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“Order under Law”

Readings in Criminal Justice, Sixth Edition

 

Robert G. Culbertson and Ralph A. Weisheit

 

Students of criminal justice must deal with some of the most emotional and complex questions that confront our society: Does our criminal justice system discriminate against minorities? What is the proper goal of punishment? Is it moral and ethical for the state to take a life? Trying to find solutions to the wide array of problems surrounding crime in the United States is no small task. Scholars have closely scrutinized these issues over the past forty years and the result is a massive body of literature. Culbertson and Weisheit have focused on some of the major concerns that have emerged from it. Accessible to the general reader, the Sixth Edition reflects recent trends in criminal justice scholarship, emphasizing concerns raised by contemporary society. The editors have assembled fifteen readings, eight of them new to this edition, that illustrate the complexities of the police courts, and corrections.

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$25.95 list, 320 pages

10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-207-5

13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-207-5

© 2002

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“A valuable collection of both landmark readings and current studies that one day may make the landmark list.”  — Robert R. Wiggins, Cedarville University

 

Table of Contents

 

Section I. CRIME: An American Institution

1. Crime and the American Dream (Steven Messner and Richard Rosenfeld)

2. Fallacies About Crime (Marcus Felson)

3. Two Models of the Criminal Process (Herbert L. Packer)

Section II. JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE IN THE STREETS: The Police

4. Observations on the Making of Policemen (John Van Maanen)

5. Militarizing American Police: The Rise and Normalization of Paramilitary Units (Peter B. Kraska and Victor E. Kappeler)

6. Vice Isn’t Nice: A Look at the Effects of Working Undercover (Mark R. Pogrebin and Eric D. Poole)

7. An Afrocentric Perspective on Policing (Christopher Cooper)

Section III. CONFRONTATION AND COMPROMISE: The Courts

8. The Practice of Law as a Con Game (Abraham S. Blumberg)

9. A Critique of the Role of the Public Defender (Kenneth B. Nunn)

10. Guilty Plea Courts: A Social Disciplinary Model of Criminal Justice (Mike McConville and Chester Mirsky)

11. The Execution of the Innocent (Michael L. Radelet and Hugo Adam Bedau)

Section IV. CHANGE WITHOUT PROGRESS: Corrections

12. Blue Hairs in the Bighouse: The Rise of the Elderly Inmate Population (Nadine Curran)

13. Changes in Prison Culture (Geoffrey Hunt, Stephanie Riegel, Tomas Morales, and Dan Waldorf)

14. The Prison-Industrial Complex (Steven R. Donziger)

15. Why Are U.S. Incarceration Rates So High? (Michael Tonry)