Criminal Justice

• The Structure of Criminal Justice
• The Process of Criminal Justice
• The Politics of Criminal Justice
• Which Model? Crime Control or Due Process

• Citizen Participation
• Rights Consciousness and Civil Liberties
• Racial Disparities
• Is the Criminal Justice System Racist?

• Definitions of Crime
• Types of Crime
• Part I Offenses
• Drugs and Crime
• Guns and Crime
• Does Gun Control Reduce Crime?

• Sources of Criminal Law
• The Nature of Criminal Law
• Functions of Criminal Law
• Legal Elements of a Crime
• Legal Defenses, Justifications for Crimes
• The Limits of Criminal Law
• Should Drugs Be Legalized?

• Policing Colonial America
• Developing the New Police
• Frontier Justice
• Progressive Police Reform
• Crime Control Decades (1919–1959)
• Policing the Social Crises of the 1960s
• Crime Control Revisited (1970s–1990s)
• Law Enforcement Goes High‐Tech
• Should Police Take DNA Samples?

• The Nature of Police Work
• Police Systems
• Police Organization
• Police Strategies
• Does Community Policing Prevent Crime?

• Criminal Procedure and the Constitution
• The Right to Privacy
• The Exclusionary Rule
• Fifth Amendment: Right to Remain Silent
• Citizens' Rights: A Barrier to Justice?

• Police Perjury
• Police Brutality
• Deadly Force
• Police Corruption
• Employment Discrimination
• Affirmative Action: A Tool for Justice?

• State Courts
• Federal Courts
• Heavy Caseloads and Delay
• Judges
• Remove Judges Who Are “Soft on Crime”

• Introducing Defendants' Rights
• The Pretrial Process
• The Trial Process
• The Posttrial Process
• Should Plea Bargaining Be Abolished?

• Introducing the Prosecutors
• Types of Prosecutors
• Prosecutorial Discretion
• Important Relationships for Prosecutors
• Case‐Management Policies
• Prosecutorial Misconduct
• Headhunting: Effective in Organized-Crime Combat?

• Introducing the Defense Attorneys
• The Adversary Justice System
• Types of Defense
• Defense Strategies
• Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
• Do Most Defense Attorneys Distort Truth?

• Theories of Punishment
• Types of Sentences
• Sentencing Statutes and Guidelines
• Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished?

• Prisons
• Prisoners' Rights
• Can Imprisoning More Criminals Cut Crime?

• Juveniles' Responsibilities and Rights
• A Separate System for Juveniles
• Minorities in Juvenile Justice
• Myths About Juvenile Justice
• Should Juveniles Be Tried as Adults?