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A Primer in the Politics of Criminal Justice, 2nd ed.
Nancy E. Marion
(paperback)
2007, 264 pages
ISBN: 978-1-881798-79-8
$35.00
campaigns and elections – including summaries of key crime-related issues raised in each presidential election campaign since the 1960s;
** chief executives (presidents and governors) – including a review of anti-crime policy initiatives in presidential administrations from John F. Kennedy’s to George W. Bush’s;
** legislatures – including a digest of major federal anti-crime legislation enacted since the 1960s;
** courts – including an analysis of the structure and role of the judicial systems and their impact on criminal justice policies;
** bureaucracies – including descriptions of the most important federal criminal justice agencies;
** interest groups – including a guide to the most prominent national criminal justice interest groups; and,
** media and public opinion – including an overview of findings on about the most controversial criminal justice policy issues and the role of the media in shaping those opinions.
Responses to the recent rise of Internet-related crime provide real-world examples of the political processes described in each chapter. Each chapter provides readers with sets of key concepts and review questions. An instructor’s manual is available.
Nancy E. Marion, a professor of political science at the University of Akron, specializes in the politics of crime and criminal justice. In addition to "A Primer in the Politics of Criminal Justice," Dr. Marion has written five other books, including three in her area of specialization, and many other publications. Dr. Marion is also a fellow with the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron.
Excerpt from the foreword by Prof. Willard M. Oliver, Sam Houston State University: “Nancy Marion’s book does an exemplary job of outlining the specific relationships of federal, state, and local political actors and the impact they have on the criminal justice system. It also describes how criminal justice affects the activities of political actors.... Professor Marion has done a masterful job of presenting the confluence of political science and criminal justice in a short and highly informative work. The book is truly deserving of its title as the definitive primer on the subject.”
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