Description
Book SynopsisThe Student Study Guide accompanying the ninth edition of Sue Titus Reid''s Criminal Justice Essentials provides a comprehensive resource to aid and enhance student learning. Including chapter outlines, key concepts, and a variety of study questions and answer, the Student Study Guide offers the ideal complement to Criminal Justice Essentials.
- 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
- Utilizes references to current affairs
- Available in full color, including over 100 color photographs
Table of ContentsIntroduction vi
Part I Introduction to Criminal Justice Systems 1
1 Criminal Justice: An Overview 2
2 Crime, Offenders, and Victims 22
Part II Entry into Criminal Justice Systems: Policing 43
3 The Emergence and Structure of Police Systems 44
4 Policing in a Modern Society 62
5 Problems and Issues in Policing 82
Part III Processing a Criminal Case: Criminal Court Systems 99
6 Criminal Court Systems 100
7 Prosecution, Defense, and Pretrial Procedures 118
8 Trial, Sentencing, and Appeal 140
Part IV Confi nement and Corrections 161
9 The History and Structure of Confinement 162
10 Life in Prison 180
11 Community Corrections, Probation, and Parole 198
Part V Juvenile Justice: A Special Case 219
12 Juvenile Justice Systems 220
Appendix Answers to the Questions 238
