Introduction to Criminal Justice: A Modern Approach - 1st Edition - Catherine D. Marcum

Introduction to Criminal Justice: A Modern Approach 1st Edition Catherine D. Marcum ISBN 9798892075619

Introduction to Criminal Justice: A Modern Approach offers a comprehensive and balanced examination of today’s U.S. criminal justice system, highlighting its structure, strengths, limitations, and ethical challenges. Organized around the system’s three core components—policing, courts, and corrections—the text provides a cohesive framework for understanding how these sectors operate individually and collectively.

Contemporary issues such as cybercrime, treatment courts, and reentry are woven throughout the book, ensuring relevance to current criminal justice debates. The text also explores the expanding role of technology in law enforcement, including body-worn cameras, surveillance tools, artificial intelligence, and drones, while addressing the accompanying ethical, legal, and privacy concerns. Engaging pedagogical features focused on ethics, careers, myths versus realities, and the role of minors in the justice system appear in every chapter and are reinforced with Thinking Critically questions that support class discussion and independent learning.

Professors and students will benefit from:

• A clear, learner-centered structure, with chapters organized into numbered sections and measurable learning objectives that define key takeaways for each topic

• Relevant cases and real-world examples that promote critical thinking about the facts, theories, and challenges shaping the U.S. criminal justice system

• Dedicated coverage of treatment courts in Chapter 10: Treatment Courts—A New Path to Justice and Rehabilitation, offering in-depth insight into this growing area

• A strong emphasis on active learning through innovative pedagogical features in every chapter, including:

  • Crime in Real Life, which encourages students to analyze real legal cases through guided questions and instructional videos available in the Connected eBook

  • Ethical Conundrums in CJ, Minors in CJ, Careers in CJ, and Myths vs. Realities in CJ, each paired with Thinking Critically questions to deepen understanding

  • Questions to Consider at the end of each major section, prompting reflection and synthesis of key concepts

• End-of-chapter materials that build critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills through discussion questions and applied learning activities

• Data literacy skill-building through analysis of figures, graphs, and tables featuring the most current criminal justice data, with Real-Time Data Exercises in eight of the thirteen chapters that guide students in locating, researching, and interpreting data from sources such as the FBI Crime Data Explorer, the Council on Criminal Justice, and the Vera Institute of Justice

Introduction to Criminal Justice: A Modern Approach 1st Edition Catherine D. Marcum ISBN 9798892075619, 979-8892075619 & 9798892075626

Authors
Catherine D. Marcum
Paul A. Lucas
Kweilin T. Lucas