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Inside Criminal Justice: Thinking about Police, Courts, and
Corrections provides students with a comprehensive and critical
exploration of the U.S. criminal justice system. Opening chapters
introduce criminal justice as a system, a career, and an academic
discipline; identify the main types of crimes in American
jurisprudence; define crime; and explain how the criminalization
process works. Additional chapters describe approaches to justice
in American society, criminal injustice, the complexities and
realities of police work, and police reform. Students learn about
democratic policing, police powers and the rights of citizens,
federal and state courts, the roles of prosecutors and judges in
the courtroom, defendants' rights, and the practices of criminal
defense attorneys. Sentencing, mass incarceration, institutional
corrections, community corrections, the death penalty, and juvenile
justice are covered. Learning outcomes, chapter summaries,
discussion questions, key terms, and references enrich the student
reading and learning experience. Inside Criminal Justice is
designed for introductory courses in criminal justice.
Thinking About Criminal Justice: A Reader helps students cultivate
greater levels of critical thinking skills and question
long-standing criminal justice policies and aspects of the criminal
justice system. The anthology presents readers with a tool called a
Critical Thinking Scan (CTS), which challenges them to analyze the
readings in the text from various angles and to focus internally to
push through their innate personal biases and consider new ideas
and viewpoints. The anthology is organized into four distinct
units. Unit I introduces critical thinking as an essential part of
criminal justice and addresses issues of racialized bias and
injustice within the discipline. Unit II invites student to
consider the types of assumptions they make about the seriousness
of certain types of crime and how these assumptions shape their
points of view. The readings examine white supremacist terror,
cybercrime, and voter fraud. In Unit III, students learn about the
intersection of racism, sexism, and the criminal justice system.
The final unit addresses good citizenship and the modern call for
criminal justice reform with articles that address police-community
interactions, sex work, sex trafficking, wrongful convictions, cash
bail, and the War on Drugs. Throughout, students are encouraged to
apply the CTS method developed by the editor to ask questions,
acknowledge bias, reason through logic, diversify thought, and
exhibit fair-mindedness. Thinking About Criminal Justice is a
thought-provoking and essential reader for programs and courses in
the discipline.
According to the Elliot Ness myth, which has been widely
disseminated through books, television shows, and movies, Ness and
the Untouchables defeated Al Capone by marshaling superior
firepower. In Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders, Dennis Hoffman
presents a fresh new perspective on the downfall of Al Capone. To
debunk the Eliot Ness myth, he shows how a handful of private
citizens brought Capone to justice by outsmarting him rather than
by outgunning him. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Hoffman
dissects what he terms a "private war" against Capone. He traces
the behind-the-scenes work of a few prominent Chicago businessmen
from their successful lobbying of presidents Coolidge and Hoover on
behalf of federal intervention to the trial, sentencing, and
punishment of Al Capone. Hoffman also reconstructs in detail a
number of privately sponsored citizen initiatives directed at
stopping Capone. These private ventures included prosecuting the
gangsters responsible for election crimes; establishing a crime lab
to assist in gangbusting; underwriting the costs of the
investigation of the Jake Lingle murder; stigmatizing Capone; and
protecting the star witnesses for the prosecution in Al Capone's
income tax evasion case. Hoffman suggests that as American society
continues to be threatened by illegal drugs, gangs, and widespread
violence, it is important to remember that the organized crime and
political corruption of Prohibition-era Chicago were checked
through the efforts of private citizens. Dennis E. Hoffman is an
associate professor of criminal justice at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha.
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