Criminal Justice

This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive summary of correctional systems and practices and their evolution throughout US history.

Covers the correctional system and offers arguments for and against the practice of the laws and policies that comprise corrections, from parole and probation to imprisonment, to the application of the death penalty.

Covers highly contested topics, including drug and gun control laws as well as the ins and outs of the criminal justice system as encountered by arrested suspects.

Covers topics such as the age of consent, euthanasia and assisted suicide, gambling, guns, internet pornography, marijuana and other drug laws, religious convictions, and terrorism and extremism.

Looks at the history, developments, emerging and classic research issues, controversies, and victories in the expanding field of criminal psychology.

Explores all aspects of community corrections, from its philosophical foundation to its inception in the 1970s through current day issues regarding this aspect of the criminal justice system.

Covers a wide variety of topics within the fields of criminal justice, sociology, and law.

Law, sociology, criminology, anthropology, political science, and economics perspectives on law and society.

A comprehensive electronic book with entries on the history and current topics of law enforcement.

Addresses research and practice in the interface of psychology and law.

Examines the role race and ethnicity play in society. Covers intergroup relations in the United States and the comparative examination of race and ethnicity worldwide.

The economic, sociological, historical, anthropological and scientific aspects of race and racism

Overview essays address the history of such topics as citizenship, due process, Native Americans, racism, and contraception, emphasizing the social context of each and the social and political pressures that shaped interpretation.

Covers current literature on crime, justice and gender to understand and analyze women as both offenders of and victims of crime. Topics include domestic violence, gender and human trafficking, rape and sexual offences, gender issues in policing, probation, parole, and more.

"Explains legal terms and concepts in everyday language. Covers a wide variety of topics including specific legislation, persons, entities, movements, and events that have shaped the U.S. legal system and influenced public perception of American law"--

Presents arguments both in favor of and opposed to various treatments, programs, and punishments, examining issues such as youth curfews, juveniles in adult courts, legal representation for juveniles, juvenile boot camps, group homes, and out-of-home placement.

Features more than 600 of the most important and influential cases in American history. It contains concise summaries, analyzing and explaining groundbreaking court cases on such issues as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, civil rights, labor unions, abortion, antitrust and competition, due process, search and seizure, and executive privilege.

Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court includes new entries on key cases and full treatment of crucial areas of constitutional law, such as abortion, freedom of religion, school desegregation, freedom of speech, voting rights, military tribunals, and the rights of the accused.

Provides comprehensive coverage of political and legal history in the United States.

Coverage includes diplomatic law, criminal law, human rights, and more.

Examines many aspects of policing in society, including their common duties, legal regulations on those duties, problematic policing practices, and alternatives to traditional policing.

This five-volume work surveys the history and philosophy of crime, punishment, and criminal justice institutions in America from colonial times to the present. It covers the whole of the criminal justice system, from crimes, law enforcement and policing, to courts, corrections and human services.

Provides historical and statistical information on the Supreme Court: its institutional development; caseload; decision trends; the background, nomination, and voting behavior of its justices,

Beginning in 1989, the Supreme Court Yearbook summarizes reviews the cases seen by the Supreme Court, provides overviews on important topics.

Primary source documents focusing on terrorism

Provides current information on more than 5,000 legal topics, covering important issues and hot topics, biographies, definitions of legal terms and more.

Updated version of the 1989 encyclopedia. Entries cover correctional systems worldwide, and include thematic entries on topics in criminal justice