Product Description: Book by Braswell, Michael, Seay, Thomas

Product Description: In their experience as teachers of ethics courses in criminal justice, the authors have found examining and discussing hypothetical scenarios to be helpful in adding dimension and depth to the study of justice and ethics. Case Studies in Criminal Justice Ethics contains a variety of ethics-oriented cases that address the complex process of moral and ethical decision making...read more

Product Description: Book by Patricia Van Voorhis, Michael Braswell, David Lester

Product Description: This book views peacemaking as a broad, encompassing process that is expressed in many different shapes and forms. It blends ancient-wisdom traditions, peacemaking criminology, and restorative justice principles as a way of intervening with offenders in both institutional and community-based settings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The authors of the Fifth Edition of Human Relations and Corrections contend that effective relationships are the key component to correctional successes. The inmate, judge, probation officer, correctional officer, counselor, cleric, warden/superintendent, and others interact to form critical relationships that can either enhance or detract from the rehabilitative and correctional potential of incarcerated offenders, as well as those on probation and parole...read more

Real-life stories test reader s abilities to problem solve! Interactive and stimulating, realistic and accurate, versatile and practical-- these are some of the adjectives readers applied to the successful previous editions of Human Relations and Police Work. The Fourth Edition of this popular casebook continues to cover a broad range of police and law enforcement encounters and decision-making problems as it helps readers identify more closely with these important facets of the criminal justice experience. Cases have been updated to reflect current issues that face today's law enforcement officials. These issues include sexual harassment, minority recruitment, the homeless, hate crimes, and gay rights. Forty-nine thought-provoking scenarios allow readers to test how they would cope with each situation using their own methods and applying abstract concepts.

Product Description: New edition, now with more cases! Instructors have valued the versatile and practical use of case studies to help students identify with important facets of the criminal justice experience. In the revised Fifth Edition, Human Relations and Police Work now offers an even broader collection of realistic and thought-provoking scenarios to stimulate student-centered learning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Lozoff, Bo, Braswell, Michael

Product Description: How would you feel if you were Esau and your brother, Jacob, had stolen your birthright? What impact would Jesus’ intervention have on the rest of your life, if you were the adulteress he rescued from the mob that was ready to stone you? If Peter and Judas accidentally met on the night before the resurrection of Christ, what would they say to each other?   In Interview with Joab, 15 “what-if” scripturally based stories offer the reader an opportunity to reflect on and discuss well-known Bible stories in a fresh, thought-provoking way...read more

Product Description: Justice, Crime, and Ethics, a leading textbook in criminal justice programs, examines ethical dilemmas pertaining to the administration of criminal justice and professional activities in the field. Comprehensive coverage is achieved through focus on law enforcement, legal practice, sentencing, corrections, research, crime control policy, and philosophical issues...read more

What are we willing to sacrifice for the welfare of others? Can we face the suffering we have both given and received? Is there room for mercy in the heart of justice? These and other questions related to the moral depth and ethical inclination of the human condition are explored in the twelve original short stories that complete this book.Morality Stories encompasses personal, social and criminal justice themes and dilemmas, such as Death Row, homelessness and prejudice. In each story, persons are judged as much by the good they omitted to do as by the bad actions they chose to carry out. Acknowledging regrets, expressing remorse and accepting responsibility are demonstrated in many of the stories as a means of moving toward moral courage and decision-making.This new edition includes six new stories with discussion questions which address such themes as the politics of justice and drug abuse in a personal context; a crisis of cultural differences along the Mexican border; the restorative possibilities for an older ex-con; the politics of war; and the consequences of telling the truth.

Product Description: Transforming Corrections offers an alternative perspective not currently found in the existing literature concerning the way in which individuals in the criminal justice system are understood and treated. Intended for use as a supplementary text, this collection will help to enhance the current conversation that is ongoing in the field of rehabilitative corrections...read more