Criminal Justice: Quick Reference

Series:  Key Issues in Crime and Punishment

Each volume contains good chapters on key subtopics.  Gives subtopic introduction, overview, and pro and con discussion.  Very readable language. 

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Covers every major subject and is selected from a range of reference types - including general and subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, bibliographies, chronologies, handbooks, atlases, and more. In addition to allowing individual searches for topics you are researching, includes a large number of already prepared topic pages.

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    Steps in the justice system, from arrest to pre-trial to adjudication to sentencing to corrections.

    Concise, easy-to-read definitions