Courts: A Text/Reader - Couverture souple

Spohn, Cassia; Hemmens, Craig

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1412940648 ISBN 13 : 9781412940641

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Just published and already adopted at Penn State, Wright State University, and Western Michigan University!

Courts: A Text/Reader provides the best of both worlds- authored text sections with carefully selected accompanying readings that illustrate the questions and controversies legal scholars and court researchers are investigating in the 21^st century. The articles, from leading journals in criminology and criminal justice, reflect both classic studies of the criminal court system and state-of-the-art research, and often have a policy perspective that makes them more applied, less theoretical, and more interesting to both undergraduate and graduate students.

Key Features

• Begins with an introductory chapter that presents a succinct overview of the U.S. criminal court system and its processes, and briefly describes the organization and content of the book
• Features “How to Read a Research Article”-a perfect introduction to understanding how real-world research is organized and delivered in the journal literature-which precedes and is tied to the first reading in the book
• Includes a "mini-chapter” for each section, with figures and tables that present basic concepts and provide a background for the readings that follow
• Introduces students to cutting-edge research and classic studies of the criminal court system by leading scholars in the field in carefully selected, edited research articles
• Provides key terms, Web resources, and thought-provoking discussion questions for each section, along with questions for each reading to help students develop their critical thinking skills

Accompanied by High-Quality Ancillaries!

• Instructor Resources on CD include a test bank, PowerPoint slides for each section, classroom activities, and more. To request a copy, qualified adopters should contact SAGE Customer Care at 800-818-SAGE (7243) from 6am – 5pm, PT.
• A Student study site at www.sagepub.com/spohnstudy provides additional articles, self-study quizzes, e-flashcards, and more.

Intended Audience
This unique Text/Reader is primarily intended for undergraduate and graduate courses on the criminal court system and/or judicial processes.

To learn more about author Cassia Spohn, please click here.

Interested in a text/ reader for another criminology or criminal justice here? Explore other titles in the series.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Craig Hemmens holds a J.D. from North Carolina Central University School of Law and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University. He is Department Head and Professor in the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Missouri State University. In addition to being the series editor for SAGE's Text/Reader series in Criminology/Criminal Justice, Professor Hemmens has published several books, including Law, Justice and Society (Oxford University Press, (c)2009), Legal Guide for Police (Anderson, A(c)2011) and an Introduction to Criminal Evidence (Oxford University Press, A(c)2009). He has been nominated for several teaching awards, and is currently serving as the first Vice President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Cassia Spohn received her PhD in political science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1978. Prior to joining the faculty at Arizona State University, she was the Kayser Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where she served as Director of Graduate Studies for 12 years and as Department Chair for one year. Dr. Spohn is the author of How Do Judges Decide? Second Edition (SAGE, (c)2009), and co-author of Criminal Courts (SAGE, A(c)2010). She also is co-author of two books: The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America (Cengage, A(c)2007) and Rape Law Reform: A Grassroots Movement and Its Impact (Springer, A(c)1992). She has published more than 75 articles on topics such as the effects of race/ethnicity and gender on sentencing decisions, sentencing of drug offenders, prosecutors' charging decisions in sexual assault cases, and the deterrent effect of imprisonment. She is currently working on a project investigating case attrition and case clearances in sexual assaults reported to the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1412940648
• ISBN 13: 9781412940641
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 729
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible