Summary
Contents
Subject index
Critical Issues in Crime and Justice: Thought, Policy, and Practice provides an incisive overview of issues and perspectives in criminal justice and criminology designed to expand upon key areas of study. With contributed essays from leading scholars in the field, the Third Edition illustrates the breadth of research, policy, and practice implications in areas such as crime theory, law enforcement, jurisprudence, corrections, and criminal justice organization and management. New to this edition are chapters on wrongful convictions, human trafficking, and mental illness and criminal justice, three critical issues facing contemporary policing, courts, and corrections. The coverage of concepts, insights, voices, and perspectives will challenge criminal justice and criminology students to synthesize what they have learned, question standard interpretations, and begin to create new directions and visions for their future careers as professionals in the field.
Public Policy
Public Policy
Public policy shapes much of our everyday social life, from the way we get to school or work, to the breaks that students and employees are granted, to the sanitary conditions of the restaurant in which we eat, to the taxes and fees we pay to maintain our infrastructure, law enforcement agencies, and virtually all of our social services. Public policy has an extensive impact at federal, state, and local levels. This is particularly true for the criminal justice system practiced in the United States.
There are two versions of public policy: the formal, de jure (according to law), and the way in which it is actually practiced, de facto (in reality). Both will be explained ...
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