The Tenth Edition of Criminal Justice Essentials provides a comprehensive, yet manageable, overview of the U.S. Criminal Justice System. Revised and updated to reflect recent research and statutory changes, this text is one of the most thorough, legally accurate, and best-researched introductions to the U.S. criminal justice system available. Anchored within the framework of the legal system and using legal decisions as a basis for much of its direction, Reid offers an authoritative overview of the law enriched with real life examples of the criminal justice system in action.
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Revised and updated to reflect recent research and statutory changes, provides a comprehensive and concise overview of the U.S. criminal justice system.
Authoritative and comprehensive overview of the U.S. criminal justice system.
Includes legal decisions as a basis for much of the textual explanations. Accurately interprets the legal decisions and includes citations.
Features references to current affairs and developments to illustrate legal principles in action
Well-structured, teachable text. Pedagogy includes thoughtful learning objectives, chapter outlines and overviews, key terms with marginal definitions, and helpful charts and figures.
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About the authors
Sue Titus Reid
Professor
Reubin O#39;D. Askew School of Public Administration Policy, The Florida State University
Sue Titus Reid, a professor in the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy has taught law students, graduate students, and undergraduate students in many states. In 2000 she received a university teaching award at Florida State University. She served on the board of the Midwest Sociological Society and the executive staff of the American Sociological Association. She has served as chairperson, associate dean, and dean. In 1985 she held the prestigious George Beto Chair in criminal justice at the Criminal Justice Center, Sam Houston State University, Hunstville, Texas. Dr. Reid is unique among authors in the criminal justice field because of her distinguished qualifications in both law and the social sciences. Her first major publication, Crime and Criminology, 1976, now in its fourteenth edition, has been widely adopted throughout the United States and in foreign countires. Dr. Reid#39;s other titles include The Correctional System: An Introduction, and Criminal Law, eighth edition. She has contributed a chapter to the Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, as well as to other books, in addition to publishing scholarly articles in both law and sociology. Dr. Reid#39;s contributions to her profession have been widely recognized nationally and abroad. In 1982 the American Society of Criminology elected her a fellow quot;for outstanding contributions to the field of Criminology.quot;