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Criminal Justice Theory : Explaining the Nature and Behavior of Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice Theory is the first comprehensive volume on the theoretical foundations of criminal justice. While the field of criminology has produced many books of theory, the larger field of criminal justice has been undertheorized. Most basically, criminal justice theory explains the variations in official responses to behavior labeled criminal. It does this in part by examining variations in government social control systems that choose certain criminal sanctions over other forms of social control. Criminal justice theory also investigates the decisions about whether to use punishment a.

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  • "Criminal Justice Theory is the first comprehensive volume on the theoretical foundations of criminal justice. While the field of criminology has produced many books of theory, the larger field of criminal justice has been undertheorized. Most basically, criminal justice theory explains the variations in official responses to behavior labeled criminal. It does this in part by examining variations in government social control systems that choose certain criminal sanctions over other forms of social control. Criminal justice theory also investigates the decisions about whether to use punishment a."@en
  • "<P><EM>Criminal Justice Theory, Second Edition</EM> is the first and only text, edited by U.S. criminal justice educators, on the <I>theoretical foundations</I> of criminal justice, <U>not</U> criminological theory. This new edition includes entirely new chapters as well as revisions to all others, with an eye to accessibility and coherence for upper division undergraduate and beginning graduate students in the field.</P>"@en

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