"This text is designed as a first course in criminal justice. It covers police, courts, and corrections, integrating the juvenile justice system." Includes slide presentations, vocabulary guides, and more. By Adam J. McKee.
Discusses the policy, process, and funding innovations and priorities that the United States needs to effectively reduce crime, recidivism, victimization, and cost
"Joseph F. Spillane examines the failure of progressive reform in New York State by focusing on Coxsackie, a New Deal reformatory built for young male offenders. Opened in 1935 to serve 'adolescents adrift,' Coxsackie instead became an unstable and brutalizing prison."
"This text provides edited and abridged cases that are intended to be easy to read and provide lower division students with a gentle introduction to key legal concepts that define the workings of our criminal justice system." By Adam J. McKee.
57 learning objects, including many in forensics -- e.g.: Collecting Biological Evidence, Dusting for Fingerprints, Spatter Drop Dynamics on Impact, DNA Collection Methods, etc. From WiscOnline.
This two-part PBS Frontline program "takes you to the epicenter of the raging debate about prison reform. Solitary Nation brings you an up-close, graphic look at a solitary confinement unit in Maine’s maximum security prison."