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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.
The Philosophical and Ideological Underpinnings of Corrections
The Philosophical and Ideological Underpinnings of Corrections
What Is Corrections?
Corrections is a generic term covering a wide variety of functions carried out by government agencies (and, increasingly, by private ones) having to do with the punishment, treatment, supervision, and management of individuals who have been convicted of crime. These functions are implemented in prisons, jails, and other secure institutions, as well as in community-based agencies, such as probation and parole departments. As the term implies, the whole correctional enterprise exists to correct, amend, or put right the criminal behavior of its clientele. This is a difficult task because that which must be corrected has festered for ...
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