The Criminal Justice System: An Introduction, Fifth Edition incorporates the latest developments in the field while retaining the basic organization of previous editions which made this textbook so popular.
A RUSA Outstanding Reference Source 2025This wide-ranging resource provides an authoritative overview of the criminal justice system in America, including its history, legal and philosophical foundations, dimensions of racial and economic inequality, and insights into daily life inside America's complex court and correctional systems.
First published in 1972, Inside the Underworld gives a general picture of the underworld, showing it as it really is, stripped of romanticism and popular misconceptions-a non-stop resistance movement against the forces of law and order, whose ranks include both the weak and the strong, the skilled and the bungling.
First published in 1972, Inside the Underworld gives a general picture of the underworld, showing it as it really is, stripped of romanticism and popular misconceptions-a non-stop resistance movement against the forces of law and order, whose ranks include both the weak and the strong, the skilled and the bungling.
In the early 1970s Irish prisons were overcrowded - there were few rehabilitation programs, medical care was limited, psychiatric care was practically nonexistent, and brutality was commonplace.
This book develops principles of proper sentence justification, presents results of comparative empirical study on sentence justifications in the post-communist countries and provides practical measures to improve the current situation.
Im österreichischen Justizsystem werden Personen, die aufgrund einer psychischen Erkrankung gegen geltendes Recht verstoßen haben, in speziellen forensisch-therapeutischen Zentren auf unbestimmte Zeit untergebracht und betreut.
Im österreichischen Justizsystem werden Personen, die aufgrund einer psychischen Erkrankung gegen geltendes Recht verstoßen haben, in speziellen forensisch-therapeutischen Zentren auf unbestimmte Zeit untergebracht und betreut.
The first volume of the Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World series introduced readers to the great diversity that exists cross-culturally in the political, social, and economic context of the correctional system.
Discover a Transformative Path to a New BeginningStep into a narrative of hope and resilience with Rebuilding Freedom: A Roadmap to Life After Incarceration.
Discover a Transformative Path to a New BeginningStep into a narrative of hope and resilience with Rebuilding Freedom: A Roadmap to Life After Incarceration.
While increasing attention has been directed to the legal and criminological aspects of situational crime prevention, focused ethical discussion of the measures involved has been notable by its absence.
This balanced book illuminates Republican and Democratic responses and attitudes toward crime, police work, sentencing, incarceration, and rehabilitation in the USA.
Challenging the Northern-centric approach that has dominated the literature on punishment-and-society, Punishment in Latin America draws on innovative theoretical perspectives to make sense of punishment, penal trends, institutions and practices in peripheral settings, taking Latin American countries as its case studies.
Finalist: PROSE Awards 2025 - Education Theory and PracticeWritten by activists and scholars based in Australia, Kenya, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, Uganda and the USA, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Prison Education offers the first global state-of-the-field overview of research into educational practices and programs in prisons.
This balanced book illuminates Republican and Democratic responses and attitudes toward crime, police work, sentencing, incarceration, and rehabilitation in the USA.
Ob sich intra- und extramural Strafgefangene hinsichtlich ihrer späteren Legalbewährung unterscheiden, und inwieweit die gewählte Vollzugsform hierfür als Einflussfaktor agiert, ist Gegenstand dieser empirischen Rückfalluntersuchung.
This book is the first comparative law study of collateral consequences of criminal conviction in all federally recognized Indian tribes in the lower 48 U.
The Unmaking of Crime documents the pathways of offenders reforming their journey and desisting from crime, and assesses the opportunities and limitations of the criminal justice system in aiding this process.
This authoritative, balanced, and accessible reference resource provides readers with a wide-ranging survey of capital punishment in America, including its history, its legal and cultural foundations, and racial and economic factors in its application.
A RUSA Outstanding Reference Source 2025This wide-ranging resource provides an authoritative overview of the criminal justice system in America, including its history, legal and philosophical foundations, dimensions of racial and economic inequality, and insights into daily life inside America's complex court and correctional systems.
Refundacion penitenciara de Jalisco analiza los diversos sistemas internacionales que se han aplicado, a traves del historial en el ambito penitenciario.
While increasing attention has been directed to the legal and criminological aspects of situational crime prevention, focused ethical discussion of the measures involved has been notable by its absence.
This book offers a new and innovative way of thinking about desistance from crime, fusing our understanding of desistance transitions, youth transitions, and the impact of significant policy change on people with convictions in a way which is yet to be seen in the available desistance literature.
Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s through the 1850s.
In Life beside Bars, Heath Pearson showcases dynamic, interdependent community as the best hope for undoing the systems of confinement that reproduce capital in Cumberland County, New Jersey-a place that is home to three state prisons, one federal prison, and the regional jail.
