The how and why of criminal justice policy making is frequently overlooked in criminal justice texts. Stolz fills that gap with this reader, which introduces students to the study of criminal justice policy making at the federal level by drawing on the discipline of political science. Each chapter includes: BL academic and government publications that acquaint the reader with federal criminal justice policy-making structures and processes BL criminal justice policy-making issues related to each branch of government BL one or more political science frameworks, used to explain how governmental structures and processes affect criminal justice policy