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.
Wrongful Conviction and Criminal Justice Reform: Making Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Marvin Zalman, Julia Carrano
November 01, 2013
Wrongful Conviction and Criminal Justice Reform is an important addition to the literature and teaching on innocence reform. This book delves into wrongful convictions studies but expands upon them by offering potential reforms that would alleviate the problem of wrongful convictions in the ...
Crime and Networks
1st Edition
Edited
By Carlo Morselli
September 26, 2013
This innovative collection of original essays showcases the use of social networks in the analysis and understanding of various forms of crime. More than any other past research endeavor, the seventeen chapters in this book apply to criminology the many conceptual and methodological options from ...
Race, Law, and American Society: 1607-Present
2nd Edition
By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
April 18, 2013
This second edition of Gloria Browne-Marshall’s seminal work , tracing the history of racial discrimination in American law from colonial times to the present, is now available with major revisions. Throughout, she advocates for freedom and equality at the center, moving from their struggle for ...
Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice: Causes and Remedies in North American and European Criminal Justice Systems
1st Edition
Edited
By C. Ronald Huff, Martin Killias
February 26, 2013
This innovative work builds on Huff and Killias’ earlier publication (2008), but is broader and more thoroughly comparative in a number of important ways: (1) while focusing heavily on wrongful convictions, it places the subject of wrongful convictions in the broader contextual framework of ...
Crime and the Life Course
2nd Edition
By Michael L. Benson
July 26, 2012
In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime. Yet despite its growing importance in the field of criminology, most textbooks give it only cursory treatment. Crime and the Lifecourse: An Introduction by Michael L. Benson provides a ...
When Crime Appears: The Role of Emergence
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean McGloin, Christopher Sullivan, Leslie Kennedy
October 19, 2011
In recent years, the idea of emergence, which suggests that observed patterns in behavior and events are not fully reductive and stem from complex lower-level interactions, has begun to take hold in the social sciences. Criminologists have started to use this framework to improve our general ...
A Theory of African American Offending: Race, Racism, and Crime
1st Edition
By James D. Unnever, Shaun L. Gabbidon
February 28, 2011
A little more than a century ago, the famous social scientist W.E.B. Du Bois asserted that a true understanding of African American offending must be grounded in the "real conditions" of what it means to be black living in a racial stratified society. Today and according to official statistics, ...
Corrections: Foundations for the Future
2nd Edition
By Jeanne B. Stinchcomb
February 11, 2011
"Jeanne Stinchcomb’s book makes an excellent contribution to the field of corrections serving as a substantial resource for those teaching corrections and as a practical inspiration for those students who will ultimately lead the profession. Stinchomb carefully crafts a balanced perspective that ...
Community Policing: A Police-Citizen Partnership
1st Edition
By Michael Palmiotto
January 10, 2011
This textbook discusses the role of community-oriented policing, including the police image, public expectations, ethics in law enforcement, community wellness, civilian review boards, and what the community can do to help decrease crime rates. In addition, the author covers basic interpersonal ...
The New Criminal Justice: American Communities and the Changing World of Crime Control
1st Edition
Edited
By John Klofas, Natalie Kroovand Hipple, Edmund McGarrell
February 23, 2010
Criminal Justice in the United States is in the midst of momentous changes: an era of low crime rates not seen since the 1960s, and a variety of budget crunches also exerting profound impacts on the system. This is the first book available to chronicle these changes and suggest a new, emerging ...
The Policing of Terrorism: Organizational and Global Perspectives
1st Edition
By Mathieu Deflem
December 16, 2009
This book offers an analysis of the policing of terrorism in a variety of national and international contexts. Centered on developments since the events of September 11, 2001, the study devotes its empirical attention to important police aspects of counter-terrorism in the United States and ...
Lifers: Seeking Redemption in Prison
1st Edition
By John Irwin
June 23, 2009
John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty ...