Policies and Practices
Rather than providing students with “the answers,” Making Sense of Criminal Justice: Policies and Practices, Third Edition, challenges them to think critically about how the criminal justice system deals with challenging situations – like the use of force by the police – and offers a framework for lively classroom discussions and debates. G. Larry Mays and Rick Ruddell
- Encourages students to think critically about controversial issues like the death penalty and gun control
- Examines the confluence of the criminal justice system, politics, and policy making
- Engages students with an approachable writing style
- Invites upper-level students to apply their pre-existing knowledge of police, courts, and corrections to specific points of interest
- Stand-alone chapters allow professors to tailor the chapter order according to their needs
New to this Edition:
- Offers an expanded focus on evidence-based practices
- A new Chapter 3, Understanding Criminal Justice Policy, provides more in-depth coverage of several policies and policy-analysis tools than the previous edition
- Chapter 5, Police and the Use of Force, covers several of the high-profile cases involving the shooting of racial minorities (particularly African Americans) by the police in several locations
- Chapter 9, Gender and Justice, expands on issues of violence against women, including responding to sexual assaults on campus and untested sexual-assault kits
- Chapter 15, Security Versus Liberty in the 21st Century, considers questions of privacy versus the expanded use of surveillance techniques by governments at all levels
- Provides revised and expanded Critical Review Questions for each chapter
- Includes five suggested writing assignments for each chapter
Authors: G. Larry Mays and Rick Ruddell
Edition: 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780190679279
Publisher: Oxford University Press
