Textbook Discounter: Law: Controlling the Dangerous Classes: A History of Criminal Justice in America (2nd Edition)

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Controlling the Dangerous Classes: A History of Criminal Justice in America (2nd Edition)
	Author: Randall G. Shelden Publisher: Allyn & Bacon Category: Book List Price: ~~$53.33~~ Buy New: $39.75 You Save: $13.58 (25%) New (16) Used (9) from $30.31 Sales Rank: 989964 Media: Paperback Edition: 2 Pages: 384 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1 Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 ISBN: 0205571891 Dewey Decimal Number: 364.973 EAN: 9780205571895 ASIN: 0205571891 Publication Date: October 1, 2007 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Condition: Inventory subject to prior sale. Expedited orders cannot be sent to PO Box. Sorry, not able to ship to APO, FPO, Alaska, and Hawaii.


Editorial Reviews: Product Description This text covers the history of criminal justice from a critical perspective and explores the historical biases of the criminal justice system. The overall theme of this book is that both the making of laws and the interpretation and application of these laws throughout the history of the criminal justice system has, historically, been class, gender, and racially biased. Moreover, one of the major functions of the criminal justice system has been to control those from the most disadvantaged sectors of the population, that is, the "dangerous classes." This theme is explored using a historical model, tracing the development of criminal law through the development of the police institution, the juvenile justice system, and the prison system.