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1.1 Crime and the Criminal Justice System
Shanell Sanchez; Kate McLean; and Pamela Simek
1.2 Deviance, Rule Violations, and Criminality
1.3 Interactionist View
Shanell Sanchez and Pamela Simek
1.4 Consensus View and Decriminalizing Laws
1.5 Conflict View
1.6 The Four C’s: Cops, Courts, Corrections - and Citizens
1.7 The Crime Control and Due Process Models
1.8 How Cases Move Through the System
1.9 Media Coverage of Crimes
1.10 Different Types of Crimes and Offenses
References
Brandon Hamann and Pamela Simek
2.1 What is a Theory?
Brandon Hamann
2.2 What Makes A Good Theory?
2.3 What is Criminology?
2.4 Where Do Criminological Theories Come From?
2.5 The Classical School of Criminological Theory
2.6 The Positivist School of Criminological Theory
2.7 The Chicago School of Criminological Theory
2.8 The Neoclassical School of Criminological Theory
2.9 The Contemporary School of Criminological Theory
2.10 Criminological Schools and Their Theories
3.1 Functions and Limitations of Law
Lore Rutz-Burri; Kate McLean; and Chantel Chauvin
3.2 Civil, Criminal, and Moral Wrongs
Lore Rutz-Burri and Chantel Chauvin
3.3 Sources of Criminal Law: Federal and State Constitutions
3.4 Sources of Criminal Law: Statutes, Ordinances, and Other Legislative Enactments
3.5 Sources of Law: Administrative Law, Common Law, Case Law and Court Rules
3.6 Classifications of Law
3.7 Substantive Law: Defining Crimes, Inchoate Liability, and Accomplice Liability
3.8 Substantive Law: Defenses
Kate McLean; Shanell Sanchez; and Chantel Chauvin
3.9 Procedural Law
Lore Rutz-Burri and Kate McLean
3.10 The Constitution
Chantel Chauvin
3.11 The First Amendment
3.12 The Second Amendment
3.13 The Fourth Amendment
Kate McLean and Chantel Chauvin
3.14 The Fifth Amendment
3.15 The Sixth Amendment
Chantel Chauvin and Lore Rutz-Burri
3.16 The Fourteenth Amendment
Chantel Chauvin and Kate McLean
4.1 History of Policing in New Orleans
Franklyn Scott
4.2 Sir Robert Peel
Tiffany Morey; Kate McLean; and Franklyn Scott
4.3 Levels of Policing and Role of Police
Tiffany Morey and Franklyn Scott
4.4 Recruitment and Hiring in Policing
4.5 Police Diversity and Recruitment
4.6 Police Misconduct, Accountability, and Corruption
4.7 Police Accountability: Internal Affairs and Discipline
4.8 Police Accountability: Individual Prosecution
4.9 Police Accountability: Body Cameras
4.10 Police Accountability: Federal Interventions
4.11 Police Accountability: Reducing Discretion
5.1 Introduction to the U.S. Court System
Lore Rutz-Burri
5.2 Jurisdiction
5.3 Structure of the Courts: The Dual Court and Federal Court System
5.4 Structure of the Courts: State Courts
5.5 American Trial Courts and the Principle of Orality
5.6 The Appeals Process, Standard of Review, and Appellate Decisions
5.7 Courtroom Players: Prosecutors
5.8 Courtroom Players: Judges and Court Staff
5.9 Courtroom Workgroup: Defense Attorneys
5.10 Putting It Together
Kate McLean
6.1 Introduction to Sentencing in the U.S.
6.2 Indeterminate Sentencing
Kate McLean; Lore Rutz-Burri; and Chantel Chauvin
6.3 Determinate Sentencing
6.4 Presumptive Sentencing Guidelines
Chantel Chauvin; Kate McLean; and Lore Rutz-Burri
6.5 Mandatory Minimums and Sentencing Enhancements
6.6 Other Sentences: Physical Punishment
6.7 Other Sentences: Monetary Punishment
6.8 Other Sentences: Community-Based Sentences
7.1 A Brief History of Punishment
David Carter; Michelle Holcomb; and Kate McLean
7.2 Retribution
David Carter; Kate McLean; and Michelle Holcomb
7.3 Deterrence
7.4 Incapacitation
7.5 Rehabilitation
7.6 A Brief History of Prisons and Jails
7.7 Who Goes to Jail?
7.8 Growth of Prisons in the United States
7.9 Types of Prisons
7.10 Prison Levels
7.11 Prisoner Rights
Michelle Holcomb and Kate McLean
7.12 Who Goes to Prison?
Michelle Holcomb
8.1 What is diversion?
8.2 Intermediate Sanctions
8.3 Probation
8.4 Boot Camps/Shock Incarceration
David Carter and Michelle Holcomb
8.5 Drug Courts
8.6 Halfway Houses
8.7 House Arrest
8.8 Community Residential Facilities
8.9 Restorative Justice
8.10 Parole
9.1 Trends in Youth Offending
Alison S. Burke; Michelle Holcomb; and Kate McLean
9.2 Juvenile Justice Introduction
9.3 History of the Juvenile Justice System
Alison S. Burke; Kate McLean; and Michelle Holcomb
9.4 Invention of Delinquency
9.5 Juvenile Justice System
9.6 Due Process Revolution in Juvenile Court
9.7 The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974
Alison S. Burke and Michelle Holcomb
9.8 Getting Tough: Initiatives for Punishment and Accountability
9.9 Returning to Rehabilitation in the Contemporary Juvenile Justice System
9.10 The Structure of the Juvenile Justice System
9.11 Juvenile Institutions
10.1 Current Issues: Mass Incarceration
David Carter and Brandon Hamann
10.2 Current Issues: The War on Drugs and Gangs
David Carter; Kate McLean; and Brandon Hamann
10.3 Current Issues: Aging and Overcrowded Prisons
10.4 Current Issues: Transcarceration
Brandon Hamann and Kate McLean
10.5 Current Issues: The Revolving Door
Brandon Hamann and David Carter
10.6 Current Issues: Terrorism in America
10.7 Cybercrime
10.8 Homeland Security
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