Introduction to the American Criminal Justice SystemThis introductory criminal justice textbook serves as a comprehensive resource for students to explore the key areas of the American criminal justice system. Students will examine the roles of the police, courts, corrections, and juvenile law. Additionally, the book introduces criminal theory, data, and legal principles. Beyond just studying these topics, students will have the opportunity to investigate potential careers and reflect on their roles and opinions within our legal system.
This text provides edited and abridged cases that are intended to be easy to read and provide lower-division students with a gentle introduction to key legal concepts that define the workings of our criminal justice system.
Welcome to Criminal Justice: An Overview of the System, an open educational resource (OER) textbook designed to provide students with a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the criminal justice system. This freely available online textbook embraces modern educational principles and best practices, offering the unique advantage of immediate reader feedback to refine and enhance the content continually.
This OER textbook is designed for an “introduction to criminal justice” class or a similar course. It is designed to provide a survey of the field, including police, courts, and corrections, to students with no background in criminal justice.
A resource providing sociological perspectives on criminological study and theories.
Criminology: Foundations and Modern ApplicationsCriminology – Students are introduced to theoretical explanations of crime, criminality, and society’s response to antisocial and law violating behavior. Theories of crime causation are used to understand crime patterns, evaluate trends, and understand how social scientific inquiry impact research, theory, and public policy.
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' Ferri was one of the first researchers interested in the study of crime statistics. While quite interested in Lombroso's biological determinism, Ferri consistently argued for a broader explanation of criminality. In particular, Ferri believed that social, economic, and political factors were important in attempting to develop a comprehensive theory of crime. Included among the factors were:
physical (race, climate, geographic location, seasonal effects, temperature)anthropological (age, sex, organic and psychological conditions)social (density of population, customs, religion, organization of government, economic and industrial conditions).
From these factors Ferri developed a fourfold typology of criminal types (insane, born, occasional, and criminal by passion) in this work
Introduction to Criminal Justice: Operations, Obstacles, and OutcomesIntroduction to Criminal Justice: Operations, Obstacles, and Outcomes is an Open Textbook that brings the foundations of the criminal justice system and current events and issues to an accessible format, where readers may interact with multimedia content in addition to traditional text.
Injustice at the Intersections: Race, Gender, Class, and Criminal JusticeInjustice at the Intersections is the first U.S.-based Open Textbook about race, gender, class, and criminal justice. While traditional textbooks are often expensive and require continuous publication of new editions to keep up with changing legislation and events, we wrote this Open Textbook under a CC BY-NC-SA license, meaning that instructors may revise, update, and change content as needed for changing events and different learning outcomes. We also plan to regularly update this Open Textbook and will always keep it free, as we believe that knowledge is the first step towards justice.
Crime: Crash Course Sociology #20We’ve talked about deviance more broadly, but today we’re focusing on crime, specifically in the US. We’ll start with legal definitions of crime and use FBI data to get an idea of the amount and kinds of crime committed in the US. We’ll also use that date to paint a demographic picture of who gets arrested, and explain why that’s not necessarily a full look of who commits crime. We’ll also discuss society’s response to crime in the criminal justice system, and how that response has resulted in mass incarceration.