CJ 2019

Product Description

For introductory courses in criminal justice.Brief. Visual. Affordable.CJ 2019 engages students with real criminal justice issues using interactive components and eye-catching visuals. Students explore a repertoire of current events and the resulting challenges faced by practitioners in the subfields of law enforcement, correctional management and administration, and the US court system. Along the way, learners critically consider the cross-systems nature of crime, law, and justice as well as the benefits of integrative approaches to problem-solving. Building on CJ 2010, this 2019 edition adds current events, victimization theories, and significant new content representing changes to the field of criminal justice in 2017 and 2018.CJ 2019, 1st Edition, is also available via Revel™, an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience.

About the Author

Dr. James A. Fagin has taught in the criminal justice field since 1973. He has taught undergraduate and graduate classes, criminal justice classes for military officers at Command and General Staff College, and classes at police and correctional academies. Dr. Fagin has authored more than a dozen criminal justice texts.In producing this introductory textbook, Dr. Fagin has drawn on his extensive career experience within the entire spectrum of the criminal justice system, both in academia and within the criminal justice system.In his academic career, he has been a professor of criminal justice studies and Program Director at Lincoln College―Normal (LCN) in Normal, Illinois; professor and chair of the Criminal Justice Department at Chaminade University of Honolulu, the oldest and largest criminal justice program in Hawaii; and assistant professor and Director of Outreach Programs at Wichita State University. In addition to his experience in criminal justice education, Dr. Fagin served as Graduate School Dean at East Stroudsburg University and as Acting President of Kima International Theological College, a three-year college in Kenya, East Africa.Outside his academic career, Dr. Fagin has been a professional consultant to local and federal law enforcement agencies, the state courts, and local, state, and federal correctional facilities. He has also held positions as a commissioned deputy sheriff training officer and polygraph examiner for the Wyandotte County (Kansas) Sheriff’s Department and a commissioned reserve police officer in the Kansas City (Kansas) Police Department. Additionally, Dr. Fagin served on the Kansas Victims’ Rights Commission to help establish the charter victims’ rights legislation for the state, and assisted in implementing the first domestic disturbance response policy for the Wichita, Kansas, Police Department.A pioneer in criminal justice education, Dr. Fagin has been involved in innovative criminal justice education programs for over four decades. He developed one of the early models of statewide delivery of criminal justice undergraduate and graduate degrees for Kansas. During the developing years of criminal justice education, Dr. Fagin worked as a consultant and instructor for the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) to develop model criminal justice curriculum in research, administration, and planning to promote quality nationwide education in criminal justice. Under the oversight of LEAA, these model curriculums were developed by an elite team of practitioners and educators and were field-tested throughout the United States.Dr. Fagin has written some of the classical literature on computer crime, police bargaining and unions, presidential candidate security, domestic disturbance resolution, and hostage negotiations. His articles on international terrorism have been translated and published in major criminal justice journals in Japan. These works emerged from active involvement with federal, state, and local criminal justice agencies.Dr. Fagin has recei