"Several years ago, we embarked on a journey to create affordable texts that engage students without sacrificing academic rigor. We tested this new format with Fagin's CJ 2010 and Schmalleger's Criminology and received overwhelming support from students and instructors. The Justice Series expands this format and philosophy to more core CJ and criminology courses, providing affordable, engaging instructor and student resources across the curriculum. As you flip through the pages, you'll notice that this book doesn't rely on ...
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"Several years ago, we embarked on a journey to create affordable texts that engage students without sacrificing academic rigor. We tested this new format with Fagin's CJ 2010 and Schmalleger's Criminology and received overwhelming support from students and instructors. The Justice Series expands this format and philosophy to more core CJ and criminology courses, providing affordable, engaging instructor and student resources across the curriculum. As you flip through the pages, you'll notice that this book doesn't rely on distracting, overly used photos to add visual appeal. Every piece of art serves a purpose-to help students learn. Our authors and instructional designers worked tirelessly to build engaging infographics, flowcharts, pull-out statistics, and other visuals that flow with the body of the text, provide context and engagement, and promote recall and understanding. We organized our content around key learning objectives for each chapter and tied everything together in a new objective- driven end-of-chapter layout. The content not only is engaging to students, but also is easy to follow and focuses students on the key learning objectives. Although brief, affordable, and visually engaging, the Justice Series is no quick, cheap way to appeal to the lowest common denominator. It's a series of texts and support tools that are instructionally sound and student-approved"--
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