Criminal justice 10th edition : a brief introduction / Frank Schmalleger.

Includes bibliographical references (pages N-1-N-32) and indexes.

pt. 1. Crime in America -- 1. What is criminal justice? -- Freedom or safety? : Clarence Thomas -- Criminal justice and basic fairness -- American Criminal Justice System -- Surveillance technology -- Due process and individual rights -- Evidence-based practice -- Cost-efficient criminal justice -- Multiculturalism and diversity in criminal justice -- 2. The crime picture -- Crime data and social policy -- The UCR/NIBRS Program (National Incident-Based Reporting system) -- "Flash robs" : social media phenomenon -- Race and the criminal justice system -- National crime victimization survey (NCVS) -- Special categories of crime -- Crime against women -- Gender issues in criminal justice -- Crime against the elderly -- Hate crime -- Corporate and white-collar crime -- Organized crime -- Gun crime -- Drug crime -- High-technology and computer crime -- Terrorism -- 3. Criminal law -- Nature and purpose of law -- Rule of Law -- Criminal law -- Statutory law -- Civil law -- Administrative law -- Case law -- Categories of crime -- Felonies -- Misdemeanors -- Should violent speech be free speech? -- Offenses -- Treason and espionage -- Inchoate offenses -- The criminal act (Actus Reus) -- Guilty mind (Mens Rea) -- Concurrence -- Corpus Delicti of a crime -- Defenses -- Alibi -- Justifications -- Multiculturalism and diversity : Islamic Law -- Excuses -- Procedural defenses.

pt. 2. Policing -- 4. Policing : purpose and organization -- Police mission -- Enforcing the law -- Apprehending offenders -- Preventing crime -- Preserving the peace -- Providing services -- Federal agencies -- Cost-efficient policing -- State agencies -- Local agencies -- Fusion centers -- Private protective services -- International police agencies -- Careers : security professional -- Police administration -- Chain of command -- The Watchman style of policing -- The Legalistic style of policing -- The Service style of policing -- Police-community relations -- Team policing -- Community policing -- Evidence-based policing -- The Kansas City experiment -- Discretion and the individual officer -- 5. Policing : legal aspects -- Abuse of police power -- The Rodney King incident -- Individual rights -- Search and seizure -- The Exclusionary Rule -- The Warren Court (1953-1969) -- The Burger Court (1969-1986) -- The Rehnquist Court (1986-2005) -- Plain-view requirements -- Careers : patrol officer -- Arrest -- Warrant for GPS tracking -- Emergency searches of persons -- Vehicle searches -- Religion and public safety -- Suspicionless searches -- High-technology searches -- Informants -- Police interrogation -- Right to a lawyer at interrogation -- The Miranda decision -- The Miranda warnings -- Nontestimonial evidence -- Electronic eavesdropping -- The USA Patriot Act of 2001 -- The USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 -- Presidential candidates debate the USA Patriot Act -- 6. Policing : issues and challenges -- Police personality and culture -- Corruption and integrity -- Policing a multicultural society -- The Law Enforcement Oath of Honor -- Drug testing of police employees -- Dangers of police work -- Violence in the line of duty -- Risk of disease and infected evidence -- Stress and fatigue among police officers -- Careers : police officer -- Terrorism's impact on policing -- FBI's Joint Terrorism Task forces -- Intelligence-led policing and antiterrorism -- Information sharing and antiterrorism -- The National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan -- Police civil liability -- Racial profiling and biased policing -- Religious profiling -- Deadly force -- Less-lethal weapons -- Professionalism and ethics -- Education and training -- The Law Enforcement Code of Ethics -- Recruitment and selection -- Ethnic and gender diversity in policing -- Women as effective police officers.

pt. 3. Adjudication -- 7. The Courts -- American Court System -- The State Court System -- The Federal Court System -- U.S. District courts -- U.S. Courts of Appeal -- The U.S. Supreme Court -- Pretrial activities -- Cost-efficient courts -- The International Criminal Court -- The Grand Jury -- Nonjudicial pretrial release decisions -- Preliminary hearing -- Arraignment and the plea -- 8. The courtroom work group and the criminal trial -- Professional courtroom actors -- The judge -- The prosecuting attorney -- Careers : assistant district attorney -- The defense counsel -- Careers : attorney and professor of criminal justice -- The American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct -- The bailiff -- Trial court administrators -- The court reporter -- The clerk of court -- Expert witnesses -- Nonprofessional courtroom participants -- Lay witnesses -- Jurors -- The victim -- The defendant -- Spectators and the press -- The criminal trial -- Procedure -- Trial initiation -- Jury selection -- Opening statements -- Presentation of evidence -- Pretrial and post-trial motions -- Closing arguments -- Judge's charges to the jury -- Jury deliberation and the verdict -- Social media pose new threats to keeping jurors isolated -- The bilingual courtroom -- 9. Sentencing -- Retribution -- Incapacitation -- Deterrence -- Rehabilitation -- Restoration -- Indeterminate sentencing -- Structured sentencing -- Federal sentencing guidelines -- Aggravating and mitigating circumstances -- Three-strikes laws -- Mandatory sentencing -- Alternative sentencing options -- Presentence investigation -- Careers : instructor of criminal justice -- Victims' rights -- Victims' rights in California -- Victim-impact statements -- Sentencing rationales -- Sentencing practices -- Fines -- Death -- Habeas Corpus review -- Capital punishment -- Genetic privacy.

pt. 4. Corrections -- 10. Probation, parole, and community corrections -- The Federal Probation System -- Culturally skilled probation officers -- Federal parole -- Probation and parole -- The legal environment -- Careers : probation officer -- Intermediate sanctions -- Split sentencing -- Shock probation and shock parole -- Shock incarceration -- Mixed sentencing and community service -- Intensive probation supervision -- Home confinement and remote location monitoring -- American Probation and Parole Association Code of Ethics -- Reentry policies -- GPS tracking -- 11. Prisons and jail -- Evidence-based corrections -- Philosophy of imprisonment -- Overcrowding -- Security levels -- Prison classification systems -- The Federal Prison System -- Women and jail -- Direct-supervision jails -- American Jail Association code of Ethics for jail officers -- Cost-efficient corrections and sentencing -- Private prisons -- 12. Prison life -- Total institutions -- Male inmate's world -- Prison subcultures -- Prison argot -- Prison lifestyles and inmate types -- Homosexuality and sexual victimization in prison -- Female inmate's world -- Parents in prison -- Gender-responsiveness -- Institutions for women -- Social structure in women's prisons -- Violence in women's prisons -- The staff world -- Professionalization of corrections officers -- Prison riots -- The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons -- American Correctional Association Code of Ethics -- Prisoners' rights -- Censoring prison communications -- Grievance procedures -- Hands-off doctrine -- Prison libraries -- AIDS -- Geriatric offenders -- Inmates with mental illness and intellectual disabilities -- Terrorism.

pt. 5. The Juvenile Justice System -- 13. Juvenile justice -- The Juvenile Court Era -- Categories of children in the Juvenile Justice System -- The legal environment -- Legislation concerning children and justice -- Bullying -- The legal rights of juveniles -- Adult and juvenile justice compared -- Adult criminal case processing versus the Juvenile Justice System -- Juvenile courts versus Adult courts -- Girls study group -- Post-juvenile court era -- Careers : juvenile justice professional.