Intro to Criminal Justice Practice & Process

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A practical and applied introduction to criminal justice Introduction to Criminal Justice: Practice and Processshows you how to think practically about the criminal justice system by offering you a proven, problem-based approach to learning. Bestselling authors Kenneth J. Peak and Tamara D. Madensen draw on their many years of combined practitioner and academic experience to explain the importance of criminal justice and show how key trends, emerging issues, historical background, and practical lessons can be applied in the field. New to the Third Edition: An emphasis on constitutional policing, legitimacy, and procedural justicestresses the importance for police to develop a "guardian" mindset over a "soldier" mindset. New discussions of contemporary criminological theories--such as social structure theories, social process theories, social conflict theories, feminist theories, and environmental criminology theories.