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Overview
With gripping photos, an engaging magazine-like format, and riveting examples straight from today's headlines, CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN ACTION: THE CORE, 7th puts you in the center of the action. Providing just the right depth of coverage, this succinct book uses vivid cases and current events to demonstrate the core principles of the American justice system at work. Available with InfoTrac Student Collections http://gocengage.com/infotrac.
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"This text's most important strength is its use of call-out material to help students relate the content of the chapter to real-world application."
"The Gaines & Miller Criminal Justice in Action text provides a well-rounded and insightful look at the Criminal Justice System. It's treatment of the system is thoroughly descriptive, while providing some reflection on current and controversial issues surrounding criminal justice in America. In addition, a variety of text and on-line supplements make the text easily accessible to most undergraduate students."
"The text is a superb treatment of the material as is. I believe one of its strengths is the timeliness of its example and clarifying material."
"This is an up to date, comprehensive text with excellent classroom resources. The students will find it easy to read and comprehend."
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Meet the Author
Larry Gaines is chair of his department and a longtime, well-known figure in the field, both as an educator and in law enforcement. Highly respected and well-liked in the discipline, he is also a former law enforcement officer whose experience has resulted in a book with powerful "cop appeal."
Roger LeRoy Miller studied at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago. He has been on the staff of a number of universities, including the University of Washington, Clemson University, and the University of Miami School of Law, where he taught, among other subjects, intellectual property and entertainment law. He has published in the Insurance Counsel Journal, Defense Research, California Trial Lawyers Journal, Antitrust Bulletin, Wisconsin Law Review, and Connecticut Law Review. He has authored or co-authored numerous textbooks, including BUSINESS LAW: TEXT & CASES--LEGAL, ETHICAL, GLOBAL, AND E-COMMERCE ENVIRONMENT, THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT: TEXT & CASES--ETHICAL, REGULATORY, GLOBAL, and E-COMMERCE ISSUES, BUSINESS LAW TODAY, AND THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT TODAY.
Table of Contents
1. Criminal Justice Today. 2. Causes of Crime. 3. Inside Criminal Law. 4. Law Enforcement Today. 5. Challenges to Effective Policing. 6. Police and the Constitution. 7. Courts and the Quest for Justice. 8. The Criminal Trial. 9. Punishment and Sentencing. 10. Probation and Community Corrections. 11. Prisons and Jails. 12. Behind Bars: The Life of an Inmate. 13. The Juvenile Justice System. 14. Today's Challenges in Criminal Justice.