1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of U.S. Federal Criminal Justice
Part I: Overview
1. American Federal Criminal Justice
Jeff Bumgarner
2. Overview of Federal Law Enforcement
Julie Barrows
Part II: Federal Law Enforcement Agencies
3. America’s Premier Detective Bureau: The FBI
Eric Dlugolenski
4. Enforcement of Federal Drug Policy: The DEA and the War on Drugs
Gillian Munoz and John Stogner
5. Protecting the President: The U.S. Secret Service
Thorvald Dahle
6. Federal Law Enforcement for Natural Resource Protection in the United States
Tom Mrozla
Part III: The Federal Correctional System
7. Federal Bureau of Prisons and Mental Health Treatment
Michele P. Bratina and Timothy L. Chesnik
8. Federal Sentencing: The Past, Present, and Future
Ming-Li Hsieh
9. The Federal Death Penalty
Nancy Marion
Part IV: The Federal Judiciary and Legal Processes
10. The Federal Courtroom Work Group
Michele Bisaccia Meitl and Rashann Deshay
11. Special Counsels: Independent Prosecutors in an Era of Political Polarization
Jeff Bumgarner
12. RICO vs. Organized Crime (and Beyond)
Nancy Marion
13. Youth in the Federal Criminal Justice System
Sara N. Lucak and Jennifer H. Peck
Part V: Contemporary Issues
14. Federal/State/Local Criminal Justice Partnerships
Carla Lewandowski
15. Federal Consent Decrees: Pattern or Practice Investigations and Intervention
T. Mark Brown
Biography
Jeff Bumgarner, PhD, is a professor and director of the School of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Texas State University. He holds a BA in political science from the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, an MA in public administration and policy from Northern Illinois University, and a PhD in organization development from the University of Minnesota, the focus of which was on criminal justice organizational contexts. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of 10 different books and many articles and book chapters. His scholarly interests include federal law enforcement, homeland security, and federal crime policy. In addition to his academic experience, Dr Bumgarner has several years of experience in local and federal law enforcement.
