This collection of readings is a one-of-a-kind—examining current policies, practices and issues impacting the field of criminal justice today. Leaving no stone unturned, contributing authors (all leaders in the field) explore a wide range of topics such as gangs, gender and race, war on drugs, terrorism, crime victims, correctional issues and computer-based technologies. Linking the past, present, and future of criminal justice, the authors discuss the issues currently impacting the system, the challenges that lie ahead, and their visions for how these issues will be handled in the next century.
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Focusing on the police courts, corrections, technology and gender issues, Muraskin and Roberts address the challenges that lie ahead in criminal justice with this collection of articles. Articles were selected based on the authors' expertise in discussing issues currently impacting the system and their vision for how these issues will be handled in the next century.
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This book is essential to both university students and criminal justice practitioners as it addresses many of the critical issues in the field of criminal justice. For the former, it will help them learn how to develop sharper visions of change and, for the latter, how to be better prepared to deal with the implication of change.
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– Prison Privatization-Issues for the Twenty-First Century
–Women and the Law: An Agenda for Change in the Twenty-First Century
–The International Law Implications on the United States Death Penalty
–Victim Impact Testimony in Capital Cases
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- All chapters have been updated and are right on target for the twenty-first century!
- Envisioning change is an awesome task. In this revised edition with brand new chapters. and the latest in materials, human sensibilities are examined in one of their most daring forms—criminal justice.
- At the end of the criminal justice continuum, we are faced with the insensibility of absolute freedom whereby some people claim the power to promote their own interests by all means possible.
- The vision here is human liberty. This dialectical dilemma that will never go away compels us to consider the truth of who we are, how we are to live together, and the utility of the laws, courts, police, prisons, and the other criminal justice organs that we have amassed.
- In this third edition of Visions for Change, experienced academicians face this very dilemma and offer their solutions by envisioning change and defending their vision intelligently.
- The practice of criminal justice is the nation's foremost test of civility, the way we as Americans handle criminals.
Since criminal justice change is bound to continue, must be made more functional; more conducive justice and rationality.
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Not as textbook, but a liberal manifesto,
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This review is from: Visions for Change: Crime and Justice in the 21st Century (3rd Edition) (Paperback)
As a Criminal Justice instructor who has reviewed this text (and almost had to use it) I cannot recommend this book. It portends to be a book about solutions, when in fact it essentially attacks every aspect of policing and the criminal justice system as it exists today, and the only solutions it provides are from the left to far left. There is no balance of opinion, no counter-point, and absolutely no effort on the part of the authors to inform students that they are in fact only getting one side of the issue. Far too often do I see this approach by liberal writers and educators: attempting to pass off their out of the mainstream ideas as fact. College is a marketplace of ideas, discussion, and debate. However, this book turns the debate into a one sided discussion on how awful and wholly without merit the current system is. I am not one as a CJ educator that believes we are to be cheerleaders for law enforcement. However, we do need to present the good with the bad, and this book would do nothing but discourage would-be law enforcement professionals. If the goal is to make such persons believe the profession they are about to enter into is completely corrupt and without merit, this is the "test" to use. If forced to use this book, I would suggest supplementing it with articles or texts that offer a counterpoint. That is, if you are interested in giving your students both sides of the issue - which I believe we as educators are charged to do, not just simply indoctrinate them with the opinions of those with whom you might agree. This book is nothing more than an attempt to indoctrinate, not foster intelligent debate and discussion on the topics contained therein. A candidate for zero stars, if that choice were available.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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I agree with the above review,
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This review is from: Visions for Change: Crime and Justice in the 21st Century (3rd Edition) (Paperback)
The authors of this book are truely using this "text" as a platform to preach their ideals. The authors about how unfair the U.S. system is and how it is going to change to conform to their views (this will never happen)is sickening.
It is not a good "text" book and professors should never subject their students to this mess of a "learning tool."
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Easy reading,
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Although the book arrived 3 weeks into the class, I was able to complete my class assignments due to the easy reading of the text. The understandability, I believe, made my tasks easy to complete - THANK YOU Rosalyn
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