Book Title: Introduction to Criminal Justice
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Book Description: This OER covers law enforcement, criminal courts, sentencing, penal institutions, juvenile justice, criminological theory, and community-based sanctions. It also includes historical and contemporary perspectives on components of the criminal justice system, as well as the legal and constitutional frameworks in which they operate.
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This book provides a foundational basis of the U.S. Criminal Justice System. Students will gain familiarity with the workings of, and relationship between, the police, the courts, and the correctional system (both institutional and community). It also spends time discussing the development of criminological theory as it attempts to explain the causes of criminal behavior. While this book aims to give students a solid understanding of basic legal concepts and vocabulary, it will also take a socio-historical perspective that relates the evolution of US criminal justice to the contemporary structure of American society. Finally, this book is adapted to support the needs of students within the educational curriculum of the Louisiana Department of Education Board of Regents Dual Enrollment Program for high school students.
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This book is a cloned version of SOU-CCJ230 Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System by Alison S. Burke, David Carter, Brian Fedorek, Tiffany Morey, Lore Rutz-Burri, and Shanell Sanchez, published using Pressbooks by Open Oregon Educational Resources under a CC BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike) license. It may differ from the original.
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Introduction to Criminal Justice Copyright © 2024 by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Crime and criminology
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Introduction to Criminal Justice Copyright © 2024 by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
This book is an adaptation of Introduction to the U.S. Criminal Justice System Copyright © 2019 by Alison S. Burke, David Carter, Brian Fedorek, Tiffany Morey, Lore Rutz-Burri, and Shanell Sanchez licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.