Crime and justice: learning through cases

"Crime and Justice" offers a comprehensive introduction to the U.S. criminal justice system through nineteen historical and contemporary case studies. Each chapter opens with an engaging case, followed by an explanatory chapter that teaches core concepts, key terms, and critical issues. The second edition has been revised and updated throughout. It features new chapters on terrorism, the war on drugs, and gender. It also expands coverage of white collar crime and victims' issues. New cases include Enron, the O.J. Simpson trial, Barbara Sheehan and Battered Women's Defense, the story of Al Capone, and more.<p> In this second edition, Carolyn Boyes-Watson, with contributors Susan T. Krumholz and Aviva M. Rich-Shea, enhance student learning through case studies that serve multiple learning objectives: cases explore sociological issues of race, class, gender, and power, while also teaching students the law and processes of the justice system. The book is excellent for not just Introduction to Criminal Justice courses, but also any course that introduces students to the concepts of crime and justice.

Revised edition of the author's Crime and justice : a casebook approach, published in 2003.

A seventeenth-century crime wave: the Salem witch trials : Crime, law and justice -- The Scottsboro trials: the struggle for justice -- Execution or self defense? When women kill their partners : The legacy of gender injustice -- A "run of the mill" crime: The justice process -- Winning at all costs: the rise and fall of Enron: Understanding the crime picture -- Accident or homicide: the shooting of Yoshi Hattori: Principles of the criminal law -- Facing the demons: making amends for drunk driving: Understanding victims in the criminal justice system -- Security or dignity: Rosa at the border: Police and the rule of law -- The thin blue line: Rodney King and the LAPD: Beyond the limits of the law -- A women in charge: the case of Paula Meara: the mission of policing in the twenty-first century -- A businessman of crime: the rise and fall of Al Capone: Prohibition and policing: Rethinking the war on drugs -- False patriots: the Oklahoma City bombing and the politics of fear: The impact of 9/11 on civil liberties and law enforcement -- It's never too late for justice: the prosecution of Edgar Ray Killen: The structure of the American judiciary -- Can corporations commit murder? The …