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
Crime data and social policy
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
National crime victimization survey (NCVS) Special categories of crime
Gender issues in criminal justice
Crime against the elderly
Corporate and white-collar crime
High-technology and computer crime
What is terrorist activity?
Nature and purpose 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 Corpus Delicti of a crime
Types of defenses to a criminal charge
4. Policing: purpose and organization
American policing today: from the Federal to the local level
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
The Kansas City experiment
Discretion and the individual officer
5. Policing: legal aspects
The abuse of police power
The Warren Court (1953-1969)
The Burger Court (1969-1986)
The Rehnquist Court (1986-2005)
Legal issues being raised in subway searches
Searches incident to arrest
Emergency searches of persons
Religion and public safety
The intelligence function
The Right to a Lawyer at interrogation
Suspect rights: the Miranda Decision
Gathering of special kinds of nontestimonial evidence
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
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
Terrorism's impact on policing
The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces
Intelligence-led policing and antiterrorism
Information sharing and antiterrorism
Common sources of civil suits
Racial profiling and biased policing
Is the LAPD's Community Mapping Project a form of religious profiling?
Professionalism and ethics
The Law Enforcement Code of Ethics
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.
History and structure of the American Court System
The International Criminal Court
Nonjudicial pretrial release decisions
8. The courtroom work group and the criminal trial
Career: Attorney and Instructor of Criminal Justice
Public defenders reject new cases
The American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct
The Trial Court Administrator
Outsiders: nonprofessional courtroom participants
Stages in a criminal trial
Pretrial and post-trial motions
Judge's charge to the jury
Jury deliberations and the verdict
Social networking among jurors is trying judges' patience
The philosophy and goals of criminal sentencing
Explanation of indeterminate sentencing
Critiques of indeterminate sentencing
Aggravating and mitigating circumstances
Federal sentencing guidelines
The legal environment of structured 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 in California
To what degree should the personal values of workers in the Criminal Justice System influence job performance?
Modern sentencing options
Death: the ultimate sanction
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?
10. Probation, parole, and community corrections
Culturally skilled probation officers
The Federal Probation System
Probation and parole: the pluses and minuses
Advantages of probation and parole
Disadvantages of probation and parole
Should DNA links to unsolved cases be used to deny parole?
The job of probation and parole officers
The challenges of the job
Career: Probation Officer
Shock probation and shock parole
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
The philosophy of imprisonment
California inmate release prompts public safety debate
Prison classification systems
The Federal prison system
American Jail Association Code of Ethics for Jail Officers
Arguments for and against the privatization of prisons
Research on prison life: total institutions
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
Social structure in women's prisons
Violence in women's prisons
The professionalization of Corrections Officers
The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons
American Correctional Association Code of Ethics
The legal basis of Prisoners' Rights
Censoring prison communications
A return to the hands-off doctrine?
Should prison libraries limit access to potentially inflammatory literature?
Issues facing prisons today: AIDS
Mentally ill and mentally deficient inmates
Feds target terrorist recruiting in prisons.
The Juvenile Justice System
Juvenile Justice through history
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
Juvenile courts versus adult courts
The Post-Juvenile Court Era
Appendix A: Bill of Rights
Appendix B: List of acronyms.
