Study Guide for Cole/Smith’s The American System of Criminal Justice, 11th - Softcover

Cole, George F.; Smith, Christopher E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495129402 ISBN 13: 9780495129400

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

An extensive student guide has been developed and updated for this edition by Christina DeJong of Michigan State University. Because students learn in different ways, the guide includes a variety of pedagogical aids to help them, as well as integrated art and figures from the main text. Each chapter is outlined and summarized, major terms and figures are defined, and worksheets and self-tests of approximately 60 questions per chapter are provided.

About this title

About the Author:

George F. Cole is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. He has been recognized for outstanding teaching and research and in 1995 was named a Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. A specialist in the administration of criminal justice, he has published extensively on such topics as prosecution, courts, and corrections. He developed and directed the graduate corrections program at the University of Connecticut and was a Fellow at the National Institute of Justice (1988). Among his other accomplishments, he has been granted two awards under the Fulbright-Hays Program to conduct criminal justice research in England and the former Yugoslavia. He is co-author of several other Cengage Learning/Wadsworth criminal justice titles, including CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN AMERICA, Eighth Edition (with Christopher Smith and Christina DeJong); AMERICAN CORRECTIONS, Eleventh Edition (with Todd Clear and Michael Reisig); AMERICAN CORRECTIONS IN BRIEF, Third Edition (with Todd Clear, Michael Reisig, and Carolyn Petrosino); and THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: POLITICS AND POLICIES, Tenth Edition (with Marc Gertz).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0495129402
• ISBN 13: 9780495129400
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288