Introduction to Criminal Justice - Softcover

Anderson, Patrick R.; Newman, Donald J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070019584 ISBN 13: 9780070019584

Publisher: McGraw-Hill College, 1992

Synopsis

The fifth edition of this introductory Criminal Justice text. The contents have been pared down to five parts and sixteen chapters to best explain the intricacies of criminal justice policy and practice. The book has been thoroughly updated by Patrick Anderson to cover developments in policing, corrections, the war on drugs, and to include introductory cases on field practice, the criminal justice system in practice, the ideological framework of crime control, and discussions of criminological theory and crime punishment.

About this title

About the Author:

Pat Anderson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Florida Southern College and has taught at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Florida Junior College in Jacksonville and the Northeast Florida Criminal Justice Training and Education Center. Professor Anderson has a unique background with additional degrees in English literature, philosophy, and theology and has worked as a jail officer, juvenile probation case worker and supervisor, police and corrections trainer and an expert witness. The past few years he has consulted with police departments in Eastern Europe, including Romania.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0070019584
• ISBN 13: 9780070019584
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 479