Justice Administration (9^th Ed.) Police, Courts, & Corrections Management

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Using an active-learning approach and real-world examples, Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management examines all relevant facets of the criminal justice system and includes practical exercises in most chapters. The text flows logically, from basic justice administration, to police, courts, and corrections, and finally, ethical, financial, and technological influences. The 9th edition focuses on accountability ? particularly of the police, in the aftermath of police shootings of unarmed minorities ? and includes a new chapter on homeland security.

PART 1: JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION
1. The Study and Scope of Justice Administration
2. Organization and Administration
3. Rights of Criminal Justice Employees
PART 2: THE POLICE
4. Police Organization and Operation
5. Police Personnel Roles and Functions
6. Police Issues and Practices
PART 3: THE COURTS
7. Court Organization and Operation
8. Court Personnel Roles and Functions
9. Court Issues and Practices
PART 4: CORRECTIONS
10. Corrections Organization and Operation
11. Corrections Personnel Roles and Functions
12. Corrections Issues and Practices
PART 5: ISSUES SPANNING THE JUSTICE SYSTEM
13. Ethical Considerations
14. Special Challenges
15. Financial Administration
16. Protecting the Homeland: Foremost Challenges for Police Chief Executives
17. Technologies and Tools: Toward Addressing Crime and Disorder
Appendix: Writings of Confucius, Machiavelli, and Lao-Tzu

About our authors

Kenneth J. Peak is Professor Emeritus and former chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nevada, Reno, where he was named “Teacher of the Year” by the university’s Honor Society (and served a stint as Director of Police Services). After serving for several years as a municipal police officer in Kansas, Ken subsequently held positions as a nine-county criminal justice planner for southeast Kansas, Director of a four-state Technical Assistance Institute for the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Director of University Police at Pittsburg State University, and Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Wichita State University.

He has authored or coauthored 30 textbooks and two historical books (on Kansas bootlegging and temperance). His other books include Policing America: Methods, Issues, Challenges, 9th Edition; Community Policing and Problem Solving: Strategies and Practices, 7th Edition (with R.W. Glensor); Police Supervision and Management, 3rd Edition (with L.K. Gaines and R.W. Glensor); and Women in Law Enforcement Careers (with V.B. Lord). He also has published more than 60 monographs, journal articles and invited chapters on a variety of policing topics.

Ken has held several national and regional criminal justice offices and continues to be very active in academia. He holds a doctorate from the University of Kansas and received two gubernatorial appointments to statewide criminal justice committees while residing in Kansas.

Andrew L. Giacomazzi is Associate Dean in the School of Public Service and Professor of Criminal Justice at Boise State University. Prior to assuming that role, Andy was the chair of the Department of Criminal Justice after serving a six-year term as the department’s MA Coordinator. He worked extensively with the Western Regional Institute of Community Oriented Public Safety to conduct assessments of police departments and sheri

Hallmark features of this title

Practical applications

• Learn by Doing sections in most chapters challenge students' problem-solving skills.
• Case studies in most chapters explore current community issues.

Varied perspectives

• In Deliberate and Decide and In their Own Words boxes, current or former justice administrators discuss their work and advise students pursuing a career in the field.
• The writings of three philosophers (Confucius, Machiavelli and Lao-Tzu) appear in the appendix.