Crime and Justice: Learning Through Cases

by Carolyn Boyes-Watson

Book Overview

Crime and Justice offers a comprehensive introduction to the U.S. criminal justice system through nineteen historical and contemporary case studies. Each chapter opens with an engaging case, followed by an explanatory chapter that teaches core concepts, key terms, and critical issues. The second edition has been revised and updated throughout. It features new chapters on terrorism, the war on drugs, and gender. It also expands coverage of white collar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442220899
• ISBN13: 9781442220898
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 518 Pages
• Weight: 2.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 18 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

A better textbook than most novels!

I enjoyed this textbook and its casebook approach. It included major cases in history that defined law as well as current cases of interest in the last 10 or so years. There were a lot of references towards ethnic bias in the book as well as mentioning the responsibility to make life equal and impartial for gender and races in the criminal justice system. The questions at the end of the chapter led to serious thought and ideas of how you would behave in the jury's shoes or as a prosecutor.

Just like they said!

This book was exactly what I needed and wanted. Brand new with no highlights and no bent or torn pages.