Criminal Justice Today
I. What Is Crime?
A. The Consensus Model
B. The Conflict Model
C. An Integrated Definition of Crime
II. Types of Crime
A. Violent Crimes
1. Murder
2. Sexual Assault/Rape
3. Assault & Battery
4. Robbery
B. Property Crime
C. Public-Order Crime
D. White-Collar Crime
E. Organized Crime
F. High-Tech Crime
III. The Criminal Justice System
A. The Purpose of the Criminal Justice System
1. The Constitution of the United States
2. Law Enforcement
a. Local Law Enforcement
b. State Law Enforcement
c. Federal Law Enforcement
3. The Courts
4. Corrections
a. Probation
b. Jails and Prisons
c. Community-Based Corrections
d. Parole
IV. The Criminal Justice Process
A. The Formal & Informal Processes of Justice
B. Discretionary Justice
C. The “Wedding Cake Model”
1. Celebrity Cases
2. High-Profile Felonies
3. Ordinary Felonies
4. Misdemeanors
D. Herbert Packer’s Model(s)
1. The Crime Control Model
2. The Due Process Model
V. Trends & Issues in Criminal Justice Today
A. The Decline in Crime
B. Fear of Crime
C. Crime as a Political Issue
D. The Growing Prison Population
E. Race & Crime
F. Women & Crime
G. Children & Violence
H. Terrorism & Civil Liberties