Introduction to Criminal Justice: Operations, Obstacles, and Outcomes

• About This Open Textbook
• Chapter 1: History and Fundamentals of the American Legal System
• Chapter 2: Elements of Law, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System
• Chapter 3: Explaining Crime and Criminality
• Chapter 4: Measuring Crime and Victimization
• Chapter 5: Structure and History of U.S. Law Enforcement
• Chapter 6: Police Training, Search, and Seizure
• Chapter 7: Police Culture and Ethical Issues in Law Enforcement
• Chapter 8: Structure and History of U.S. Courts 
• Chapter 9: The Courtroom Workgroup and Ethical Issues in the Courts
• Chapter 10: Sentencing and the Death Penalty
• Chapter 11: Structure and History of U.S. Corrections
• Chapter 12: Mass Incarceration and Ethical Issues
• Chapter 13: Community Supervision 
• Chapter 14: Reentry, Recidivism, and the Revolving Door
• Chapter 15: Juvenile Justice
• Chapter 16: New Avenues in Preventing Crime and CJS Involvement 

Introduction to Criminal Justice: Operations, Obstacles, and Outcomes is an Open Textbook that brings the foundations of the criminal justice system and current events and issues to an accessible format, where readers may interact with multimedia content in addition to traditional text.