administration of criminal justice

Examines injustice and racial bigotry surrounding a rape that occurred in a small Florida town during the winter of 1957.

A comprehensive analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, featuring essays from some of the nation's most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.

Includes a wide range of opinions surrounding issues concerning trial by Internet.

"When the final gavel clapped in a rural southern courtroom in the summer of 1988, Willie J. Grimes, a gentle spirit with no record of violence, was shocked and devastated to be convicted of first-degree rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. Here is the story of this everyman and his extraordinary quarter-century-long journey to freedom."--Provided by publisher.

A guide for people looking to make a career change, with self-assessment questions, tips for repurposing current skills and gaining new ones, an overview of issues for career changers in different age groups, and profiles of such careers as administrative judge, bailiff, court reporter, lawyer, paralegal, and more.

Provides pro and con arguments for twenty issues in crime and criminology including gun control, marijuana legalization, racial profiling, and torture among other topics. All issues include a synopsis, postscript, and sources of additional information. Also includes biographical sketches of each contributing author.

A collection of fifteen essays that describe the negative impact of social media as people become virtual judges and juries, making snap judgments about other people's actions or statements without knowing all of the facts, and without giving others the benefit of the doubt.

Describes how computer science and coding are used in criminal justice careers; and examines how technology has changed crime itself and the ways that the criminal justice system has had to work to keep up with modern criminal practices.

"Determined to clear her father of the wrongful conviction for a gang-related crossfire death, thirteen-year-old Trell persuades a reporter and a lawyer to investigate the case and uncover the truth"--OCLC.

"... Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era. Johnson's Waron Poverty policies sought to foster equality and economic opportunity. But these initiatives were also rooted in widely shared assumptions about African Americans' role in urban disorder, which prompted Johnson to call for a simultaneous War on Crime. The 1965 Law Enforcement Assistance Act empowered the national government to take a direct role in militarizing local police. Federal anticrime funding soon incentivized social service providers to ally with police departments, courts, and prisons. Under Richard Nixon and his successors, welfare programs fell by the wayside while investment in policing and punishment expanded. Anticipating future crime, policy makers urged states to build new prisons and introduced law enforcement measures into urban schools and public housing, turning neighborhoods into targets of police surveillance. By the 1980s, crime control and incarceration dominated national responses to poverty and inequality. The initiatives of that decade were less a sharp departure than the full realizationof the punitive transformation of urban policy implemented by Republicans and Democrats alike since the 1960s."--Provided by publisher.