Introduction to Criminal Justice: Updated 4th Edition

by Robert M. Bohm, Keith N. Haley

This accessible yet comprehensive introduction to criminal justice in the United States has been dramatically updated and revised to include coverage of criminal justice's new, expanded role in the “war on terrorism” as well as to incorporate other recent developments, cases, and research in the field. Bohm and Haley have more than 50 years of combined experience in teaching introduction to criminal justice as well as working in criminal justice—Bohm as a correctional officer and Haley as a police officer.

An optional package combines the text with both PowerWeb and Reel Justice Interactive Movie CD-ROM.

Genres: Nonfiction

548 pages, Hardcover

First published January 2, 1996

Reviews

[Darrien Ashley]

3.5 stars. I had to read this book for a college course, and it honestly wasn’t the worse, but the last chapter kind of felt like it just took a sudden turn into a lens through “the Jetsons” tv show. It was pretty interesting and informative in a majority of the chapters though.

[Colleen]

As textbooks go, this one was pretty good. It's comprehensive enough to give students a good basic understanding of the history, theory, and practice of criminal justice in the United States. One feature of this book that I especially liked was the "Careers in Criminal Justice" blurbs throughout; various specific jobs in the field are described by people who actually hold those positions. This included what the job entails, what they like best and what they like the least, an outline of their own education, and usually a recommendation as to what someone may want to study or do if they are interested in pursuing that particular job as well. This is something I think should be a feature included throughout any introductory textbook; it would potentially be helpful to students who are unsure of what direction they may want to take, simply because they don't really know what kinds of jobs are really available.

[Carolyn Fuentes]

This book provides short description of the historical development of criminal law by breaking down some theories of victimization, criminal responsibility, measuring crimes and how they are reported, explanation of the criminal justice system, touches some basis on terrorism and cyber-crime, etc. Basically it covers fundamentals of the justice system.

[Matthew]

I had to read this for my Intro to Criminal Justice class. It was really just a lot of statistics so it was pretty boring. But there were some surprising and interesting things which were discussed.

[Julie Strawn]

It was interesting :)