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Introduction to Criminal Justice: The Essentials (w/ Connected eBook)

  • Edition : 3rd ed., 2022
  • Author(s) : Winfree, Mays, Fiftal Alarid
    • ISBN: 9781543840261
    • SKU: 98810
    • Condition: New
    • Format: Paperback/Access Code

    $187.16

    List Price: $192.95

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    • SKU: 98810E
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Student-centric and informative without being encyclopedic, the revised Third Edition of Introduction to Criminal Justice: The Essentials, is a seamlessly original text that focuses on understanding how the nation’s criminal justice system functions. Drawing from deep wells of teaching experience, this author team has created the text that they’ve always wanted for their own classes. Students are able to grasp the material intuitively, while still being challenged to think, read, and write critically.

New to the Third Edition:

  • Thoroughly updated, addressing current concerns in criminal justice. New and expanded topics include:
    • Examination of police use of deadly force
    • Challenges to qualified immunity
    • The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the corrections system
    • Discussion of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol
    • Meanings of “Defunding the Police”
    • The Black Lives Matter movement and its impact on police
  • New Uniform Crime Reports and transitioning to the National Incident-Based Reporting System
  • Updated crime figures and other criminal justice-related statistics.