Current Legal Issues in Criminal Justice

Timely and topical <em>Current Legal Issues in Criminal Justice</em> is a collection of in-depth essays on hot-button issues. The contributors--renowned scholars who have taught criminal justice and written extensively on legal issues--approach their material from both legal and sociological perspectives in order to give students a more nuanced understanding<br>of each topic. Short framing introductions preface each article and put the material in context and critical-thinking questions follow each chapter. Written in accessible and jargonfree--but not dumbed-down--language this text investigates such relevant topics as gun control racial profiling private prisons medical marijuana surveillance technology juvenile waiver laws inmate litigation drug testing the death penalty sex offender registration and confessions and interrogations law.<br>