Boyes-Watson, Carolyn.

Crime and justice : a casebook approach / Carolyn Boyes-Watson. - Boston, Mass. : Allyn and Bacon, 2003. - xx, 346 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

List of cases. - Preface. 1. Justice and the criminal justice system. Ch. 1. Crime, law, and justice. Ch. 2. The struggle for justice. Ch. 3. The justice process. Ch. 4. Understanding the crime picture. Ch. 5. Understanding criminal law. Ch. 6. Understanding victims. - Pt. 2. Enforcing the law. Ch. 7. Police and the law. Ch. 8. Beyond the limits of the law: police culture and the problem of violence. Ch. 9. The mission of policing in the twenty-first century. - Pt. 3. The judicial process. Ch. 10. The structure of the U.S. judiciary. Ch. 11. Players and plea bargains in the courtroom. Ch. 12. Trials and juries. - Pt. 4. Corrections and punishment. Ch. 13. Sentencing and justice. Ch. 14. Inside the prison world. Ch. 15. The community and corrections. - Appendix A: The Bill of Rights: the first ten amendments to the U.S. constitution. - Appendix B: Amendment XIV to the U.S. Constitution. - Appendix C: A victim's Bill of Rights. - Author index. - Subject index.

0205292135 (pbk.)


Criminal justice, Administration of--United States--Case studies.
Criminal law--United States--Cases.

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