Pollock, Joycelyn M.,  1956- <br/><br/>
Crime and justice in America :  an introduction to criminal justice / 
 Crime & justice in America 
Joycelyn M. Pollock. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - Waltham, MA :  Anderson Pub.,  c2012. 
 - xiv, 436 p. :  ill. (some col.), col. maps ;  26 cm. 
<br/><br/> Rev. ed. of: Crime & justice in America : an introduction to criminal justice. c2008. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/> Criminal justice as social control --  Crime in society --  Why do people commit crime? --  Police in America --  Police operations --  Policing and the legal process --  Law and society --  Courts in America --  Due process : arrest through sentencing --  Juvenile justice and corrections --  The function of corrections --  Pretrial diversion and probation --  Prisons and jail --  Parole and reentry --  Looking toward the future : criminal justice in the twenty-first century. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781437735123 (pbk.)  RM147.11 1437735126 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.