Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction - Softcover

Schmalleger, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130933503 ISBN 13: 9780130933508

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2002

Synopsis

Written by an author dedicated to making the subject of criminal justice interesting for students, this streamlined paperback focuses directly upon the crime picture in America and the three traditional elements of the criminal justice system: police, courts, and corrections. It uses real-life stories throughout that are designed to capture and sustain the attention of its readers and guide them towards achieving a meaningful and comprehensive understanding of the concepts covered in this dynamic field of study.

About this title

About the Author

FRANK SCHMALLEGER, Ph.D., is director of the Justice Research Association, a private consulting firm and think tank focusing on issues of crime and justice. The Justice Research Association, which is based in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, serves the needs of the nation's civil and criminal justice planners and administrators through workshops, conferences, and grant writing and program evaluation support. JRA also sponsors the Criminal Justice Distance Learning Consortium (CJDLC). CJDLC resides on the Web at http://cjentral.com/cjdlc

Dr. Schmalleger holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Ohio State University, having earned both a master's (1970) and a doctorate in sociology (1974) from Ohio State University with a special emphasis in criminology. From 1976 to 1994, he taught criminal justice courses at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. For the last 16 of those years, he chaired the university's Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice. As an adjunct professor with Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, Schmalleger helped develop the university's graduate program in security administration and loss prevention. He taught courses in that curriculum for more than a decade. Schmalleger has also taught in the online graduate program of the New School for Social Research, helping to build the world's first electronic classrooms in support of distance learning through computer telecommunications. An avid Web surfer, Schmalleger is also the creator of a number of award-winning World Wide Web sites, including one that supports this textbook (www.prenhall.com/schmalleger ).

Frank Schmalleger is the author of numerous articles and many books, including the widely used Criminology Today (Prentice Hall, 1999); Criminal Justice Today (Prentice Hall, 2001); Criminal Law Today (Prentice Hall, 1999); Corrections in the Twenty-First Century (Glencoe, 2001); Crime and the Justice System in America: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997); Trial of the Century: People of the State of California vs. Orenthal James Simpson (Prentice Hall, 1996); Computers in Criminal Justice (Wyndham Hall Press, 1991); Career Paths: A Guide to Jobs in Federal Law Enforcement (Regents/Prentice Hall, 1994); Criminal Justice Ethics (Greenwood Press, 1991); Finding Criminal Justice in the Library (Wyndham Hall Press, 1991); Ethics in Criminal Justice (Wyndham Hall Press, 1990); A History of Corrections (Foundations Press of Notre Dame, 1983); and The Social Basis of Criminal Justice (University Press of America, 1981).

Schmalleger is also founding editor of the journal, The Justice Professional. He serves as editor for the Prentice Hall series Criminal Justice in the Twenty-First Century, and as Imprint Advisor for Greenwood Publishing Group's criminal justice reference series.

Schmalleger's philosophy of both teaching and writing can be summed up in these words: "In order to communicate knowledge we must first catch, then hold, a person's interest―be it student, colleague, or policymaker. Our writing, our speaking, and our teaching must be relevant to the problems facing people today, and they must―in some way―help solve those problems."

From the Back Cover

Here it is! The new edition of Frank Schmalleger's Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction. With the release of this fourth edition, Prentice Hall has created the first introductory criminal justice text limited only by your students' curiosity. It is a book without borders. Take a look at the following new features all designed to give your students maximum learning potential in a new and fun way. Schmalleger is changing the way introductory criminal justice is leaned...again.

• WebExtras! These hyperlinks, build right into the text, take students to crime and justice-related Web sites. Interspersed throughout every chapter, WebExtras! Include the FBI's home page, a virtual tour of the U.S. Supreme Court, an in-depth history of the Columbine High School shootings, a special Macromedia Flash® presentation on "Crimes that shaped the Twentieth Century," and much more!
• Library Extras! These end-of-chapter Web-based "additional readings" lead students to Web-documents that expand on materials and concepts found in the text in a new and fun way. Included among the nearly 100 Library Extras! Found in the new edition are documents such as the new Challenge of Crime in a Free Society (1998), Perspectives on crime and Justice (1999), and Race, crime, and the Administration of Justice (1999).
• Web Quests! Found at the end of each chapter, these Web-based assignments are designed to teach students how to use the Internet to research topics and to find information in the criminal justice area.
• Audio Chapter Introductions. These chapter-specific audio introductions have been recorded by the author to provide additional insight into the workings of the justice system, and are available to anyone with an Internet connection and free RealPlayer® or MediaPlayer® software.

  The fourth edition includes new coverage of the Columbine High School shootings; the infamous hate-crime based Texas pickup-truck dragging death; the killing of Amadou Diallo, the 22 year old unarmed black West African immigrant who was shot at 41 times by white members of the NYPD; the Michigan murder conviction of Nathaniel Abraham, who was 11 years old at the time of the killing; the 1999 Wedgwood Baptist church shooting, and much more.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130933503
• ISBN 13: 9780130933508
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 460