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The Ninth Edition of CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN ACTION places you in the center of the action and helps you excel in your criminal justice course. You'll explore vivid real-life applications that clarify key concepts, and read about the many exciting new career opportunities that the field now offers. Chapter material will make sense, thanks to straight-from-the-headlines vignettes that show the relevance of upcoming discussions. Choosing what's important to remember is a snap with each chapter's numbered objectives, which are reinforced throughout the chapter as well as in the book's supplementary items.
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This textbook describes the criminal justice system, the police and law enforcement, criminal courts, corrections, and special issues, such as the juvenile justice system, cyber crime, and white-collar crime. This edition has new features on ethics challenges, criminal justice policy, and the decisions and discretion of criminal justice professionals. Other changes include new vignettes on chapter themes, examples of actual crimes, new figures, new discussion of recent Supreme Court decisions, more coverage of challenges involving the mentally ill, coverage of public scrutiny of police use of force, a new section on privacy vs. security, and other new and updated topics. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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