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1.1. Crime and the Criminal Justice System Shanell Sanchez and Kate McLean Theft as a Child The first lesson in crime, criminality (and private property) I remember was when I was a toddler. Walking through the check-out at the supermarket, I began filling my play purse with candy. I knew that we had to buy items at the store – after all, my parents were paying for our food – but somehow it didn’t seem wrong to just take the candy. Since I made no effort to hide my theft, my parents stopped me,

Chapters

• 1.1. Crime and the Criminal Justice System
• 1.4. Consensus View and Decriminalizing Laws
• 1.6. The Four C’s: Cops, Courts, Corrections – and Citizens
• 1.7. The Crime Control and Due Process Models
• 1.9. Media Coverage of Crimes
• 1.10. Different Types of Crimes and Offenses
• 2.1. The Dark or Hidden Figure of Crime
• 2.3. Victimization Studies
• 2.4. Self-Report Statistics
• 2.5. Misuse of Statistics
• 3.3. Sources of Criminal Law: Federal and State Constitutions
• 3.4. Sources of Criminal Law: Statutes, Ordinances, and Other Legislative Enactm
• 3.5. Sources of Law: Administrative Law, Common Law, Case Law and Court Rules
• 3.7. Substantive Law: Defining Crimes, Inchoate Liability, and Accomplice Liabil
• 3.10: The Fourth Amendment
• 3.11. The Fifth Amendment
• 3.13. The Fourteenth Amendment
• 4.4. Levels of Policing and Role of Police
• 4.5. Recruitment and Hiring in Policing
• 4.7. Police Misconduct, Accountability, and Corruption
• 4.9. Police Accountability: Individual Prosecution
• 4.12. Police Accountability: Federal Interventions
• 5.3. Structure of the Courts: The Dual Court and Federal Court System
• 5.8. Courtroom Players: Prosecutors
• 5.7. Courtroom Players: Judges and Court Staff
• 6.1. Introduction to Sentencing in the U.S.
• 6.4. Presumptive Sentencing Guidelines
• 6.7. Other Sentences: Monetary Punishment
• 7.1. A Brief History of Punishment
• 7.3. Deterrence
• 7.5. Rehabilitation
• 7.6. A Brief History of Prisons and Jails
• 7.7. Who Goes to Jail?
• 7.8. Growth of Prisons in the United States
• 7.9. Types of Prisons
• 7.10. Prison Levels
• 8.1. What is diversion?
• 8.2. Intermediate Sanctions
• 8.3. Probation
• 8.5. Drug Courts
• 8.6. Halfway Houses
• 8.10. Parole
• 9.1. Trends in Youth Offending
• 9.2. Juvenile Justice Introduction
• 9.4. Invention of Delinquency
• 9.10. The Structure of the Juvenile Justice System
• 9.11. Juvenile Institutions
• 10.1. Current Issues: Mass Incarceration
• 10.2. Current Issues: The War on Drugs and Gangs
• 10.5. Current Issues: The Revolving Door

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