Introduction to Criminal Justice: A Balanced Approach
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Chapter 1. Introduction to Criminal Justice
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The Criminal Justice System Cycle
Learning Objective: 1-1: Identify the three main components of the criminal justice system.
O. J. Simpson Acquittal
Learning Objective: 1-2: Determine whether cases reported in the media adequately reflect the bulk of cases processed through the justice system.
Stickup Kid
Learning Objective: 1-3: Describe the relationship between the criminal justice system and the juvenile justice system.
The Story of Weldon Angelos
Learning Objective: 1-6: Compare and contrast criminal justice and criminology; 1-7: Explain the role that criminal justice has in your life
Chapter 2. Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice Research
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How I defend the Rule of Law
Learning Objective: 2-1: Discuss the legal perspectives of crime
What I learned as a kid in jail
Learning Objective: 2-2: Define how crime is a violation of the criminal law
We need to talk about an injustice
Learning Objective: 2-3: Discuss the social perspectives of crime
Forecasting criminal behavior and crime victimization
Learning Objective: 2-5: Discuss the behavioral perspectives of crime
Chapter 3. An Introduction to Measuring Crime and Crime Patterns
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Janet Lauritsen and the NCVS, Parts 1, 2, & 3
Learning Objective: 3-1: Describe the main strategies used to measure the amount of crime occurring in the United States; 3-2: Compare and contrast the various crime measurement strategies
Raising Adam Lanza
Learning Objective: 3-5: Describe juvenile offending trends and the aging-out phenomenon.
Chapter 4. An Introduction to Crime Typologies
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Conrad Murray sentenced: Michael Jackson’s doctor gets 4 years in jail
Learning Objective: 4-2: Explain the difference between murder and manslaughter
Identity theft on the rise
Learning Objective: 4-3: Identify four types of common property crimes
Alleged ringleader in Broward County burglary ring arrested
Learning Objective: 4-4: Evaluate a crime scenario and determine if the crime is a robbery, larceny, or burglary
Juvenile Status Offenders
Learning Objective: 4-6: Identify the types of offenses committed most often by juveniles
Martha Stewart accused of insider trading
Learning Objective: 4-7: Compare and contrast white-collar crime with other types of crime; 4-8: Define corporate crime and organized crime
Chapter 5. An Introduction to Criminological Theory
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The link between anatomy and violence
Learning Objective: 5-4: Discuss the role of biology on crime
YAR at the Chicago Area Project
Learning Objective: 5-5: Explain how social factors might contribute to criminal behavior
Student panel with Travis Hirschi
Learning Objective: 5-6: Compare and contrast three different social psychological explanations of crime
The Wire and Labeling Theory Parts I and II
Learning Objective: 5-7: Demonstrate how cognitive process contribute to criminal behavior
Chapter 6. An Introduction to Policing
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A history of policing in America
Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify the influence of early societal development on the emergence of policing
A look at Houston PD’s Homeless Outreach
Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the developments in policing during the four main eras; 6-7: Explain how police departments are structured
Small, rural, tribal, and border regional center
Learning Objective: 6-4: Distinguish between municipal, county, state, and federal police
ATF’s Special Response Team
Learning Objective: 6-6: Describe five different federal police agencies
Chapter 7. Police Strategies
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The legacy of James Q. Wilson
Learning Objective: 7-3: Describe how the broken windows model influenced policing
Interview with Herman Goldstein
Learning Objective: 7-5: Explain the basics of problem oriented policing
Hot spot policing
Learning Objective: 7-6: Describe at least five types of targeted
Intelligence-led policing fusion centers
Learning Objective: 7-8: Evaluate the influence of homeland security and terrorism on policing
Chapter 8. Issues in Policing
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Police and Sit-Lie Ordinance
Learning Objective: 8-1: Explain how political, legislative, economic, social, and technological factors
A death in St. Augustine
Learning Objective: 8-2: Identify the source of the police subculture
Robert Bates speaks
Learning Objective: 8-1: Explain how political, legislative, economic, social, and technological factors influence policing
Grateful for, and wary of, extra force
Learning Objective: 8-4: Identify types of police stress
Law and Disorder
Learning Objective: 8-5: Compare and contrast four types of police misconduct
Chapter 9. An Introduction to the Courts
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Judge denies change of venue for theater shooting trial
Learning Objective: 9-2: Identify the different types of courts and the types of cases they hear.
The Supreme Court’s landmark rulings
Learning Objective: 9-3: Distinguish among federal, state, and local courts; 9-4: Outline the process by which the Supreme Court hears a case
The Minnesota Supreme Court
Learning Objective: 9-3: Distinguish among federal, state, and local courts; 9-5: Describe how lower courts are arranged and their relationships.
Technology in the courtroom
Learning Objective: 9-7: Explain the influence of technology on increased efficiencies in court processes
Chapter 10. The Judicial Process
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The heart-shaped sticker and the Internet search for chloroform
Learning Objective: 10-1: Describe the trial process in the US.
Grand jury orientation video
Learning Objective: 10-2: Explain the pre-trial stages that occur prior to the actual trial
11 years in Guantanamo without trial or charges
Learning Objective: 10-9: Identify the rights of defendants throughout the judicial process
Chapter 11. Issues in the Courts
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The Plea
Learning Objective: 11-2: Discuss the policy of plea bargaining
Sandra Day O’Connor speaks
Learning Objective: 11-4: Debate the pros and cons of different methods used to seat judges
Oklahoma’s stand-your-ground
Learning Objective: 11-6: Explain the different types of defenses used
Chapter 12. An Introduction to Corrections
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A living death
Learning Objective: 12-1: Compare and contrast the goals of punishment
Prison State
Learning Objective: 12-3 Describe four types security levels of prisons; 12-4: Delineate the differences between federal, state, and local corrections.
Kids in jail
Learning Objective: 12-5: Compare and contrast juvenile facilities with adult institutions
Chapter 13. Punishing Offenders in Prisons, Jails, and the Community
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Solitary Nation
Learning Objective: 13-2: Describe the how inmates experience incarceration
Jail v. Prison
Learning Objective: 13-1: Distinguish jails from prisons
The Released
Learning Objective: 13-3: Explain how inmates are released from prison
System Failure in Jaycee Dugard Case
Learning Objective: 13-4: Identify how probation and parole are structured in the United States
LAPD’s boot camp for troubled teens
Learning Objective: 13-7: Evaluate the usefulness of various types of sanctions
Chapter 14. Issues in Corrections
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Attica
Learning Objective: 14-1: Describe three legal rights that inmates have
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Learning Objective: 14-3: Discuss the types of stress and misconduct occurring in the corrections field
Juvenile prisons
Learning Objective: 14-4: Describe four issues that surface when detaining juvenile offenders
We need to talk about an injustice
Learning Objective: 14-6: Debate arguments for and against the death penalty
Chapter 15. Current and Future Criminal Justice Issues
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The fight against sex slavery
Learning Objective: 15-1: Discuss how crime varies across countries
The Terrorism and Extremist Violence in the United States (TEVUS) Database
Learning Objective: 15-2: Distinguish between domestic and international terrorism
The 1s and 0s behind cyber warfare
Learning Objective: 15-3: Identify how technology has influenced criminal justice and crime
America’s Incarcerated
Learning Objective: 15-4: Discuss how demographic changes will influence criminal justice in the future
Operation Ceasefire in Northwest Jacksonville
Learning Objective: 15-5: Identify successful and unsuccessful gun violence reduction
Todd Clear
Learning Objective: 15-7: Assess whether criminal justice policies are evidence-based policies