Issues in criminal justice : a reader for critical thought / M.L. Dantzker and Rosalva Resendiz, editors.

This text provides students with scholarly articles that address a variety of challenges within the criminal justice system.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Dantzker, Mark L., 1958- (Editor) Resendiz, Rosalva (Editor)
Language:	English
Published:	San Diego, CA : Cognella, Inc., [2021]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Criminal justice, Administration of > United States. Juvenile justice, Administration of > United States. Punishment. Prison-industrial complex. Police. Victims of crimes.
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction
Reading Unit 1: The criminal justice system
Reading 1.1: Criminal justice sites reflect intense national concerns
Reading 1.2: On management in criminal justice
Reading 1.3: Criminal justice and economics of crime
Reading 1.4: Accounting for justice: the U.S. criminal justice system will benefit from a new tool that collects and compares data on a county-by-county basis
Reading 1.5: Elaborating the prison industrial complex: race, class, gender and social control
Reading 1.6: How Mexican cartels are changing the face of immigration
Reading 1.7: The border industry
Unit I critical thinking questins
Unit 2: The Police
Reading 2.1: Unhinged hatred of the police: it has a long, sordid history
Reading 2.2: From Watts to Ferguson: the riot is still the "language of the unheard"
Reading 2.3: The etiquette of police brutality
Reading 2.4: Spotlight on police culture: seeing the red flags of organizational cultures gone wrong
Reading 2.5: The gender of police violence
Reading 2.6: Will the widespread use of police body cameras improve police accountability?
Reading 2.7: Who do you protect, who do you surveil?
Reading 2.8: Gender and policing: critical issues and analysis
Unit II critical thinking questions
Unit 3: The judicial System
Reading 3.1: How judges respond to the racial composition of their constituencies
Reading 3.2: Workflow software solutions: document management, e-filing and beyond ... into The Cloud
Reading 3.3: Domestic violence and the problem of courts
Reading 3.4: Veterans courts and diversion alternatives
Reading 3.5: Juvenile court and CTE: partnering for education and justice
Reading 3.6: Mental health courts try to impose treatment
Unit 3 critical thinking questions
Unit 4: Punishment and corrections
Reading 4.1: Redefining the criminal justice system
Reading 4.2: The budget case for criminal justice reform
Reading 4.3: Gender-focused resources: for criminal justice and corrections practitioners
Reading 4.4: Pennsylvania empowers women in criminal justice
Reading 4.5: Unpacking the crisis: women of color, globalization, and the prison-industrial complex
Reading 4.6: Correctional corruption: investigation reveals abuse in Florida's private prison industry
Reading 4.7: Cage complex: Why is America's prison population soaring?
Reading 4.8: An introduction to the Prison Rape Elimination Act
Unit 4 critical thinking questions
Unit 5: Juvenile justice
Reading 5.1: The cycle of reform and retrenchment in juvenile justice
Reading 5.2: Globalization and juvenile life sentences: creating meanful opportunities for release of juvenile offenders
Reading 5.3: New practices in juvenile justice
Reading 5.4: Gendered decision-making practices in the juvenile justice system
Reading 5.5: The value of alternative therapies in mental health treatment for incarcerated youths
Reading 5.6: Novel drugs of abuse
Unit 5 critical thinking questions
Unit 6: Victimology
Reading 6.1: At the intersections:race, gender and violence
Reading 6.2: Elder abuse and the criminal justice system
Reading 6.3: Peer victimization and resilience among LGBT youth
Reading 6.4: The drug addict as a victim: a link to explore
Reading 6.5: Crime and victimization among Latinas
Reading 6.6: "Between a Rock and a Hard Place": the plight of irregular Central American migrants
Unit 6 critical thinking questions
Conclusion.