Justice Blind? (2nd Edition) contains the following chapters:
(being updated for 3rd ed. now)

SECTION I: THE “CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM”: IDEALS AND REALITIES
Chapter 1 – What is the Criminal Justice System? Ideals
Chapter 2 – The Role of Politics and Ideology in Criminal Justice: Realities
Chapter 3 – The Law: Providing Equal Protection of Creating Bias?

SECTION II: CRIME: IMAGES AND REALITIES
Chapter 4 – Crime: Which is Worse, Crime on the Streets or Crime in the Suites?
Chapter 5 – “The Sky is Falling!  The Sky is Falling!”  Media Portrayals of Crime and Criminal Justice

SECTION III: COMPONENTS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE: POLICE, COURTS, AND CORRECTIONS
Chapter 6 – Law Enforcement: To Serve and Protect?
Chapter 7– Right to Trial?  Injustice in Pretrial and Trial Procedures 
Chapter 8 – Punishment: Does it Work and is it Fair?
Chapter 9– Incarceration: Lock ‘Em Up and Throw Away Your Money

SECTION IV: BAD CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY AND HOW TO FIX THIS MESS
Chapter 10 – The Ultimate Sanction: Death as Justice?
Chapter 11 – The “War on Drugs”: Focusing on the Wrong Drugs?
Chapter 12 – The War on Crime as a Threat to Equality: Innocent Bias Against the Poor, People of Color, and Women
Chapter 13 – Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations for the Future

 
 
 


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