This text covers the history of criminal justice from a critical perspective and explores the historical biases of the criminal justice system.
The overall theme of this book is that both the making of laws and the interpretation and application of these laws throughout the history of the criminal justice system has, historically, been class, gender, and racially biased. Moreover, one of the major functions of the criminal justice system has been to control those from the most disadvantaged sectors of the population, that is, the "dangerous classes." This theme is explored using a historical model, tracing the development of criminal law through the development of the police institution, the juvenile justice system, and the prison system.
- ISBN10 0205571891
- ISBN13 9780205571895
- Publish Date 22 October 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 May 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English