ABSTRACT
This chapter reiterates a critical thinking approach and focuses on a few current issues. It discusses the steps taken in preventing terrorist actions in America, and shows how that challenge overlaps with domestic criminal justice issues. Identity theft is both a state and a federal crime. In addition, crimes utilizing identity theft may violate federal wire-fraud and credit card fraud laws. Crime trends can be better understood when looking at longer periods of comparison. The Innocence Project refers to groups of attorneys and other volunteers in many states who take cases of inmates claiming innocence. Research is beginning to show that the huge increase in incarceration that occurred since the 1980s has not necessarily been helpful to the communities hardest hit by crime. Re-entry efforts have included job training/placement, drug treatment, and housing assistance, as these are identified as the major problems of those released from prison.
