Crime and justice: learning through cases

Crime and Justice offers a comprehensive introduction to the U.S. criminal justice system through historical and contemporary case studies. Extensively revised and updated, the second edition features new chapters on terrorism, the war on drugs, and gender, as well as expanded coverage of white collar crime, victims' issues, and more. Powerful case studies engage students while teaching critical concepts.

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 corporation…