Introduction to Criminal Justice
Introduction to Criminal Justice

Author: Neil C. Chamelin

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780134800202

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This textbook is designed as an introduction to the backgrounds, philosophies, and interrelationships of the police, courts, and corrections. The three major sections follow the input, process, output model of a system. There is a general overview of the criminal justice system and the scope of the crime problem, a critical examination of historical perspectives; contemporary issues; the current state-of-the-art and the interrelationships of the police, law, the courts, and the correction-related elements of the criminal justice system. The section on the police subsystem discusses federal, state and local policing, management and support specialists, and operational specialist and generalist components. The section on criminal law and the courts considers the historical perspectives of the systems, moral considerations and law, courts in the united states, and the trial process. A survey of constitutional principles is also presented. The final section on corrections examines the development of corrections, jails and detention, probation, parole and other release procedures, correctional institutions and the institutional society, community-based corrections and the criminal justice system.

System Design Modeling and Metamodeling
System Design Modeling and Metamodeling

Author: John P. van Gigch

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1489906762

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This book is a venture in the worlds of modeling and of metamodeling. At this point, I will not reveal to readers what constitutes metamodeling. Suf fice it to say that the pitfalls and shortcomings of modeling can be cured only if we resort to a higher level of inquiry called metainquiry and metadesign. We reach this level by the process of abstraction. The book contains five chapters from my previous work, Applied General Systems Theory (Harper and Row, London and New York, First Edition 1974, Second Edition 1978). More than ten years after its publication, this material still appears relevant to the main thrust of system design. This book is dedicated to all those who are involved in changing the world for the better. In a way we all are involved in system design: from the city manager who struggles with the problems of mass transportation or the consolidation of a city and its suburbs to the social worker who tries to provide benefits to the urban poor. It includes the engineer who designs the shuttle rockets. It involves the politician engaged in drafting a bill to recycle containers, or one to prevent pesticide contamination of our food. The politician might even need system design to chart his or her own re-election campaign.