Crime and Justice : A Casebook Approach

by Boyes-Watson, Carolyn

• ISBN13: 9780205292134
• ISBN10: 0205292135
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

This highly innovative new book covers concepts, critical issues, and real-life dilemmas through an in-depth exploration of fifteen historical and contemporary case studies in crime and justice. Crime and Justice: A Casebook Approach invites readers to critically evaluate the evolving meaning and administration of justice within the U.S. through extended examination of the victims perspective, historical reforms, current innovations, and alternative perspectives on justice. Issues of race, class, and gender inequality are considered through multiple cases combined with the legal and policy developments resulting from reform. Current debates within the emerging field of community and restorative justice are viewed in the context of earlier reforms and public policy debate. Readers are encouraged throughout the cases to evaluate and re-evaluate their own sense and understanding of justice. For anyone interested in learning more about our criminal justice system!

Table of Contents

I. JUSTICE AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.

1. Crime, Law, and Justice.
Case 1. A 17th Century Crime Wave: The Salem Witch Trials.

2. The Struggle for Justice.
Case 2. The Scottsboro Trials.

3. The Criminal Justice Process.
Case 3. The Spectacle of Crime: The Willie Norton Case.

4. Understanding the Crime Picture.
Case 4. The Queen of Mean: The Fall of Leona Helmsley.

5. Principles of the Criminal Law.
Case 5. Accident or Homicide? The shooting of Yoshi Hattori.

6. Understanding Victims in the Criminal Justice System.
Case 6. Facing the Demons: Making Amends for Drunk Driving.

II. ENFORCING THE LAW.

7. Police and the Rule of Law.
Case 7. A Border Search for Drugs.

8. Beyond the Limits of the Law: Police Brutality, Corruption and Crime.
Case 8. The Rodney King Case.

9. The Mission of Policing in the 21st Century.
Case 9. A Woman in Charge: The Case of Chief Paula Meira.

III. THE JUDICIAL PROCESS.

10. The Structure of American Judiciary.
Case 10. The Poor Man in Court: The Case of Clarence Gideon.

11. The Players in the Courtroom.
Case 11. Bargaining for Justice: Bordenkircher v. Hayes.

12. Trials and Juries.
Case 12. Juries and Judgment: The Case of Reginald Dennies.

IV. CORRECTIONS AND PUNISHMENT.

13. The Justice of Sentencing.
Case 13. The Crime of Punishment: The Case of Kemba Smith.

14. Inside the Prison World.
Case 14. Surviving Time: The Case of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter.

15. The Community and Corrections.
Case 15. Circles of Hope: Transformation and Justice.