NCJ Number
174565
Date Published
1998
Length
736 pages
Annotation
This text is intended to introduce students to the study of crime and the administration of justice, with emphasis on the human dimensions, interpersonal relationships, and interactions that compose the daily activities of the criminal justice system and criminal justice processes.
Abstract
Individual sections examine the psychological, social, and economic impacts of crime; the definitions of conventional, economic, computer, telecommunication, organized, political, and consensual crime; the administration of justice; and future criminal justice needs. Additional sections explain the substantive criminal law, the law of criminal procedure, the rights of the accused, the nature and distribution of crime and its victims, crime causes theory, and drug law offenses and drug policies. Further sections discuss police operations, issues and trends in policing, the dynamics of the criminal court, and case processing. Other sections focus on sentencing, jails and detention, correctional institutions, alternatives to institutionalization, juvenile delinquency, and the juvenile justice system. Figures; tables; photographs; chapter discussion questions, notes, and reference lists; and index