Controversies in Criminal Justice: Contemporary Readings

This innovative volume provides two contrasting essays for each of sixteen criminal justice and criminology issues, including such provocative subjects as terrorism, guns and crime, and racial profiling. The essays present opposing viewpoints: one supports the issue, while the other disputes it.

The text also incorporates the following pedagogical features:
* An introduction of key concepts
* Critical thinking questions
* Internet websites for further research

• Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
• A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison
• Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy (Irwin Accounting)
• The Police: An Introduction (4th Edition)
• Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
• Scientific American Environmental Science for a Changing World
• Comparative Criminal Justice
• Constitutional Law for a Changing America; A Short Course
• Criminalistics: Forensic Science, Crime, and Terrorism
• Vold's Theoretical Criminology