Critical Issues in Crime and Justice

Mary Maguire is the associate dean of the College of Health and Human Services at California State University Sacramento where she previously served as a Professor and the Chair of the Division of Criminal Justice and the Director of the Center for Justice and Policy Research. Her research interests include moral panic and public policy, as well as issues related to the incarceration movement in the United States, including drugs, race, class and programs for those at risk for offending. Selected publications include: A False Sense of Security: Moral Panic Driven Sex Offender Legislation, Corrections in California: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and The Prevalence of Mental Illness in California Sex Offenders on Parole:  A comparison of Those Who Recidivated with a New Sex Crime Versus Those Who Did Not. In addition to Critical Issues in Crime and Justice, she has three editions of Annual Editions: Drugs, Society, and Behavior. She served as the Book Review Editor for Contemporary Justice Review and is the past President of the Western Society of Criminology. In addition to numerous student programs, Dr. Maguire started a Project Rebound site, a prison to university pipeline, at Sacramento State and continues to advance issues of justice and equity. Dan Okada is a professor in the Division of Criminal Justice at California State University Sacramento.  He has professed criminal justice at Long Beach State University and Marist College (in Poughkeepsie New York).  He is past editor-in-chief of Contemporary Justice Review and is a past president of Justice Studies Association.  Both efforts promoting social, transformative, and restorative justice and peacemaking criminology.  His work revolves around juvenile and restorative justice, while his play centers on doing as little damage to others as possible.

PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1. Introduction: The Many Voices in Justice - Mary Maguire and Dan Okada
PART I. Criminal Justice and Criminological Paradigms
2. The Importance of Ethics in Criminal Justice - Cyndi Banks
3. Criminological Theory and Crime Explanation - Dan Okada
4. Unleashing the Power of Criminal Justice Theory - Peter B. Kraska
PART II. Offenses and Offenders
5. Juvenile Delinquency - David L. Parry
6. Gender Matters: Trends in Girls′ Criminality - Meda Chesney-Lind
7. Race and Crime - Helen Taylor Greene
8. Culture, Media and Crime - Dimitri A. Bogazianos
9. Crime and Economics: Consumer Culture, Criminology and the Politics of Exclusion - Stephen L. Muzzatti
10. Sex Crimes - Mary Maguire
11. Terrorism and the Criminal Justice System: Questions, Issues and Current Applicable Law - Sharla J. "Kris" Cook
12. Developments in Cyber Criminology - Johnny Nhan and Michael Bachmann
PART III. Policing and Law Enforcement
13. A History of American Policing - Craig D. Uchida
14. Police Theory - John Crank, Dawn Irlbeck and Connie M. Koski
15. Contemporary Policing: Police Work in the 21st Century - Christopher C. Cooper
PART IV. Policy and Jurisprudence
16. Police Organization and Administration - Thomas W. Nolan
17. Public Policy - Frank P. Williams III and Janice Ahmad
18. American Courts - Cassia Spohn
19. The Juvenile Justice System - Randall G. Shelden
PART V. Corrections and Societal Response
20. The Philosophical and Ideological Underpinnings of Corrections - Anthony Walsh and Ilhong Yun
21. Community Corrections, Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Reentry - Marilyn D. McShane and Traqina Emeka
22. Restorative Justice in Theory - Lois Presser
23. Garbage In, Garbage Out? Convict Criminology, the Convict Code and Participatory Prison Reform - Alan Mobley
ABOUT THE EDITORS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS