Annual Editions: Criminal Justice 06/07 - Brossura

Victor, Joseph; Naughton, Joanne

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ISBN 10: 0073515965 ISBN 13: 9780073515960

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2006

Riassunto

This thirtieth edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: CRIMINAL JUSTICE provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; a general introduction; brief overviews for each section; a topical index; and an instructor’s resource guide with testing materials. USING ANNUAL EDITIONS IN THE CLASSROOM is offered as a practical guide for instructors. ANNUAL EDITIONS titles are supported by our student website, www.dushkin.com/online.

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UNIT 1. Crime and Justice in America

1. What Is the Sequence of Events in the Criminal Justice System?, Report to the Nation on Crime and Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, January 1998

This report reveals that the response to crime is a complex process, involving citizens as well as many agencies, levels, and branches of government.

2. The Road to September 11, Evan Thomas, Newsweek, October 1, 2001

For a decade, America has been fighting a losing war against terrorism. This article chronicles the missed clues and missteps in a manhunt that is far from over.

3. Arraigning Terror, Rogers M. Smith, Dissent, Spring 2004

This article discusses the sweeping restructuring of the nation’s intelligence-gathering and coercive institutions that took place after September 11th, as well as the dangers to civil liberties that the Bush administration has ignored. Smith also deals with what can be done to provide procedural safeguards against abuses to our civil rights and liberties.

4. Global Trends in Crime, Gene Stephens, The Futurist, May/June 2003

This article makes the point that while crime varies around the world, as statistics show, new tactics have proved effective in the United States. To keep crime in check in the twenty-first century, we’ll need to get smarter, not just tougher.

5. The FBI’s Cyber-Crime Crackdown, Simson Garfinkel, Technology Review, November 2002

On one side, teen hackers and corrupt employees; on the other, the FBI’s computer-crime-fighting units. According to Simson Garfinkel, the U.S. government’s first line of defense against cybercrime and cyberterrorism is the FBI’s Computer Crime Squads, which form the heart of its new Cyber Division.

6. Toward a Transvaluation of Criminal ‘Justice’: On Vengeance, Peacemaking, and Punishment, Christopher R. Williams, Humanity and Society, May 2002

This essay reflects the author’s effort to understand the dynamics of anger, hate, and violence that permeate not only the system of criminal justice, but human relations on all levels. Williams believes that the institutions of law, politics, and media have an obligation to model practices that are conducive to social health, and such models would not entail attitudes of resentment, hatred, and revenge.

7. Enough Is Enough, Clifton Leaf, Fortune, March 18, 2002

Of all the factors that lead to corporate crime, none comes close to the role of top management in tolerating and even shaping a culture that allows for it. Accounting fraud often starts this way, and prosecutors can make these crimes too complicated. According to Clifton Leaf, they can be boiled down to basic lying, cheating, and stealing.

8. Counting Corporate Crooks, Stacy Horn, The New York Times, July 16, 2005

Just how big a problem is corporate crime? We have no idea if white collar crime is going up or down, despite the well-publicized cases of some high ranking officials in corporate America. In terms of the number of lives ruined and the cost to society as a whole, white collar crime might be more pervasive and devastating than murder.

9. Trust and Confidence in Criminal Justice, Lawrence W. Sherman, National Institute of Justice Journal, Number 248, 2002

The criminal justice system is a paradox of progress. It is less corrupt, brutal, and racially unfair than it has been in the past. It has also become more effective, with greater diversity in its staffing. Yet Americans today have less confidence in the criminal justice system than in many other institutions.

UNIT 2. Victimology

10. Ordering Restitution to the Crime Victim, OVC Legal Series, November 2002

This bulletin provides an overview of state laws addressing the rights of victims to receive court-ordered restitution from offenders in criminal cases.

11. Telling the Truth About Damned Lies and Statistics, Joel Best, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 4, 2001

We should not ignore all statistics or assume that every number is false. Some statistics are bad, but others are useful. Joel Best thinks that we need good statistics to talk sensibly about social problems.

12. Violence and the Remaking of a Self, Susan J. Brison, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 18, 2002

The horror and violence associated with the crime of rape is clearly evident in the words of Susan Brison as she describes her victimization, attempts at coping with the aftereffects, and the eventual remaking of herself into a survivor of this terrible crime.

13. The Counselor, Sara Catania, Mother Jones, July/August 2005

An estimated 73 percent of domestic violence assaults go unreported, largely because of women’s lack of faith in the system. Filing a report means dealing with a justice system that forces women to testify, bounces them between multiple courtrooms, and leaves them vulnerable. This article discusses the problem from the perspective of an advocate for battered women.

14. Strengthening Antistalking Statutes, OVC Legal Series, January 2002

Stalking is a crime of intimidation. Stalkers harass and even terrorize through conduct that causes fear and substantial emotional distress in their victims. Work must be done in the future to better protect stalking victims by strengthening antistalking laws, according to this U.S. Department of Justice report.

15. The Cybersex Offender and Children, Arthur Bowker and Michael Gray, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, March 2005

Cybersex offenders who target young people use computers for viewing, and sending and receiving child pornography, and when apprehended they will often attempt to justify their actions. This article describes types of offenders and their common defenses, because law enforcement must learn to understand such offenders in order to lay the groundwork for successful prosecutions.

UNIT 3. The Police

16. The NYPD’s War On Terror, Craig Horowitz, Newyorkmetro.com, February 3, 2003

Frustrated by the lack of help from Washington since September 11th, police commissioner Ray Kelly has created his own versions of the CIA and the FBI within the department, with officers being stationed globally. We will know if he has succeeded, says Craig Horowitz, if nothing happens.

17. Racial Profiling and Its Apologists, Tim Wise, Z Magazine, March 2002

Racial profiling cannot be justified on the basis of general crime rate data. But, according to Tim Wise, “unless and until the stereotypes that underlie [it] are attacked and exposed as a fraud, the practice will likely continue….” The fact remains that the typical offender in violent crime categories is white.

18. Ethics and Criminal Justice: Some Observations on Police Misconduct, Bryan Byers, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) Today, September/October 2000

Bryan Byers discusses police misconduct in terms of ethical violations as well as police departments’ responses to such behavior.

19. Community Policing: Exploring the Philosophy, David M. Allender, The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, March 2004

Confusion on the part of citizens, politicians, academics, and even law enforcement managers about what constituted community policing arose from the beginning, writes Allender. This article explains how understanding the concept of community policing can help law enforcement agencies design and implement successful programs.

20. The Blue Plague of American Policing, Robert A. Fox, Law Enforcement News, May 15/31, 2003

Cops are unhappy, which may lead to the reason why they commit suicide three times more often than other Americans. Cops suffer more depression, divorce more, and drink more. Police officers feel estranged from their departments and from a public that is eager to find a scapegoat for its own problems.

21. Talking With the Police, Jones Moy and Brent Archibald, The Police Chief, June 2005

In many communitites in this country, large numbers of adults have limited English-speaking skills, and misunderstandings and miscommunications between residents and police are common. This article looks at how a California police department grappled with the challenge of helping non-native English speakers understand common police procedures.

22. Suicide by Cop, Anthony J. Pinizzotto, Edward F. Davis, and Charles E. M...

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Book by Victor Joseph Naughton Joanne

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0073515965
• ISBN 13: 9780073515960
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240