Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 276 mm, Gewicht: 376 g
Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 276 mm, Gewicht: 376 g
Reihe: Annual Editions: Criminal Just
ISBN: 978-0-07-805127-2
Verlag: Dushkin Publishing
The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. Annual Editions volumes have a number of organizational features designed to make them especially valuable for classroom use: a general introduction; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; an annotated listing of supporting World Wide Web sites; Learning Outcomes and a brief overview at the beginning of each unit; and a Critical Thinking section at the end of each article. Each volume also offers an online Instructor's Resource Guide with testing materials. Using Annual Editions in the Classroom is a general guide that provides a number of interesting and functional ideas for using Annual Editions readers in the classroom. Visit www.mhhe.com/annualeditions for more details.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Annual Editions: Criminal Justice 12/13, Thirty-Sixth EditionPrefaceSeriesCorrelation GuideTopic GuideInternet ReferencesUnit 1: Crime and Justice in AmericaUnit Overview1. What Is the Sequence of Events in the Criminal Justice System?, Report to the Nation on Crime and Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, January 1998This report reveals that the response to crime is a complex process, involving citizens as well as many agencies, levels, and branches of government.2. Fire Away, Michael Grunwald, Time, January 24, 2011You might think attacks like the one in Tucson would lead to tougher gun restrictions, but you'd be dead wrong. Despite periodic spasms of attention after mass killings, gun control has made no headway at the federal or state levels.3. The Drug War Hits Central America, Economist, April 14, 2011The United States is involved in Central America's drug troubles not just because it helped cause them, but also because it will feel their consequences. Already the lethal combination of conflict and lack of opportunity is driving thousands of Central Americans to brave the threat of kidnap and extortion to migrate to the United States. More will follow if conditions worsen.4. Perverted Justice, Jacob Sullum, Reason, July 2011Two decades of ever-more-punitive sex crimes legislation have produced sentencing rules so bizarre and byzantine that the punishment for possessing images of sexually abused children can be more severe than the punishment for sexually abusing them.5. The Death of the War on Drugs, Lawrence T. Jablecki, PhD, The Humanist, September/October 2009Our war on drugs has created the still widely held belief that the users of illegal drugs are enemies to be conquered and destroyed. Fortunately, a fast growing number of Americans are starting to believe that this war and its harsh penalties are costing us far too much in both human and fiscal terms.6. The Guilt Market, Alexandra Natapoff, Reason, July 2011Criminal snitching threatens the integrity of the justice system. Informants can be powerful crime-fighting tools, providing inside information on all sorts of criminal activity, but the evidence they offer is notoriously unreliable—more than 45 percent of wrongful convictions in death penalty cases were due to false testimony from snitches.7. Universal Policing: Counterterrorism Lessons from Northern Ireland, Justin Schoeman, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, April 2010Lessons learned from counterinsurgency efforts in Northern Ireland incorporate fundamental principles both universal to people across the globe and capable of cutting through cultural lines. Therefore, they could be applied to similar battles against terror in Iraq and Afghanistan.Unit 2: VictimologyUnit Overview8. Telling the Truth about Damned Lies and Statistics, Joel Best, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 4, 2001We should not ignore all statistics or assume that every number is false. Some statistics are bad, but others are useful. Joel Best thinks that we need good statistics to talk sensibly about social problems.9. The Face of Domestic Violence, Amanda White as told to Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Ladies' Home Journal, March 2010This is a first-person account of a young woman, a victim of domestic violence, who stayed with a husband who beat her over and over again. She
