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Authors: Nichol, Harding, and McKirdy
Publisher: Open Oregon Educational Resources
License: CC BY-NC
This is an introductory textbook exploring the management and treatment of people with mental disorders throughout the criminal justice system.
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Authors: Green, DeJonge, Golden, Brayton, Steinman, and Raybold
Publisher: Milne Open Textbooks
License: CC BY
Social Justice & Advocacy in Human Services delves into the complex realm of social justice, offering a deep dive into historical roots and theories to practical applications in the field. This text covers fundamental concepts, including power, privilege, and oppression, and explores critical issues like racism, gender, sexuality, poverty, religion, and disability in the context of the United States. The last section of the book hones in on the field of human services, discussing power, privilege, and bias in this context, and lastly exploring equitable distribution, human rights, and the systems and entry points within human services practice.
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Authors: Peterson and VanderPyl
Publisher: Open Oregon Educational Resources
License: CC BY
Introduction to Criminology provides a foundation for understanding the origins, evolution, and current status of criminological theories. This textbook explains the field of criminology and influential theories in context, with real-life examples and activities. All content is delivered through a lens of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Each chapter includes bold-faced key terms with definitions and cross-references that link backward and forward to important concepts. Students can also engage with the content through discussion questions and supplemental resources at the end of each chapter.
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Authors: Koslicki and Gray
Publisher: Indigo Koslicki and Andrew C. Gray
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Injustice at the Intersections is the first U.S.-based Open Textbook about race, gender, class, and criminal justice. While traditional textbooks are often expensive and require continuous publication of new editions to keep up with changing legislation and events, we wrote this Open Textbook under a CC BY-NC-SA license, meaning that instructors may revise, update, and change content as needed for changing events and different learning outcomes. We also plan to regularly update this Open Textbook and will always keep it free, as we believe that knowledge is the first step towards justice.
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Authors: Hoekman, McKenna, Pietrzak, Perez, Perry, Staab, Harmel, Nobiletti, and Sidani
Editor: Solberg
Publisher: Oregon State University
License: CC BY
This volume focuses on the constitutional doctrine and law in the areas of criminal rights. It contains excerpts of landmark cases covering the fourth, fifth, sixth, and eighth amendments, exceptions to the Warrants Rule, and investigatory methods. The excerpts include the constitutional issues in these cases that are related to rights of the accused with other questions of law and dicta omitted.
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Author: Klein
Publisher: CALI's eLangdell® Press
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Constitutional Law with a Twist: Less is More is designed for a one-semester survey course on federal constitutional law. The casebook covers the content of a typical four-credit survey course: the structure of the U.S. government and individual rights (other than First Amendment rights and rights unique to criminal law). What differentiates this casebook from most other constitutional law casebooks is that this book is deliberately short. It reflects the author’s philosophy that students often experience more joy, more depth, and more growth in an introductory course on constitutional law when there is less reading, more emphasis on contemporary cases, and more feedback on interim work. The book’s preface and the introduction to the accompanying teacher’s manual describe the book’s approach in detail to help faculty decide whether this casebook is a good fit for them and their students.
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Author: Koslicki
Publisher: Indigo Koslicki
License: CC BY-NC-SA
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.
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Authors: Mitchell and Deckard
Publisher: PALNI
License: CC BY
This textbook introduces students to the principles of effective data visualization and how to use visualization techniques to effectively communicate information and insights. Additionally, it shares presentation strategies to address communication gaps that could arise if the visualized data does not have the proper context and labeling. Students will learn how to select appropriate chart types and design effective visualizations that clearly convey data patterns and trends, to support data-driven decisions. The textbook also covers best practices for labeling, scaling, and annotating visualizations, as well as techniques for avoiding common pitfalls and biases in data visualization. Through hands-on exercises and projects, students will have the opportunity to practice creating a variety of visualizations using tools such as Excel, Power Business Intelligence (BI) and several problem-solving tools like Ishikawa, SWOT, PEST/LE, decision tree and more. Students will be able to process, analyze and visualize data to evaluate patterns and trends, and learn ways to communicate more effectively regardless of the setting or the type of audience.
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Authors: Bonilla Alarcón, Rojas Montero, and Llanos García
Publisher: Editorial Grupo AEA
License: CC BY-NC-SA
El presente libro examina el papel crucial que desempeña la justicia constitucional en la protección y garantía del derecho a una educación de calidad. A través de un enfoque comparado y multidisciplinario, se analizan los fundamentos doctrinales de la justicia constitucional, su evolución histórica y su impacto en el desarrollo de políticas públicas inclusivas y equitativas. La obra recoge jurisprudencia clave, estudios de caso y experiencias internacionales que demuestran cómo los tribunales constitucionales han intervenido activamente para corregir desigualdades educativas, proteger a grupos vulnerables y garantizar el cumplimiento de los principios constitucionales e internacionales. Asimismo, se abordan los desafíos estructurales, legales y sociales que limitan la efectividad de las decisiones judiciales, y se proponen estrategias para fortalecer la tutela judicial del derecho a la educación. Con una visión crítica y propositiva, el libro ofrece una guía integral para académicos, operadores jurídicos y responsables de políticas públicas comprometidos con la justicia educativa y los derechos humanos.
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Authors: Buller, Doughty, Lovich, Thomas, and Thompson
Publisher: Council of Australian University Librarians
License: CC BY-NC
This guide to legal research and citation of New Zealand law provides direction to students undertaking legal research. It may also be useful for members of the public and self-represented litigants. It covers the core skills and knowledge for effective legal research, such as creating a search strategy, identifying where to locate legal information and legal citation using the New Zealand Law Style Guide. This text explores searching for sources of legal information including case law, legislation and commentary and explains the different approaches required to locate and cite these sources of law.