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1.1. Crime and the Criminal Justice System
Shanell Sanchez
1.2. Deviance, Rule Violations, and Criminality
1.3. Social Norms: Folkways, Mores, Taboo, and Laws
1.4. Interactionist View
1.5. Consensus View and Decriminalizing Laws
1.6. Conflict View
1.7. The Three C’s: Cops, Courts, and Corrections
1.8. The Crime Control and Due Process Models
1.9. How Cases Move Through the System
1.10. Media Coverage of Crimes
1.11. Wedding Cake Model of Justice
1.12. Street Crime, Corporate Crime, and White-Collar Crime
1.13. Different Types of Crimes and Offenses
1.14. Victims and Victim Typologies
1.15. Victim Rights and Assistance
1.16. "Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child" Myth/Controversy
2.1. Dark or Hidden Figure of Crime
2.2. Official Statistics
2.3. Victimization Studies
2.4. Self-Report Statistics
2.5. Misusing Statistics
3.1. Functions and Limitations of Law
Lore Rutz-Burri
3.2. Civil, Criminal, and Moral Wrongs
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, Accomplice Liability, and Defenses
3.8. Substantive Law: Punishment: Incarceration and Confinement Sanctions
3.9. Substantive Law: Physical Punishment Sentences
3.10. Substantive Law: Monetary Punishment Sentences
3.11. Substantive Law: Community-Based Sentences
3.12. Procedural Law
4.1. Importance of Policy in Criminal Justice
Alison S. Burke
4.2. The Myth of Moral Panics
4.3. The Stages of Policy Development
4.4. Importance of Evidence Based Practices
4.5. Re-Evaluating Policy
5.1. What is Theory?
Brian Fedorek
5.2. What Makes a Good Theory?
5.3. Pre-Classical Theory
5.4. Classical School
5.5. Neoclassical
5.6. Positivist Criminology
5.7. Biological and Psychological Positivism
5.8. The Chicago School
5.9. Strain Theories
5.10. Learning Theories
5.11. Control Theories
5.12. Other Criminological Theories
6.1. Policing in Ancient Times
Tiffany Morey
6.2. Sir Robert Peel
6.3. Policing Eras
6.4. Levels of Policing and Role of Police
6.5. Recruitment and Hiring in Policing
6.6. Recruitment and Hiring Websites for Future Careers
6.7. Police Misconduct, Accountability, and Corruption
6.8. Current Issues: Police Shootings
6.9. Current Issues: Use of Force and Vehicle Pursuits
6.10. Current Issues: Stereotypes in Policing
6.11. Current Issues: Accountability
6.12. Current Issues: Internal Affairs and Discipline
6.13.Current Issues: Body Cameras
6.14. Myth: “Police Only Write Speeding Tickets to Harass Citizens and it is Entrapment.”
7.1. Introduction to the U.S. Court System
7.2. Jurisdiction
7.3. Structure of the Courts: The Dual Court and Federal Court System
7.4. Structure of the Courts: State Courts
7.5. American Trial Courts and the Principle of Orality
7.6. The Appeals Process, Standard of Review, and Appellate Decisions
7.7. Federal Appellate Review of State Cases
7.8. Courtroom Players: Judges and Court Staff
7.9. Courtroom Players: Prosecutors
7.10. Courtroom Workgroup: Defense Attorneys
8.1. A Brief History of The Philosophies of Punishment
David Carter
8.2. Retribution
8.3. Deterrence
8.4. Incapacitation
8.5. Rehabilitation
8.6. Prisons and Jails
8.7. A Brief History of Prisons and Jails
8.8. Types of Jails
8.9. Who Goes to Jail?
8.10. Growth of Prisons in the United States
8.11. Types of Prisons
8.12. Prison Levels
8.13. Who Goes to Prison?
10.1. Youth Crime
10.2. Juvenile Justice
10.3. History of the Juvenile Justice System
10.4. Delinquency
10.5. Juvenile Justice Process
10.6. Due Process in the Juvenile Court
10.7. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974
10.8. Getting Tough: Initiatives for Punishment and Accountability
10.9. Returning to Rehabilitation in the Contemporary Juvenile Justice System
10.10. The Structure of the Juvenile Justice System
10.11. Juvenile Institutions
9.1. Diversion
9.2. Intermediate Sanctions
9.3. Probation
9.4. Boot Camps/Shock Incarceration
9.5. Drug Courts
9.6. Halfway Houses
9.8. House Arrest
9.9. Community Residential Facilities
9.10. Restorative Justice
9.11. Parole
9.12. Current Issues in Corrections
9.13. Current Issues in Corrections: Mass Incarceration
9.14. Current Issues in Corrections: War on Drugs and Gangs
9.15. Current Issues in Corrections: Aging and Overcrowding
9.16. Current Issues in Corrections: Reentry and the Future of Corrections
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SOU-CCJ230 Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System Copyright © 2019 by Alison S. Burke, David Carter, Brian Fedorek, Tiffany Morey, Lore Rutz-Burri, and Shanell Sanchez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.