Cox and Wade provide a brief, straightforward, practical overview of the complexities of the U.S. criminal justice system seen as a network of interacting individuals whose everyday decisions have consequences not only for others in their agencies, but for criminal justice practitioners in all components of the network. The text emphasizes that the system can best be understood by showing its relationship with the public, the necessary role of discretion throughout the system, and the effects of politics on the day-to-day operations of the system.
- ISBN10 0072321482
- ISBN13 9780072321487
- Publish Date 7 December 2001 (first published 1 January 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 June 2006
- Publish Country US
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
- Imprint McGraw Hill Higher Education
- Edition 4th Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 448
- Language English