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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| What No One Is Telling You About Crime and Justice | |
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| Crime, Criminals, and Why We All Need to Know About Them | |
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| Getting Tough? The U.S. Criminal Justice System in Crisis | |
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| Who We Are and Why We Wrote This Book | |
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| The Crime Problem | |
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| Fear and Loathing: Don't Believe Everything You See in the Newspapers or on Television | |
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| If You Build It, They Will Come (and Then Leave): The War on Crime and the Growth of Prisons | |
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| Dirty Secrets of Criminal Justice | |
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| How Much Crime Is There and Who Commits It? | |
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| How Crimes Are Counted | |
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| Who Commits Crime? | |
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| Robbers, Rapists, and Serial Killers: Violent Crime in America | |
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| Homicide | |
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| Serial Killers | |
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| Mass Murder | |
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| Rape: A Crime of Power, Not Sex | |
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| Robbery | |
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| The Churches and Sexual Abuse | |
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| Hookers, Dopers, and Corporate Crooks: Economic, Exploitive, and Consensual Crime | |
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| Burglary | |
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| Motor Vehicle Theft | |
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| Corporate Crime | |
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| Identity Theft | |
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| Illegal Drug Use | |
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| Prostitution | |
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| Victims and Victimization: Will You Be Next? | |
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| Victim Characteristics | |
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| The Cost and Consequences of Victimization | |
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| Victims and Offenders | |
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| The Victims Movement | |
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| Crime Victims' Rights Act of 2004 | |
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| Crime and Criminal Law: Order, Liberty, and Justice for All? | |
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| Order Versus Liberty in American Democracy | |
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| Types of Crime: Felonies and Misdemeanors | |
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| When Is an Act a Crime and When Is It Not a Crime? The Elements of Criminal Behavior | |
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| When Is a Defendant Not Responsible for Committing a Crime? Legal Defenses to Criminal Charges | |
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| The Rights of Suspects and Defendants: Controversy and the U.S. Constitution | |
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| Why They Break the Law | |
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| Rational Choice and Deterrence | |
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| Biological and Psychological Explanations | |
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| Sociological Explanations | |
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| Theory and Policy, or How to Reduce Crime and How Not to Reduce It | |
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| Taking It to the Streets: Cops on the Job | |
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| The Organization of Law Enforcement | |
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| Police: White, Black, Male, Female, Straight, and Gay | |
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| The Police and Crime Rates | |
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| Doing Police Work | |
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| Police Discretion | |
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| The Police and Profiling | |
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| Militarizing the Police | |
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| Police Deviance: When the Good Guys Are Bad Guys | |
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| Sexual Predators in Blue | |
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| Police and the Use of Force | |
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| Policing the Police | |
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| Pretrial Procedures and Plea Bargaining: From Arrest to "Let's Make a Deal" | |
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| Pretrial Procedures | |
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| The Courtroom as a Clubhouse | |
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| Plea Bargaining | |
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| Criminal Trials and Courtroom Issues: Convicting the Innocent, Exonerating the Guilty | |
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| The Criminal Trial | |
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| Jury Nullification | |
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| Wrongful Convictions: Factually Innocent but Legally Guilty | |
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| Fingerprints: Proof Positive? | |
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| "Is That All the Evidence You Have?" The CSI Effect | |
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| Prisons and Jails: Punishment at Any Cost? | |
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| Such an Ordeal: Prisons Yesterday and Today | |
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| Life Behind Bars: Myths Versus Reality | |
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| Women in Prison: Sexism in Captivity | |
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| The Death Penalty Debate | |
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| Community Corrections and Juvenile Justice | |
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| Probation and Parole | |
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| Juvenile Justice: Youths at Risk? | |
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| Conclusion: What Every American Should Know | |
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| What Do We Know About Crime? | |
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| What Should We Do About Crime? | |
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| How Can We Help Crime Victims? | |
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| How Can We Improve the Justice System? | |
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| Keeping Your Family Safe | |
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| Keeping Your Family Off the Police Blotter | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |