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How does the criminal justice system operate? What are the important issues? The controversial ones? Get answers to these and other valuable questions with this introduction to the topic. This book is not just a compilation of criminal justice facts, but is a provocative and stimulating look at the criminals justice system. It presents a critical examination of the criminal justice system by comparing and contrasting the war on crime perspective with a peacemaking perspective. It also covers important issues in their own chapter - drug abuse, violence, capital punishment, youth crime and gangs, and gun control. Novice lawyers, police officers, social workers.