BUNDLE: Rennison: Introduction to Criminal Justice + Pratt: Key Ideas in Criminology and Criminal Justice

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We offer these texts bundled together at a discount for your students.

Callie M. Rennison and Mary Dodge, Introduction to Criminal Justice
Introduction to Criminal Justice: Systems, Diversity, and Change offers a brief, accessible approach to Criminal Justice with comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of all aspects of the criminal justice system in 14 succinct chapters. Using four running cases that appear in each chapter, students are given real-life examples of the pathways and outcomes of criminal behavior and victimization. Designed to show the interconnectivity within the criminal justice system, each case study provides concrete examples of events, concepts, and terms. Additionally, coverage of unique topics such as ethics, diversity, policy, gender, victimization, and white-collar crime are included throughout the text. Offered both in print and Interactive eBook editions, this text provides flexibility for different modes of instruction and appeals to students of all learning styles.

Travis C. Pratt, Jacinta M. Gau and Travis W. Franklin, Key Ideas in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Key Ideas in Criminology and Criminal Justice is an innovative, fascinating treatment of some of the seminal theories in criminology and key policies in criminal justice, offering a detailed and nuanced picture of these core ideas. With a fluid, accessible, and lively writing style, this brief text is organized around major theories, ideas, and movements that mark a turning point in the field, and concludes with a discussion of the future of criminology and criminal justice. Readers will learn about the most salient criminological and criminal justice research and understand its influence on theory and policy. They will also understand the surrounding socio-political conditions from which the ideas sprang and the style and manner in which they were disseminated, both of which helped these scholarly contributions become cornerstones in the fields of criminology and criminal justice.

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Genre: Social Science / Criminology (fancy, right?)