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MindTap Criminal Justice, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Hess/Hess Orthmann/Cho Introduction to Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, 12th Edition
Overview
MindTap for Hess/Orthmann/Cho's Introduction to Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice,12th Edition is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie cutter into cutting edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers.
MindTap for Introduction to Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice offers customizable content, course analytics, an accessible e-reader, and the single most applied learning experience available for this course – all within the learning management system you’re already using! MindTap prepares students to make the kinds of reasoned decisions they will need to make as future professionals faced with real-world challenges. With its rich array of media assets – all of which are tagged by learning objective and Bloom’s Taxonomy level – MindTap is perfectly suited for today’s Criminal Justice students, engaging them, guiding them toward mastery of basic concepts, and advancing their critical thinking abilities.
- Provide students with organizational and study tools designed to better manage their limited time, allowing them to complete assignments whenever and wherever they are ready to learn.
- Hone students’ real-world decision-making skills with each chapter’s You Decide branching activities related to scenarios students might encounter in their future careers. In addition to advancing critical thinking, these activities further development of critical thinking and writing skills and heighten the relevancy of chapter material.
- Save students money in their course materials with a single destination that reflects exactly what’s important to you, the instructor.
- Track students in real time with the Progress App and adjust the course as needed based analytics of interactivity in the course.
- With the MindTap Mobile App, you can keep your students informed of assignments, course due dates, or any changes to your course while also arming them with on-the-go study tools like flashcards and quizzing.
- Build and personalize your course by integrating your own content into the MindTap Reader using your own documents or pull from sources like RSS feeds, YouTube videos, websites, Google Docs and more. Control what content students see and when they see it with a learning path that can be used as-is or matched to your syllabus exactly.
- Empower students with the information to know where they stand at all times—both individually and compared to the highest performers in class within the student view of the Progress App.
- Equip students to do better research with the Questia App, which features 24/7 online access to thousands of full texts and millions of academic journal and periodical articles along with a complete suite of organizational and productivity tools as well as instructional tutorials on such key topics as “Evaluating Sources” and “Paraphrasing Sources” to “Avoiding Plagiarism” and “Working with Documentation Styles”.
- Enable students to build ePortfolios using the Pathbrite App that allows them to highlight the skills that extend beyond their GPAs, giving potential employers a more holistic presentation of each candidate’s experience.
Learning Objectives: Chapter-opening learning outcomes spotlight what’s important.
Visual Summary: Interactive graphic that captures key concepts as a means of both previewing and reinforcing reading. The Visual Summary enables students to see how the key concepts fit together and get more information about each concept.
Reading: Convenient e-reader with integrated visuals and easily accessible notetaking, flashcard, ReadSpeak, and Questia apps.
You Decide: Places the student in the role of a criminal justice professional. In the first part of the assignment, students must make two reasoned decisions based on the information in the scenario and what they learned in the chapter, with the second decision they make being determined by their first decision. The concluding feedback helps tie the concepts in the scenario back to the learning objectives in the chapter. In the second part of the assignment, students must write a short essay explaining the rationale behind their decisions. Rubrics provided.
Exam: 25 multiple-choice questions that test students on the key concepts in the chapter.
Writing Skill Builder: A 2-part activity consisting of the Writing Review – 2-3 exercises that review basic writing skills (sentence structure, citing sources, etc.) – and the Writing Practice, an essay prompt where students apply the CJ decision-making model to a criminal justice scenario and practice the specific writing skill they just reviewed. Rubrics provided.
Interactive Forensics Labs: Simulations which allow students to explore the specific techniques used to process crime scenes – from the longstanding study of latent fingerprints, to the newer, more cutting-edge technology involved in DNA profiling and cybercrime.
Careers in Criminal Justice App. A career rolodex, video interviews with practicing criminal justice professionals, career planning information, and much more.
Study Skill Builder. A quick review of basic study skills – managing time, using the textbook effectively, taking notes, etc. – in addition to brief writing and presentation guides.
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- ISBN-10: 1305968875
- ISBN-13: 9781305968875
- RETAIL $84.95
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Introduction to Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice
ISBN: 9781305968769
Fully updated to reflect the latest changes in the field, this new edition provides comprehensive, practical coverage of both law enforcement and the criminal justice system as a whole (including courts, corrections, and juvenile justice) in one convenient volume. Acclaimed for its uniquely accessible writing style, many real-world examples, and its realistic and relevant "boots on the street" perspective, this new edition is packed with up-to-date information on today's hottest topics. These include the numerous ways technology is changing the day-to-day operations of policing; the recommendations of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, including the need to improve trust and legitimacy with the public and a shift to a guardian mindset; the law enforcement response to new terrorism threats such as ISIS and homegrown violent extremists, the consequences of Brady-Giglio violations, and more. What’s more, the MindTap that accompanies this text helps students practice and master techniques and key concepts while engaging them with video cases, career-based decision-making scenarios, visual summaries, and more.