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

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

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

• 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)
• Policing Colonial America
• Law Enforcement Goes High‐Tech
• Should Police Take DNA Samples?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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