Heith Copes & Mark R. Pogrebin (Eds.), Voices from Criminal Justice: Thinking and Reflecting on the System

Authors

Joshua B. Hill, Tiffin University

Abstract

"The introductory criminal justice “reader” is a difficult text to get right. The material should not be too advanced for the student (most likely a first-year undergraduate student) to understand, but also cannot oversimplify the topic and risk either insulting students or not conveying an appropriate sense of the complexity of the criminal justice system. Voices from Criminal Justice: Thinking and Reflecting on the System, a new compilation of readings published by Routledge and edited by Heith Copes and Mark Pogrebin, attempts to thread this needle in an interesting way by framing the book as a series of perspectives from the field, rather than about it. This approach in most areas of the text succeeds, but the reader is also faced with minor flaws as well."

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Recommended Citation

Hill, Joshua B. (2014) "Heith Copes & Mark R. Pogrebin (Eds.), Voices from Criminal Justice: Thinking and Reflecting on the System," Qualitative Criminology (QC): Vol. 2: No. 1, Article 9.
Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/qc/vol2/iss1/9