pt. I: Crime in America

1. What is criminal justice?

Brief history of crime in America

Criminal justice and basic fairness

Due process and individual rights

The role of courts in defining rights

Crime control through due process

Evidence-based practice in criminal justice

Multiculturalism and diversity in criminal justice

2. The crime picture

Crime data and social policy

Collection of crime data

The UCR/NIBRS (National Incident-Based Reporting System)

Race and criminal justice system, pt. I, Identity theft: an new kind of larceny

Career: instructor of criminal justice

Offenses

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

What is terrorist activity?

Terrorism

3. Criminal law

Nature and purpose of law

The Rule of Law

Types of law

General categories of crime

Should violent speech be free speech?

General features of crime: the criminal act (Actus Reus), a guilty mind (Mens Rea), concurrence

Elements of a specific criminal offense

The example of murder

The Corpus Delicti of a crime

Types of defenses to a criminal charge

Islamic Law

Alibi

Justifications

Excuses

Procedural defenses.

pt. II: Policing

4. Policing: purpose and organization

The Police Mission

Enforcing the law

Apprehending offenders

Preventing crime

Preserving the peace

Providing services

American policing today: from the Federal to the local level

Federal agencies

State agencies

Local agencies

Fusion centers

Police administration

Police organization and structure

Fusion centers: Chain of command

Policing epochs and styles

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

The abuse of police power

The Rodney King incident

A changing legal climate

Individual rights

Checks and balances

Due process requirements

Search and seizure

The Warren Court (1953-1969)

The Burger Court (1969-1986)

The Rehnquist Court (1986-2005)

Plain-view requirements

Career: Patrol officer

Arrest

Legal issues being raised in subway searches

Searches incident to arrest

Emergency searches of persons

Vehicle searches

Religion and public safety

Suspicionless searches

High-technology searches

The intelligence function

Informants

Police interrogation

The Right to a Lawyer at interrogation

Suspect rights: the Miranda Decision

The Miranda Warnings

Gathering of special kinds of nontestimonial evidence

Electronic eavesdropping

The USA Patriot Act of 2001 and the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005

6. Policing: issues and challenges

Police personality and culture

Corruption and integrity

Policing a multicultural society

Money: the root of police evil?

Building police integrity

The Law Enforcement Oath of Honor

Drug testing of police employees

The dangers of police work

Police DNA collection sparks questions

Violence in the line of duty

Risk of disease and infected evidence

Stress and fatigue among police officers

Career: Police officer

Terrorism's impact on policing

The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces

Intelligence-led policing and antiterrorism

Information sharing and antiterrorism

Police civil liability

Common sources of civil suits

Federal lawsuits

Racial profiling and biased policing

Is the LAPD's Community Mapping Project a form of religious profiling?

Racially biased policing

Police use of force

Deadly force

Less-lethal weapons

Professionalism and ethics

The Law Enforcement Code of Ethics

Education and training

Recruitment and selection

Ethnic and gender diversity in policing

Investigating crime in a multicultural setting

Women as effective police officers

Private protective services

Do sex-offender websites spur vigilantism?

Integration of public and private security.

pt. III: Adjudication

7. The courts

History and structure of the 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

The first appearance

The International Criminal Court

Nonjudicial pretrial release decisions

The Grand Jury

The preliminary hearing

Arraignment and the plea

8. The courtroom work group and the criminal trial

The Judge

The Prosecuting Attorney

The Defense Counsel

Career: Attorney and Instructor of Criminal Justice

Public defenders reject new cases

The American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct

The Bailiff

The Trial Court Administrator

The Court Reporter

The Clerk of the Court

Expert witnesses

Outsiders: nonprofessional courtroom participants

Lay witnesses

Jurors

The victim

The defendant

Spectators and the Press

The criminal trial

Procedure

Nature and purpose

Stages in a criminal trial

Trial initiation

Jury selection

Opening statements

Presentation of evidence

Pretrial and post-trial motions

Closing arguments

Judge's charge to the jury

Jury deliberations and the verdict

Social networking among jurors is trying judges' patience

The bilingual courtroom

9. Sentencing

The philosophy and goals of criminal sentencing

Retribution

Incapacitation

Deterrence

Rehabilitation

Restoration

Indeterminate sentencing

Explanation of indeterminate sentencing

Critiques of indeterminate sentencing

Structured sentencing

Aggravating and mitigating circumstances

Federal sentencing guidelines

The legal environment of structured sentencing

Three-strike laws

Mandatory sentencing

Innovations in sentencing

Alternative sentencing options

Questions about alternative sanctions

The presentence investigation

Career: Instructor of Criminal Justice

The victim: forgotten no longer

Victims' rights

Victims' rights in California

To what degree should the personal values of workers in the Criminal Justice System influence job performance?

Victim-impact statements

Modern sentencing options

Sentencing rationales

Sentencing practices

Fines

Death: the ultimate sanction

Habeas Corpus review

Opposition to capital punishment

Justifications for capital punishment

The Courts and the death penalty

To execute or not: a question of cost?

The future of the death penalty

What are the limits of genetic privacy?

pt. IV: Corrections

10. Probation, parole, and community corrections

What is probation?

The extent of probation

Probation conditions

Culturally skilled probation officers

The Federal Probation System

What is parole?

The extent of parole

Parole conditions

Federal parole

Probation and parole: the pluses and minuses

Advantages of probation and parole

Disadvantages of probation and parole

The legal environment

Should DNA links to unsolved cases be used to deny parole?

The job of probation and parole officers

Job descriptions

The challenges of the job

Career: Probation Officer

Intermediate sanctions

Split sentencing

Shock probation and shock parole

Shock incarceration

Mixed sentencing and community service

Intensive probation supervision

American Probation and Parole Association Code of Ethics

Home confinement and remote location monitoring

The future of probation and parole

More sex offenders tracked by satellite

Changes in reentry policies

The reinvention of probation

11. Prisons and jails

Prisons

The philosophy of imprisonment

Overcrowding

Security levels

California inmate release prompts public safety debate

Prison classification systems

The Federal prison system

Recent improvements

Jails

Women and jail

The growth of jails

Direct-supervision jails

Jails and the future

American Jail Association Code of Ethics for Jail Officers

Private prisons

Arguments for and against the privatization of prisons

12. Prison life

Research on prison life: total institutions

The male inmate's world

The evolution of prison subcultures

Prison argot: the language of confinement

The functions of prison subcultures

Prison lifestyles and inmate types

Homosexuality and sexual victimization in prison

The female inmate's world

Gender responsiveness

Institutions for women

Social structure in women's prisons

Types of female inmates

Violence in women's prisons

The staff world

Facts and figures

The professionalization of Corrections Officers

The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons

American Correctional Association Code of Ethics

Prison riots

Causes of riots

Prisoners' rights

The legal basis of Prisoners' Rights

Censoring prison communications

Grievance procedures

A return to the hands-off doctrine?

Should prison libraries limit access to potentially inflammatory literature?

Issues facing prisons today: AIDS

Geriatric offenders

Mentally ill and mentally deficient inmates

Terrorism

Feds target terrorist recruiting in prisons.

The Juvenile Justice System

13. Juvenile Justice

Juvenile Justice through history

The Juvenile Court Era

The legal environment

Legislation concerning children and justice

The legal rights of juveniles

The Juvenile Justice process today

Adult and Juvenile Justice compared

Adult criminal case processing versus the Juvenile Justice System

The way the system works

Juvenile courts versus adult courts

The Post-Juvenile Court Era

Appendix A: Bill of Rights

Appendix B: List of acronyms.