Criminal Justice In Israel: An Annotated Bibliography of English Language Publications, 1948-1993

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This first comprehensive guide to English-language criminal justice materials on Israel covers over 820 sources written between 1948 and 1993. The books, book chapters, articles, and annual and other professional reports have been written by both Israeli and non-Israeli authors. The topic was defined broadly to serve students, teachers, researchers, and professionals in different disciplines and to review the important literature on a score of topics, such as addiction, corrections and probation, correctional treatment, crime and society, homicide, juvenile delinquency, organized crime, law enforcement, rape and violence, suicide, terrorism, and white collar crime. Keywords with each entry and a detailed author, journal, and subject index make the research easily accessible. This first comprehensive guide to English-language criminal justice materials on Israel covers over 820 sources written between 1948 and 1993. The books, book chapters, articles, and annual and other professional reports have been written by both Israeli and non-Israeli authors. The bibliography also points to important works on criminal justice generally by Israeli authors. The topic was defined broadly to serve students, teachers, researchers, and professionals in different disciplines, and a typology was created for this purpose. The bibliography is organized into 21 topical chapters on a score of topics: addiction, corrections and probation, correctional treatment, crime and society, crime by and among the aged, criminal justice, criminology and deviant behavior, fear of crime, homicide-aggression-violence, juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, law, law enforcement, organized crime, political deviance and violence, rape and violence, social stress, suicide, terrorism, traffic offenses, victimology, and white collar crime. Keywords with each entry and a detailed author, journal, and subject index make the research easily accessible.

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This interesting and useful annotated bibliography offers a compilation of references in the English language that highlights the contributions of Israeli social scientists to the general literature in criminal justice....In addition to scholars interested in the Israeli criminal justice system, individuals studying comparative criminal justice will find the compilation useful.-Journal of Criminal Justice
This is an interesting bibliography of criminal justice in a country that is less than a half-century old but in which the system of justice and due process appears mature and well grounded in the daily life of the people-- ARBA
"This is an interesting bibliography of criminal justice in a country that is less than a half-century old but in which the system of justice and due process appears mature and well grounded in the daily life of the people-"- ARBA
"This interesting and useful annotated bibliography offers a compilation of references in the English language that highlights the contributions of Israeli social scientists to the general literature in criminal justice....In addition to scholars interested in the Israeli criminal justice system, individuals studying comparative criminal justice will find the compilation useful."-Journal of Criminal Justice

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ROBERT R. FRIEDMANN, Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University in Atlanta, is also the founder and director of the Georgia criminal justice Statistical Analysis Bureau and of the Georgia-International Law Enforcement Exchange Program there. He has held teaching positions at the University of Haifa and the University of Minnesota. His research interests and published works focus on community policing. His most recent books is Community Policing: Comparative Perspectives and Prospects (1992), and he is currently editing a book on the state of criminal justice in Israel.