Publisher:Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009.
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The case of the unsolved crime decline / R. Rosenfeld -- The new math on crime / Will Sullivan -- Neuroscience and the law / Michael Gazzaniga and Megan S. Steven -- Ill Winds : the chemical plant next door / Becky Bradway -- Chasing my stolen bicycle / Justin Jouvenal -- Virginia Tech shooting leaves 33 dead / Christine Hauser and Anahad O'Connor -- Duke lacrosse players relieved case has "closure" / The Associated Press -- O.J. Simpson's book and TV special are canceled / Bill Carter and Edward Wyatt -- Help wanted / Jack Dunphy -- Katrina, one year later ... Ann Wilder and James Arey -- Super Bowl XXXIX: the successful response of the FBI and its partners / Jeffrey Westcott -- Forensic nursing : an aid to law enforcement / Joseph R. Yost -- Why racial profiling doesn't work / Kim Zetter -- Mayor meets groom's family in NYPD slaying / The Associated Press -- Early detection of the problem officer / Dino DeCrescenzo -- Policing the future : law enforcement's new challenges / Gene Stephens -- A court in a storm / Aaron Kuriloff -- The case against plea bargaining / Timothy Lynch -- Rights of defense / Andrew Rachlin -- How much should lawyers know when picking a jury? / M.B.E. Smith -- Self-defense vs. municipal gun bans / Robert VerBruggen -- The innocents : idealistic law students labor to free the wrongly accused / Michele Cohen Marill -- Evil twins : and how DNA evidence is useless against them / John Wolfson -- Effects of capital punishment on the justice system / Brent E. Dickson -- The carrot and the sticks / Jens Soering -- Paris starts, ends week behind bars / John Rogers -- Incarceration and crime: a complex relationship / Ryan S. King, Marc Mauer, and Malcolm C. Young -- Panel suggests using inmates in drug trials / Ian Urbina -- Serving life, with no chance of redemption / Adam Liptak -- Barred from voting / Katharine Mieszkowski -- Felon fallout / Alan Greenblatt -- Returning home: scholars say more research is needed on the societal re-entry of the formerly incarcerated / Ronald Roach -- Juvenile justice and emerging issues in criminal justice -- Introduction to section V -- The trouble with troubled teen programs / Maia Szalavitz -- Jailed for life after crimes as teenagers / Adam Liptak -- Young lives for sale / Bay Fang -- Stepchildren of justice / Carl M. Cannon -- Biometrics basics / Law and Order staff -- GPS offender tracking & the police officer / Patrick Hyde and Nicole DeJarnatt -- Do immigrants make us safer? / Eyal Press -- The CSI effect / Kit R. Roane -- Credits.