Suchergebnisse

"Many students are attracted to the study of criminal justice because it provides a focus for the tension that exists within our society between individual rights and freedoms, on the one hand, and the need for public safety, security, and order, on the other. Recently, twenty-first-century technology in the form of social media, smartphones, and personal online videos, has combined with perceived injustices in the day-to-day operations of the criminal justice system, culminating in an explosion of demands for justice for citizens of all races and socioeconomic status-especially those whose encounters with agents of law enforcement turn violent. A social movement that began with the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, has developed into a widespread initiative that demands justice for all"--

"Criminal justice is a dynamic field of study. Consider these challenges for instructors and students trying to keep pace with a field that is undergoing continual modification: the ever-evolving nature of crime, our changing understanding of justice, police--community relations in an age of social media, budgetary constraints, ongoing threats to our nation's security,newly enacted statutes, innovations in enforcement and justice-system technology,precedent-setting U.S. Supreme Court decisions, a changing American society, and rapidly emerging innovations in correctional practice"--

Online predatory child victimization & exploitation -- Sexual addiction to the Internet: from curiosity to compulsion (Pittaro) -- Pedophilia, pornography, and stalking: analyzing child victimization Ion the Internet (Jaishankar/Halder/Ramdoss) -- Internet child sexual exploitation: offenses, offenders, and victims (Huang) -- Cyberbullying: a transnational perspective (Jaishankar & Shariff) -- Internet crimes: youth and children (Raghavan/Ranjan/Veddy) -- Emerging global crimes of the Internet -- Online pharmaceutical sales and challenges for law enforcement (Finley) -- Charges without borders: consumer credit card fraud in Ghana (Davison) -- Regulating cyberstalking (Basu/Jones) -- Internet gambling (Geiss/Brown/Pontell) -- Nature and distribution of phishing (Stroik/Huang) -- You can't cheat an honest man: Making ($$

"What makes behavior deviant and who gets to decide what deviance is? Deviant Behavior seeks to answer these questions and more. This compelling text is for undergraduate students who are curious about the social forces that shape deviance, the motivations and consequences of deviant behaviors, and how our definition of deviance changes over time. Authors Jack Humphrey and Frank Schmalleger discuss a wide range of deviant behaviors - from criminal acts to extreme forms of typical behavior - and provide the necessary foundation to understand the impact of globalization on traditional and emerging forms of deviance. Students will explore deviance in our modern world using a systematic application of social and criminological theories to a range of deviant behaviors, including cyberdeviance and positive deviance, to help them better understand themselves, others, and their society"--

Part 1 -- Adolescence and Delinquency -- The Measurement and Nature of Delinquency The Nature and Extent of Delinquency -- Part 2 -- Individual Causes of Delinquency -- Social Structural and Social Process Theories of Delinquency -- Social Interactionist Theories of Delinquency Causes of Delinquency -- Part 3 -- Gender and Delinquency -- Families and Delinquency -- Schools and Delinquency -- Gangs and Delinquency -- Special Juvenile Offender Populations Environmental Influences on Delinquency -- Part 4 -- An Overview of Juvenile Justice in America -- Police and the Juvenile -- Juvenile Court -- Juvenile Corrections

Introduction to corrections. Corrections: an overview -- Corrections today: evidence-based corrections and professionalism sentencing: to punish or to reform? -- Community corrections. Probation: how most offenders are punished -- Intermediate sanctions and community corrections: between probation and incarceration -- Institutional corrections. Jails: way stations along the justice highway -- Prisons today: change stations or warehouses? -- Parole: early release and reentry -- The prison world. The staff world: managing the prison population the inmate world: living behind bars -- The legal world: prisoners' rights -- Special prison populations: prisoners who are substance abusers, who have HIV/AIDS, who are mentally challenged, and who are elderly.