Criminal Justice Student Writer's Manual, The, 6th edition

Published by Pearson (February 7, 2014) © 2015

  • William A. Johnson
  • Richard P. Retting
  • Gregory M. Scott University of Central Oklahoma
  • Stephen M. Garrison University of Central Oklahoma
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For all courses in criminal justice.

The Criminal Justice Student Writer's Manual, is designed to help students learn how to research and write in criminal justice, and improve their writing ability in general. While helping students with every aspect of the writing process—formatting, source citations, grammar, sentence structure, research, and utilising available sources—it relieves instructors from the time consuming job of teaching these skills, and allows them to concentrate on the subject matter of the course they are teaching. This book is the most comprehensive book that deals specifically with writing criminal justice papers. It gives specific directions for writing a variety of papers in criminal justice, from introductory to advanced, while also providing instructions on “how to write,” and how to format the paper and cite sources following the American Sociological Association’s and the American Psychological Association’s guidelines.  

Teaching and Learning Experience

This comprehensive manual can be used throughout the reader's college and professional careers to help improve research and writing skills.  It provides:

  • A writing manual designed for the criminal justice field: Includes common types of criminal justice papers
  • Coverage of the writing process, grammar, writing mechanics and page formatting:
    • Helps students improve their writing
  • Coverage of the research process: Focuses on strategies and effective research methods
  • PART I  A HANDBOOK OF STYLE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE 
  • Chapter 1 Writing as Communication 
  • Chapter 2 Writing Competently 
  • PART II  PAPER FORMATS AND CITATIONS 
  • Chapter 3 Student Paper Formats 
  • Chapter 4 Citing Sources in ASA Style  (revised for this edition)
  • Chapter 5 Citing Sources in APA Style  (revised for this edition)
  • PART III  HOW TO CONDUCT RESEARCH IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE 
  • Chapter 6 Organizing the Research Process 
  • Chapter 7 Information Sources  (revised for this edition)
  • PART IV  BRIEF AND APPLIED WRITING ASSIGNMENTS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE 
  • Chapter 8 Reaction Papers 
  • Chapter 9 Article Critiques and Book Reviews 
  • Chapter 10 Annotated Bibliographies 
  • PART V  REPORT WRITING IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE 
  • Chapter 11 Writing a Police Report  
  • Chapter 12 Writing Probation and Parole Reports 
  • PART VI  CASE STUDIES AND POLICY ANALYSES 
  • Chapter 13 Criminal Justice Agency Case Studies 
  • Chapter 14 Criminal Justice Policy Analysis Papers  (revised for this edition)
  • Glossary 
  • References 
  • Index 

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