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Providing a vigilant reminder that the criminal justice system is not a value-neutral system that operates without regard to ethnicity or race, this book contains critical analyses of aspects of the criminal justice system with regard to African Americans. Free Jr. (author of African Americans and t

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Showing informants in a variety of contexts provides a broader picture of them, and highlights the potential pitfalls associated with their use within our criminal justice system.

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This examination of our nation's sex crime laws and the social attitudes behind them argues that many citizens are being pursued as sex offenders for nonviolent and oftentimes consensual sexual behaviors.

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By offering a look at common rehabilitation programs currently in operation - education, job training, and drug treatment - and examining how they are used or misused, Lin offers an approach to understanding their failure rate and how the situation could be improved.

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Relating the kibbutz experience to theories of social psychology and criminology, Fischer and Geiger offer a model for resocialization combining group dynamics with social learning in a context of meaningful work and acceptance.

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Examines not only how therapeutic strategies deviate from traditional judiciary proceedings, but also how these differences reflect changes afoot in American culture and conceptions of justice. This work analyzes a different type of courtroom drama in which the judge engages directly and regularly with the defendant-turned-client.

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This book provides an up to date and critical account of recent developments in criminal justice which reflect restorative justice principles.

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This book provides an up to date and critical account of recent developments in criminal justice which reflect restorative justice principles.

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This is a review and synthesis of the literature on white-collar crime. One of the unique themes of the work is an ongoing comparison between white-collar and conventional crime with the implication that learning about white-collar crime simultaneously teaches us something about conventional crime and criminal justice.

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Sentencing: A Reference Handbook offers a complete overview of the complex sentencing procedures devised by the federal government and each of the 50 states.

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This the first book to focus specifically on serial killers motivated by monetary gain.

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Serial murder cases motivate the media in unfortunate ways, and the result is that even typically respectable media organizations can be involved in such things as document theft, or in interfering with the capture of serial murderers on the run.

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This book brings together experts in the fields of criminology, computer science, sociology, police science, victimology, psychology, oral history, and systems analysis, focussing their eclectic knowledge on the study of serial murder.

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Victims and their families will especially benefit from the information in this book, but all readers will gain insight into the crimes, their incidence, their impact on victims, and the way the criminal justice system responds, from the scene of the crime through the capture and incarceration of the perpetrators.

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A contemporary, fact-filled resource on the historical, legal, medical, and political aspects of a wide variety of sexual crimes.

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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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Coming to America to make a better life has long been a dream of many from around the world, even if it means being smuggled into the country to gain entry. This book examines how human smuggling and trafficking activities to the United States are carried out and explores the legal and policy challenges of dealing with these problems.

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Where other books have discussed selected social practices in China, this volume is unique in its coverage of the entire social control apparatus of that country.

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This book explores new directions in contemporary theorising about the impact of social and cultural dynamics on crime and social control.

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This revealing and compelling title analyzes the illegal trade in endangered species from a criminological viewpoint and presents specific crime reduction techniques that could help save thousands of species from extinction.

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Little attention has been paid to the lives led by families of prisoners. Using a feminist approach, the author explores how the lives of 25 wives of prisoners at Soledad prison are affected by the incarceration of their husbands.