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The rise of academic criminal justice programs from their beginnings at the University of California in the 1930s through the split into academic and vocational models during the later decades are described in this work. Academic politics and politicians are emphasized.

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Martin Alan Greenberg explores the origins of the two major types of citizen volunteer police--auxiliary and reserve--and examines the history and current practices of volunteer policing.

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Punishing Criminals is about sentencing theory and policy and the attempt to identify punishments other than imprisonment. He sees the need to locate sentencing policy decisions within the wider context of the criminal justice process and presents empirical evidence from ten years study of the California criminal justice system.

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This concise and accessible new text examines the correlations between runaway children and teenage prostitution in the United States from a criminological, sociological, and psychological perspective.

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Challenges criminologists to expand their spheres of inquiry through Shakespeare's use of law and justice themes.

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The author . . . . . . The author's well-documented readable work lends support to the contention that research in this area of crime problem is difficult, although feasible, and in the process fills a lacuna in the literature relative to elite categories of crime.

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In this volume, Xin Ren presents the tradition of law in China as an exception to the Western model of social control. She considers the Maoist concept of revolutionary justice and the tradition of conformist acculturation in China.