First published in 1972, this classic text helped define how research affects policy in the criminal justice
system. The new Ninth Edition provides a unique balance of the enduring classics in the development of criminal
justice policy, with the most current research from the field and debates from the halls of Congress. This 28-article
reader allows students to see research-framed debates discussed in our administration of justice. Flexible in its
design, this work promotes a more critical understanding of the structure and function of the criminal justice
system, but it also invites attention to critical cross cutting themes, such as discretion, occupational role conception,
the sources of power and authority inside institutions, and how the public may impact our choices of laws and the
way laws are written.
Benefits:
NEW! Current issues addressed in this edition include intimate violence, death penalty, urban crime, gun control
in America, crime policy and the legislative process, sentencing practices, terrorism, and prisoner reentry.
Each section provides suggestions for future readings, emphasizing easily accessible reader friendly choices
to help students understand the context of criminal justice.
NEW! An Introduction to each Part explains the timelines of significant events or broad institutional changes
in each of the areas of criminal justice. Each introduction has been updated to better explain elements of the
legislative process.
NEW! Each Part now ends with "Questions for Discussion", to help students integrate issues as they
are developed in each of the articles in that Part.
NEW! The previous edition's Part III, "Prosecution," and Part IV, "Defense Attorneys,"
have been combined in this Ninth Edition; new Part III is now entitled, "The Adversarial Process".
NEW! This text can be packaged with any Wadsworth textbook at a significant discount. Please contact your local
Thomson/Wadsworth sales representative for more details.
Cole, Gertz, and Bunger present an advanced look at the criminal justice system from both political and policy
perspectives, through the insight of a qualified and talented author team.
This reader contains concise introductions that point out concepts and doctrines, followed by articles that
integrate the concepts and show how they apply in the criminal justice system.
Each Part introduction highlights how this compilation explores the links between politics, law, culture, public
opinion, the media, and the criminal justice system.
The authors address contemporary areas of law, including debates in policy-making on school shootings, media
coverage of violence, police use of force, three strikes sentencing the legalization of drugs, urban crime, gun
control, and the death penalty.
Table of Contents
Part I: POLITICS AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.
1. Two Models of the Criminal Process by Herbert L. Packer.
2. Racial Politics, Racial Disparities, and the War on Crime by Michael Tonry.
3. The Media, Moral Panics and the Politics of Crime Control by Ted Chiricos.
4. Criminal Justice, Legal Values and the Rehabilitative Ideal by Francis A. Allen.
Part II: POLICE.
5. Police Discretion Not to Invoke the Criminal Process: Low Visibility Decisions in the Administration of Justice
by Joseph Goldstein.
6. Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling.
7. A Sketch of the Policeman''s "Working Personality" by Jerome H. Skolnick.
8. The Preventative Effects of Arrest on Intimate Partner Violence by Christopher D. Maxwell, Joel H. Garner and
Jeffrey A. Fagan.
9. Police Use of Deadly Force: Research and Reform by James J. Fyfe.
Part III: THE ADVERSARIAL PROCESS.
10. The Decision to Prosecute by George F.Cole.
11. Adapting to Plea Bargaining: Prosecutors by Milton Heumann.
12. The Practice of Law as Confidence Game: Organization Co-Optation of a Profession by Abraham S. Blumberg.
13. Indigent Defenders Get the Job Done and Done Well by Roger A. Hanson and Brian J. Ostrom.
Part IV: COURTS.
14. The Criminal Court Community in Erie County, Pennsylvania by James Eisenstein, Roy B. Flemming and Peter
F. Nardulli.
15. The Process is the Punishment: Handling Cases in a Lower Criminal Court by Malcolm M. Feeley.
16. Maintaining the Myth of the Individualized Justice: Probation Presentence Reports by John Rosencrance.
Part V: CORRECTIONS.
17. Between Prison and Probation: A Comprehensive Punishment System by Norval Morris and Michael Tonry.
18. Racial Disproportion in US Prisons by Michael Tonry.
19. The Society of Captives: The Defects of Total Power by Gresham M. Sykes.
20. Mature Coping: The Challenge of Adjustment in Contemporary Prisons by Robert Johnson.
21. Well-Governed Prisons are Possible by John J. DiIulio, Jr..
22. What Works? Questions and Answers About Prison Reform by Robert Martinson.
23. Reentry Reconsidered: A New Look at an Old Question by Jeremy Travis and Joan Petersilia.
Part VI: POLICY PERSPECTIVES.
24. Black Man''s Burden and the Death Penalty in America by Charles Ogletree.
25. Unintended Consequences of Politically Popular Sentencing Policy: The Homicide Promoting Effects of "Three
Strikes" in U.S. Cities (1980-1999) by Tomislav Kovandzic, John J. Sloan and Lynne M. Vieraitis.
26. An Overviewof Gun Control Policy in the United States by Gary Kleck.
27. Putting Justice Back into Criminal Justice: Notes for a Liberal Criminal Justice Policy by Samuel Walker and
George F. Cole.
