Full Description
Revised and updated to reflect recent research and statutory changes, the Ninth Edition of Sue Titus Reid's Criminal Justice Essentials provides a comprehensive and concise overview of the U.S. criminal justice system. * Represents the most thorough, legally accurate, and best-researched overview of the U.S. criminal justice system available today * Anchored within the framework of the legal system and consistently includes legal decisions as a basis for much of its direction * Accurately interprets the legal decisions which are cited * Features references to current affairs * Available in full color, including over 100 color photographs
Contents
Preface xiv Ancillaries xx Acknowledgments xxi About the Criminal Justice: An Overview 2 2 Crime, Offenders, and Victims 30 and Structure of Police Systems 70 4 Policing in a Modern Society 104 5 Problems and Issues in Policing 154 PART III PROCESSING A CRIMINAL CASE: CRIMINAL COURT SYSTEMS 195 6 Criminal Court Systems 196 7 Prosecution, Defense, and Pretrial Procedures 226 8 Trial, Sentencing, and Structure of Confinement 320 10 Life in Prison 352 11 Community Corrections, Probation, and Parole 400 PART V JUVENILE JUSTICE: A SPECIAL CASE 447 12 Juvenile Justice Systems 448 Appendices A. Amendments to the United States Constitution 501 B. How to Read a Court Citation 506 Glossary 508 Case Index 521 Name Index 524 Subject Index 528
