, Elizabeth Mayfield Arnold,and David W. SpringerCHAPTER 9Identity Theft: An Overview of the ProblemKatherine SlosarikCHAPTER 10Juvenile Justice: Persistent Challenges; Promising StrategiesPeter J. Benekos and Alida V. MerloCHAPTER 11The Past, Present and Future of Waivers in Juvenile CourtsMichael P. BrownCHAPTER 12The Situation of Crime Victims in the Early Decades ofthe Twenty-First CenturyAndrew KarmenCHAPTER 13Murder and Mayhem in the Media: Media Misrepresentationof Crime and CriminalityRobert A. Jerin, Charles B. Field, and Ryan B. BakerCHAPTER 14Looking for a New Approach to an Old Problem: The Future ofObscenity and PornographyJay S. AlbaneseCHAPTER 15Militarism and Global PunishmentMichael HallettCHAPTER 16Getting Tough on Crime, Community Corrections, andSentencing PhilosophyEtta F. Morgan and Robert SiglerPART IVCHAPTER 17Advanced Technology, Enhanced Funding, andSpecialized Police Domestic Violence Programs inthe Twenty-First CenturyAlbert R. Roberts, Karel Kurst-Swanger, and Colleen O'BrienCHAPTER 18The Influence of Community-in Community Policingin the Twenty-First CenturyMichael J. PalmiottoCHAPTER 19Contemporary Policewomen: A Working TypologyMark Lanier and Kelly JockinCHAPTER 20Current and Future Practices and Strategies for ManagingPolice Corruption and IntegrityVincent E. Henry and Charles V. CampisiPART VLAWCHAPTER 21The Bill of Rights in the Twenty-First CenturyAlexander B. Smith (dec), Harriet Pollack, and Matthew MuraskinCHAPTER 22Trends in the Use of Capital Punishment: At the Dawnof the Twenty-First CenturyDavid V. BakerCHAPTER 23The U.S. Supreme Court and Capital Punishment: Past,Present, and FutureKenneth C. HaasCHAPTER 24Bias-Motivated Offenses: A Review of ProsecutorialInvestigation ReportsSilvina ItuarteCHAPTER 25The Evolution of the Local Prosecutor from CaseProcessor to Community Problem-SolverM. Elaine Nugent-Borakove and Gerard RainvillePART VICORRECTIONSCHAPTER 26Introduction and Overview of Correctional Counseling and TreatmentAlbert R. Roberts and Pia BiswasCHAPTER 27A Significant Challenge for Communities and Families in the Twenty-FirstCentury: The Reintegration Process for Prisoners Coming HomeDale J. BrookerCHAPTER 28Prisoner Reentry: Moving Beyond the Identification of Inmate NeedsUpon ReleaseMartha Henderson and Dena HanleyCHAPTER 29The Current Status of Inmates Living with HIV/AIDSMark M. Lanier and Roberto Hugh PotterCHAPTER 30Counting Children of Incarcerated Parents: A MethodologicalCritique of Past and Present LiteratureBahiyyah M. MuhammadPART VIITERRORISMCHAPTER 31Public Safety and Private Sector Responses to Terrorismand Weapons of Mass DestructionVincent E. Henry and Douglas H. KingCHAPTER 32Looking Back: Self-Interest and Terrorism Policy M. A. DuPont Morales and Jibey A. AsthappanCHAPTER 33Profiling and Detention in the War on Terror: Human RightsPredicaments for the Criminal Justice ApparatusMichael WelchPART VIIIGENDER, DIVERSITY AND THE LAWCHAPTER 34Women: Second-Class Citizens?Roslyn MuraskinCHAPTER 35The Response of the U.S. Supreme Court to Sexual HarassmentMartin L. O'ConnorCHAPTER 36The Administration of Justice Based on Gender and RaceEtta F. MorganCHAPTER 37Transgender Prisoners and Gender Identity DiscriminationJanice JosephPART IXEPILOGUESumming Up: The Twenty-First Century to DateRoslyn Muraskin
