Introduction to Criminal Justice-Using Critical and Creative Thinking to Seek for Justice

This edited collection of 30 thoughtful articles was carefully selected to bring questions of justice and criminal justice policy to the forefront. The articles are clustered into ten sections that cover a range of topics. Each article is followed by critical as well as creative thinking questions and a series of word games, such as crosswords, word scrambles and word searches, that help emphasize careful reading and a deeper understanding of the material. The pages are perforated for easy removal of the word games, which can be used as graded assignments.

Dr. Wendelin Hume has been an educator and researcher at the University of North Dakota for 23 years. She completed her undergraduate degree at Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota, and her graduate education in criminal justice and criminology at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Based in part on her experiences growing up on an Anishinabe reservation in Northwestern Ontario and on her work in the criminal justice field, her academic interests include tribal justice, restorative justice, and victim issues ranging from cybercrime to family violence. Dr. Hume created this reader and its exercises to emphasize the skills of critical and creative thinking and the ethical importance of maximizing the justice in our criminal justice system in a way that would engage readers and help their active reading. Her personal interests center around her family, her ranch, and contributing time and energy to her community and her undergraduate and graduate students.