The new edition of best-selling CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN ACTION: THE CORE, Third Edition offers a clear and highly engaging overview of the criminal justice system in a manageable 15-chapter paperback text with an attractive price and an unbeatable teaching and learning package. Gaines and Miller combine cutting-edge research with accessible discussions of theory, up-to-the-minute examples of policy, and applications from today's headlines. Gaines and Miller take an applied approach that is visible in their coverage of contemporary topics, their concentration on careers, and their expansive integration of online and CD-ROM assets throughout. Also, interactive learning aids such as the new "Online Reviews" flagged in the book after each major chapter section and the "Mastering Concepts" summaries make this an especially effective teaching tool. To help students investigate and focus on the criminal justice career choices right for them, the Careers in Criminal Justice 3.0 Interactive CD-ROM is automatically packaged FREE with each new copy of the text. Also available FREE when packaged with the text is Criminal JusticeNow -the ultimate web-based student tutorial for the course. This intelligent study system helps students assess their mastery of chapter concepts and provides them with a Personalized Study Plan."
- ISBN10 0495003050
- ISBN13 9780495003052
- Publish Date 2 February 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 December 2013
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
- Pages 422
- Language English