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Now in its second edition, Criminal Justice: Mainstream & Crosscurrents offers a contemporary textbook option for your Introduction to Criminal Justice course. Building upon John Fuller’s experience as a criminal justice practitioner, scholar and teacher, the book asks students to think about the goals and processes of the criminal justice system and introduces them to important ethical dilemmas faced by criminal justice professionals. Using an enhanced crosscurrents theme, it shows the complexities of the criminal justice discipline and encourages students to think critically about alternative ways of enforcing law and determining justice in the United States.
Hallmark Features
Crosscurrents boxes–highlight contemporary cases and events that illustrate how unpopular laws, under budgeted agencies, and honest mistakes all contribute to a less than perfect justice system.
Focus on Ethics boxes–present complex, real-life dilemmas that require the student to consider the balancing of values, procedures, and the law when coming up with solutions.
Case in Point boxes–summarize major court cases that are the bedrock of the criminal justice system.
A full chapter on crime theory–see Chapter 3.
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Highlights the various sociological, psychological and biological theories of crime causation.
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Gives students a solid foundation in criminological theory so they see how theories impact criminal justice policies and procedures.
A unique chapter on emerging trends in criminal justice–see Chapter 16.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. The Problem of Social Control
2. The Nature and Measurement of Crime
3. Theories of Crime
4. Criminal Law
5. History and Organization of Law Enforcement
6. Policing and the Law
7. Issues in Policing
8. Role of the Courts
9. Working in the Courtroom
10. The Disposition: Plea Bargaining, Trial, and Sentencing
11. History of Control and Punishment
12. Contemporary Prison Life
13. Corrections in the Community
14. Problems in the Crosscurrents
15. Victimless Crimes
16. Present and Emerging Trends: The Future of Criminal Justice
About the Author(s)
John Randolph Fuller has been a professor of criminology at the University West Georgia for more than 27 years. He brings both applied in theoretical background with scholarship has been recognized by his students and peers as an outstanding teacher and scholar. In 1991 the student Government Association at West Georgia voted him Arts and Sciences Faculty Member of the Year. In 2002, the Student Honors Council recognized him as the Honors Professor of the Year. In 2006, he was selected for the Distinguished Scholar Award by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University West Georgia. Additionally, in 2006 and was designated as a Governor's Teaching Fellow in recognition of his commitment to students and innovative teaching techniques.
Dr. Fuller has served as a probation and parole officer for the Florida Probation and Parole Commission, working in Broward County, Florida, where he managed a caseload of more than 100 fellows. In addition, he served as a criminal justice planner for the Palm Beach County Metropolitan Criminal Justice Planning Unit. In this capacity he worked with every criminal justice agency in a three county area and grants Law-Enforcement Assistance Administration that funneled more than $1 million into local criminal justice agencies. By working directly with offenders as a probation and parole officer and with criminal justice administrators as a criminal justice planner, Dr. Fuller has gained significant insights that inform his writing about the criminal justice system and have aided him in identifying both the mainstream practices and in the crosscurrent problems that continue to prevent the achievement of justice for all.
Dr. Fuller has authored and edited numerous journal articles, chapters, and books and criminal justice, criminology, and juvenile delinquency. In 2009 he published Juvenile Delinquency: Mainstream Crosscurrents which extends the theme of this book into the juvenile justice system. The first edition of Criminal Justice: Mainstream Crosscurrents won the prestigious TEXTY award from The Text and Academic Authors Association.
Backcover Copy
Now in its second edition, Criminal Justice: Mainstream & Crosscurrents offers a contemporary textbook option for your Introduction to Criminal Justice course. Building upon John Fuller’s experience as a criminal justice practitioner, scholar and teacher, the book asks students to think about the goals and processes of the criminal justice system and introduces them to important ethical dilemmas faced by criminal justice professionals. Using an enhanced crosscurrents theme, it shows the complexities of the criminal justice discipline and encourages students to think critically about alternative ways of enforcing law and determining justice in the United States.
Previous Editions
- Criminal Justice: Mainstream and Crosscurrents
- Fuller
- ISBN-10: 013112255X • ISBN-13: 9780131122550
- ©2006 • Cloth, 624 pp • Out of Print
- More info
Published: 2/17/2009
Paper
Pages: 608
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