About the AuthorAcknowledgmentsTo Professors Using This BookGeneral IntroductionPart I: CrimeChapter 1: Defining, Classifying, and Measuring Crime The Media and Crime The Rhetoric of "Crime" Defining Crime Classifying Crime Measuring Crime The Politics of Crime Data Chapter Summary Review/Discussion Questions Key Terms NotesChapter 2: Criminal Law The Rule of Law The "Ingredients" (Elements) of Crime Defenses Jaywalking: The Invention of a Crime Chapter Summary Review/Discussion Questions Key Terms NotesChapter 3: Criminology Perspectives on the Crime Problem Religious Approaches to Crime Classical Criminology Biological Criminology Psychological Criminology Sociological Criminology Chapter Summary Review/Discussion Questions Key Terms NotesChapter 4: Crime and Inequality Economic Inequality and Crime Racial Inequality and Crime Gender Inequality and Crime Intersectionality Green Criminology, Queer Criminology, and Postmodernism Chapter Summary Review/Discussion Questions Key TermsPart II: PolicingChapter 5: The Nature and History of Policing Distinctions in American Policing Policing From a Critical Perspective Policing From a Critical Perspective Policing in America: The Early Years Federal Policing The 1960s and Their Aftermath The Homeland Security Era and Beyond Chapter Summary Review/Discussion Questions Key TermsChapter 6: Modern Policing The Organization of Policing The Use of Force The Constitution and the Police: The Fourth Amendment Police Discretion Civil Forfeiture Chapter Summary Review/Discussion Questions Key TermsChapter 7: Police Deviance Police Deviance in Context Overenthusiastic Policing Corruption The Causes of Police Deviance Addressing Police Deviance Defunding the Police? Chapter Summary Review/Discussion Questions Key TermsPart III: Courts And TrialsChapter 8: Courts The Function(s) of the Trial Adversarial Justice Plea Bargains The Courtroom Workgroup Chapter Summary Review/Discussion Questions Key Terms NotesChapter 9: Criminal Trials The Process is the Punishment" Pretrial The Trial Jury Instructions, Deliberation, and Verdict Appeals and Appellate Courts The Supreme Court Politics and Constitutional Interpretation Chapter Summary Review/Discussion Questions Key TermsPart IV: Corrections and Special TopicsChapter 10: The Theory and History of Punishment Why We Punish The History of Punishment The Rise of the Prison Prison Labor and Indeterminate Sentencing Rehabilitation Mass Incarceration The Prison-Industrial Complex After Incarceration? Chapter Summary Review/Discussion Questions Key TermsChapter 11: Prison Life Going to Prison The Prison Population Types of Prisons Life in Prison, the Inmate Code Women in Prison Trans People in Prison The Rights of the Incarcerated Chapter Summary Review/Discussion Questions Key Terms NotesChapter 12: Alternatives to Prison The Collateral Effects of Incarceration Community Corrections Sex Offenses and Criminal Punishment Alternative Incarcerations Restorative Justice Chapter Summary Review/Discussion Questions Key TermsChapter 13: The Death Penalty The History of the Death Penalty The Death Penalty and the Constitution Other Developments in the Death Penalty Chapter Summary Review/Discussion Questions Key Terms NotesChapter 14: Juvenile Justice The Language of Juvenile Justice The History of Childhood Crime Juvenile Justice Juvenile Corrections Special Cases Chapter Summary Review/Discussion Questions Key Terms NotesGlossaryReferencesIndex.