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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?
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
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
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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Criminal
Justice Ideals (Ch. 1)
- CJ CYBRARY
(The world's criminal justice directory -- with VERY USEFUL information
on every CJ topic)
Click here for
every category
- FedStats
(Search amazing statistics by topic from the federal government)
- National
Archive
of Criminal Justice Data (Includes lots of useful data from the
General Social Surveys, National
Health Interview Survey, National Center for Health Statistics,
National
Center for Health Statistics)
- SPLCENTER.ORG
(The site for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is now
internationally
known for its tolerance education program, its legal victories against
white supremacist groups, its tracking of hate groups and its
sponsorship
of the Civil Rights Memorial)
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Criminal
Justice System Realities (Ch. 2)
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Law
Links (Ch. 3)
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Crime
Links (Ch. 4)
Click here
for the Top 100 Corporate predators of the decade)
- Abuse
of
Power by Corporate and Governmental Elites
("Criminology and Criminal Justice focus on crimes on the streets and
give
passing mention to crimes in the suites, even though all the research
indicates that white collar crimes cost far more than street crime
..." from Dr. Paul Leighton)
- The Atlantic Online
(A great magazine with articles on many relevant issues. See the
excellent articles about crime HERE)
- Crime.com (See the
sections on crime information and news for information about
your
state, including crime statistics, and police and prisons locator)
- Financial Crimes
Enforcement
Network (Interagency and global cooperation against
domestic and
international
financial crimes; strategic analyses of domestic and worldwide
money-laundering
developments, trends and patterns)
- Homicide
Trends (Discover what is happening with murder from the Bureau
of Justice
Statistics)
- National White
Collar
Crime Center (Provides nationwide support services for
enforcement agencies
involved
in the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of economic and
high-tech
crime)
- Uniform Crime
Reports (Get the latest crime statistics known to the police
from the Federal
Bureau
of Investigation)
- White
Collar Deviance and Street Crime Research Links (From Dr. Mike
Lynch at the University of South Florida. Includes
stuff on white-collar deviance, including Automobile Study Links,
Environmental
Justice (EJ) Links, Corporate Crime and Regulation, Environmental
Information
Pages, Ordinary or Street Crime Information, and Other Useful Research
Links)
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Media
Links (Ch. 5)
Copyrighted comic from www.grimmy.com (reprinted
with
permission)
- Start here with
Center for Media and Public Affairs (Tons of research from this
nonpartisan research and educational
organization
which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media)
Click here
for Indicators of School Safety
Click here
for Safe and Drug-Free Schools
Click here
for Safe Schools Now (from the National Educational
Association)
Click here
for SCHOOL VIOLENCE RESOURCES (from the U.S. Department of Justice)
Click here
for SCHOOL VIOLENCE RESOURCES (from the Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention)
Click here
for school violence resources from the American Counseling Association.
Click here
for FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO SCHOOL VIOLENCE
Click here
for The Appropriate and Effective Use of Security Technologies in
U.S.
Schools: A Guide for Schools and Law Enforcement Agencies Series:
Research Report
- Safe Colorado
(SAFE Colorado is a bipartisan organization formed to advocate the
reasonable
regulation of the manufacture and distribution of handguns,
semi-automatic
assault weapons, ammunition and related paraphernalia, while
recognizing
the right of Colorado citizens to own and use firearms designed for
legitimate
hunting, sport and defensive purposes. Includes links and great
statistics
on guns)
- The
Reality
and Reporting
of Crime (Most crimes aren't reported by the news media, and a
new study
suggests
that those crimes that are reported don't reflect actual patterns of
crime
or risk of victimization).
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Police
Links (Ch. 6)
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Trial and Pretrial Links (Ch. 7)
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Sentencing Links (Ch. 8)
- Innocence
Project Northwest (The efforts of IPNW attorneys and law
students have helped to free 11
innocent prisoners since 1997. As many as 10 percent of inmates
in
the United States may be factually innocent of the crimes of which they
were convicted, according to the National
Institute of Justice. That’s as many as 200,000 innocent people
languishing
in American prisons. This is a national problem).
- Truth in Justice
(A non-profit organization working to free wholly innocent men and
women
convicted of crimes they did not commit, and to prevent wrongful
convictions
by alerting the public to the vulnerabilities in the U. S. criminal
justice
system that make these miscarriages possible).
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Incarceration Links (Ch. 9)
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Death Penalty Links (Ch. 10)
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Drugs
Links (Ch. 11)
These are deaths from .... (drum roll
please ...)
TOBACCO, a legal drug
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Bias
in the Criminal Justice System Links (Ch. 12)
This chart shows
what
the TYPICAL criminal and his victim look like. The TYPICAL
criminal
and victim is a function of what type of crime you are talking
about!
Street crime (which is more visible to the public but less harmful) is
more likely committed by the powerless. The most harmful types of
crimes, invisible crimes (such as white-collar and occupational crimes)
are more likely committed by wealthier, older Whites. Our focus
on
street crime thus constitutes a bias against the powerless.
(An excellent book I've used for years which offers a more realistic
portrayal
of the justice system than most introductory books)
- Race and the Death Penalty -- Part
I and Part
II (Part of Race, Racism and the Law: Speaking Truth to
Power!)
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for site map
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The
Future of Criminal Justice Links (Ch. 13)
Copyrighted image by Andrea Geller from
www.images.com
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Issue
in Depth: THE DEATH PENALTY -- See the
in-depth pages on capital punishment by Dr. Robinson for his death
penalty
classes 
ISSUE
IN DEPTH: DOES THE WAR ON DRUGS REDUCE DRUG USE???