Criminal Justice: Readings / Edition 1

by George S. Bridges, Joseph G. Weis, Robert D. Crutchfield

Overview

Presents the field accurately and completely in a way that is understandable to undergraduates. Includes a rich collection of carefully edited classic and contemporary articles. Contains framing essays written by the Editors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803990807
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/22/1996
Series:	Criminology and Criminal Justice Series , #2
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	500
Product dimensions:	7.38(w) x 9.12(h) x (d)

About the Author

George S. Bridges is the President of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. He has served as a staff member of the policy office of the Attorney General of the United States as well as deputy editor of Criminology. He has been a member of the Washington State Minority and Justice Commission. He has published many papers on racial biases in American law and is co-editor, with Martha Myers, of Crime, Inequality, and Social Control.

Joseph G. Weis is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. He served for a number of years as the Director of the National Center for the Assessment of Delinquent Behavior and Its Prevention, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as a member of the Washington State Governor’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee. He is a past editor of the journal Criminology and a co-author, with Michael J. Hindelang and Travis Hirschi, of Measuring Delinquency.