Criminology and Justice Studies
About the Book Series
Criminology and Justice Studies publishes books for undergraduate and graduate courses that model the best scholarship and innovative thinking in the criminology and criminal justice field today, but in a style that connects this scholarship to a wide audience of students, researchers, and possibly the general public.
White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective
4th Edition
By Michael L. Benson, Sally S. Simpson, Melissa Rorie, Jay P. Kennedy
January 22, 2024
White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense. The authors explicate the processes and situational conditions that facilitate ...
Gratuitous Angst in White America: A Theory of Whiteness and Crime
1st Edition
By Deena A. Isom
December 19, 2023
Gratuitous Angst in White America presents a new criminological theory that explains the racialized experiences of white people. Unlike orthodox traditions that assume whiteness as normative or progressive traditions that center the experiences of the marginalized and oppressed, the theory of ...
Violence in the Heights: The Torn Social Fabric of Inner-City Neighborhoods
1st Edition
By Eileen M. Ahlin
June 30, 2023
Given the media attention and research focus on big cities with large minority populations, people have grown accustomed to associating violence with these attributes. Violence in the Heights counters that narrative to provide a fresh perspective on inner-city violence with a close look at violence...
Human Trafficking: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
3rd Edition
Edited
By Mary C. Burke
February 28, 2022
In Human Trafficking: Interdisciplinary Perspectives experts from a wide range of disciplinary and professional backgrounds provide a uniquely comprehensive understanding of human trafficking in the twenty-first century. Chapter authors consider historical, sociocultural, legal, public health, ...
She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power – 1619 to 1969
1st Edition
By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
November 30, 2020
She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power – 1619 to 1969 proves that The Black Woman liberated herself. Readers go on a journey from the invasion of Africa into the Colonial period and the Civil Rights Movement. The Black Woman reveals power, from Queen Nzingha to Shirley Chisholm.In ...
Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice: An International Dilemma
2nd Edition
By Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Shaun L. Gabbidon
September 25, 2020
Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice: An International Dilemma, Second Edition, takes a unique comparative approach to the exploration of race- and ethnicity-related justice issues in five countries around the world. Using the colonial model as a theoretical lens, Owusu-Bempah and Gabbidon analyse ...
Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America
1st Edition
By Shaun L. Gabbidon, George E. Higgins
June 03, 2020
Winner of the 2022 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award!Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America lays out the results of nearly two decades of research on racial profiling in retail settings. Gabbidon and Higgins address the generally neglected racial ...
Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime
4th Edition
By Shaun L. Gabbidon
January 23, 2020
Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime, Fourth Edition, is the only text to look at the array of mainstream and unconventional explanations for crime as they relate to racial and ethnic populations. Each chapter begins with a historical review of each theoretical perspective and how its ...
Voices from Criminal Justice: Insider Perspectives, Outsider Experiences
2nd Edition
Edited
By Heith Copes, Mark Pogrebin
November 17, 2016
Voices from Criminal Justice, Second Edition, gives students rich insight into the criminal justice system from the point of view of practitioners, as well as outsiders—citizens, clients, jurors, probationers, or inmates. These qualitative and teachable articles cover all three ...
Research Methods in Crime and Justice
2nd Edition
By Brian Withrow
November 14, 2016
Research Methods in Crime and Justice, 2nd Edition, is an innovative text/online hybrid for undergraduate Criminal Justice Research Methods courses. This material uniquely addresses the fundamental teaching issue for this course: how to show students that success as criminal justice practitioners ...
Criminal Justice Theory: Explaining the Nature and Behavior of Criminal Justice
2nd Edition
Edited
By Edward Maguire, David Duffee
March 03, 2015
Criminal Justice Theory, Second Edition is the first and only text, edited by U.S. criminal justice educators, on the theoretical foundations of criminal justice, not criminological theory. This new edition includes entirely new chapters as well as revisions to all others, with an eye to ...
Questioning Capital Punishment: Law, Policy, and Practice
1st Edition
By James R. Acker
June 24, 2014
The death penalty has inspired controversy for centuries. Raising questions regarding capital punishment rather than answering them, Questioning Capital Punishment offers the footing needed to allow for more informed consideration and analysis of these controversies. Acker edits judicial decisions ...