Criminal Justice in Action: The Core [with LMS Integrated for MindTap Criminal Justice Access Code]

by Larry K. Gaines, Roger LeRoy Miller

Using up-to-the-minute, vivid applications from today's headlines in a magazine-like design, CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN ACTION: THE CORE offers students the most exciting, accessible, and applied book available for the introduction to criminal justice course. With just the right amount of coverage for your fast-paced course and correlated with superb media tools, this concise book does, indeed, place students in the center of the action. The book reaches students by utilizing stories and case studies that are familiar to them (or that shock them), and by providing information on the latest career options available to them with a degree in criminal justice. Combining the practical experience of Larry K. Gaines with Roger Miller's legal expertise and feedback from more than 100 reviewers and survey respondents, CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN ACTION: THE CORE, Fourth Edition, is organized and designed from the ground up to meet professor needs.

Genres: School, Nonfiction, Textbooks

Unbound

First published August 17, 1999

Reviews

[Chloe Bright · Rating 4 out of 5]

a pretty good textbook

[Isaac · Rating 2 out of 5]

good

[Silas · Rating 3 out of 5]

A helpful book for those interested in learning the basics of the current U.S. criminal justice system, but a textbook is but a textbook.

[~jessie~ · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was the assigned text for a community college level Intro to Criminal Justice course I was enrolled in in Spring of 2011. Some info was already dated but as mentioned at the very end of the last chapter "the criminal justice system ten years from now will not be exactly the same as the one you have learned about in this textbook." However this book organized info in a really intuitive natural flow way that made each week's assigned reading enjoyable and interesting. It does provide the reader with "a strong grasp of the fundamentals of the criminal justice system."

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

very good beginners book into criminal justice. not difficult to read.