This book offers a history of crime and the criminal justice system in America, written particularly for students of criminal justice and those interested in th

This updated second edition provides an overview of the origin and development of the American criminal justice system, from the founding of Jamestown, the firs

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Describes the special character of the American criminal justice system which stems from the high degree of direct and indirect popular influence over its admin