• Flexible and cost-effective yet comprehensive, this is an excellent alternative to larger, often overwhelming texts
• Provides context and covers current issues and problems and operational challenges for each chapter's subject area
• Incorporates engaging pedagogical features including web activities, critical-thinking exercises, sidebars, and abundant examples

New to this Edition:

• All material has been updated to reflect the most recent data available
• Critical thinking exercises have been revised and new exercises added throughout
• Chapter 1 offers updated material on victims, social media, and the police use of force
• Chapter 2 includes a streamlined discussion of categories and degrees of offenses and additional material on excuses for criminal behavior
• Chapter 3 continues new discussions of the role of the police in society, deadly force, GPS technology, and the opioid problem
• Chapter 5 provides new material on the incarceration of women and on prisoner classification

  
A flexible and cost-effective alternative to larger texts, Criminal Justice: The Essentials,Fifth Edition, covers all the fundamental issues faced by law enforcement, the courts, corrections, and juvenile justice, leaving detailed specifics and tangential topics to the discretion of instructors to cover in class. With abundant examples--and just the right amount of sidebars and "highlights"--Criminal Justice, Fifth Edition, is the ideal resource for introducing students to the essential issues in the field.