Battleground : criminal justice / edited by Gregg Barak.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

V.1: A-L. Adversarial justice -- African American criminal (In) justice -- Alternative responses to crime by society -- Anti-terrorism laws -- Bail -- Boot camps -- Cameras in the courtroom -- Class justice -- Clemency -- Community police -- COMPSTAT and Crime reduction -- Conspiracy and substantial assistance -- Convict criminology -- Corporal punishment -- Corrections education -- Crime and culture Consumption -- Crime control industry -- Cruel and unusual punishment -- CSI effect -- Dangerous offenders -- Death penalty in the United States -- Defining criminal violence -- Disenfranchisement laws for felonies -- DNA usage in criminal justice -- Domestic violence practices -- Driving while Black -- DWI and drug testing -- Environmental crime control -- Equal justice and human rights -- Espionage Act of 1917 -- Exclusionary rule -- Executions-televised -- Expert witness testimony -- Eyewitness identifications -- Faith-based prison programs -- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- Forensic psychology -- Gang injunction laws -- Gendered justice -- Guantanamo detainees -- Gun control -- Hawaiians (ethnic) and incarceration -- Homeland security -- Immigration and employment law enforcement -- Indigent defendants representation -- International Criminal Court -- International humanitarian law enforcement -- Introduction to controversies in criminal justice -- Juvenile justice -- Juveniles and social justice -- Juveniles treated as adults -- Lethal force -- V.2: M-Z. Marijuana medicalization ("legalization") -- Media portrayals of criminal justice -- Mental health and insanity -- Militarization of policing -- Miranda warnings -- Miscarriages of justice -- New penology -- Parole -- Patriot Act -- Peacemaking criminology -- Police and psychological screening -- Police brutality -- Police corruption -- Police use of force -- Police-minority Relations -- Prison construction -- Prison privatization -- Prison rape -- Prison sexual assault -- Prison violence in the Caribbean -- Prisoner experimentation -- Prisoner litigation -- Prisons-supermax -- Problem-solving courts -- Prosecutorial discretion -- Provoking assaults and high-profile crimes -- Racial profiling -- Restorative justice -- Risk management -- School violence -- Search warrants -- Second amendment -- Sentencing and judicial discretion -- Sentencing, determinate and indeterminate -- Sex offender laws -- Sex offender registries -- Sexual assault in colleges and universities -- Social justice -- Spiritual care of inmates -- Stalking laws -- State crime control -- Supremacy of international law to national law -- Surveillance-technological -- Three strikes -- Torture and enemy combatants -- Trial consultation -- Tribal court Criminal jurisdiction -- War on drugs.

There are many controversial aspects of our criminal justice system, and this encyclopedia examines the most significant controversies throughout American history with emphasis on current debates, trends, and issues. --from publisher description.