Criminal Justice Essentials, Study Guide

The Student Study Guide accompanying the ninth edition of Sue Titus Reid's Criminal Justice Essentials provides a comprehensive resource to aid and enhance student learning. Including chapter outlines, key concepts, and a variety of study questions and answer, the Student Study Guide offers the ideal complement to Criminal Justice Essentials.

• Represents the most thorough, legally accurate, and best-researched overview of the U.S. criminal justice system available today
• Anchored within the framework of the legal system and consistently includes legal decisions as a basis for much of its direction
• Accurately interprets the legal decisions which are cited
• Utilizes references to current affairs
• Available in full color, including over 100 color photographs

Part I Introduction to Criminal Justice Systems 1

1 Criminal Justice: An Overview 2

2 Crime, Offenders, and Victims 22

Part II Entry into Criminal Justice Systems: Policing 43

3 The Emergence and Structure of Police Systems 44

4 Policing in a Modern Society 62

5 Problems and Issues in Policing 82

Part III Processing a Criminal Case: Criminal Court Systems 99

6 Criminal Court Systems 100

7 Prosecution, Defense, and Pretrial Procedures 118

8 Trial, Sentencing, and Appeal 140

Part IV Confi nement and Corrections 161

9 The History and Structure of Confinement 162

10 Life in Prison 180

11 Community Corrections, Probation, and Parole 198

Part V Juvenile Justice: A Special Case 219

12 Juvenile Justice Systems 220

Appendix Answers to the Questions 238

Sue Titus Reid, J.D., Ph.D., is a Professor at the Reubin O'Donovan Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. An accomplished scholar in both the social sciences and the law, her books include Crime and Criminology, Thirteenth Edition (2012); and Criminal Law: The Essentials (2009).

Revised and updated to reflect recent research and statutory changes, the Ninth Edition of Sue Titus Reid's Criminal Justice Essentials represents the most comprehensive yet concise overview of the major areas of various criminal justice systems - with a primary focus on U.S. federal and state systems. In addition to providing thorough coverage of how the criminal justice system functions, leading scholar and author Sue Titus Reid reveals the complex interrelationships of the various segments of the system. Utilizing a reader-friendly approach, Reid cuts through legal jargon to address the latest social science research, legal cases and appellate opinion, federal and state statutes, state and Congressional bills, and current events. The latest cases, statutes, and citations are included.