Research Methods: Studying Urban Crime examines aspects of crime from a variety of perspectives and describes how researchers can conduct effective and valuable research in the discipline. Utilising an urban context, the contributed chapters provide strategies for exploring various elements of crime and a solid knowledge base on crime-related ......
Through a socio-legal, socio-psychological, and socio-historical analysis of race and the history of American political rhetoric on crime, Race and Criminal Justice History: Rhetoric, Politics, and Policy provides a foundation for understanding how Blacks are perceived and how long-standing negative perceptions have influenced their interactions ......
Investigating and Prosecuting Corruption: An Anthology features a collection of curated readings that help students learn about the history of corruption in the United States and around the world. The book educates readers regarding the specific legal meaning of corruption and reviews the framework of laws used to combat corruption nationally and ......
Transnational organized crime poses a significant and growing threat to national and international security. Not only are criminal networks expanding, they also are diversifying their criminal activities, resulting in the convergence of threats that were once distinct and today have even more explosive and destabilizing effects. Transnational ......
Extremism in the United States presents students with a collection of articles that chronicle the development of violent white supremacist extremism in the United States from the Know-Nothing era to the January 6 insurrection. The book examines how right-wing groups mobilized in the last half of the 20th century to become a strong negative ......
Inside Criminal Justice: Thinking about Police, Courts, and Corrections provides students with a comprehensive and critical exploration of the U.S. criminal justice system. Opening chapters introduce criminal justice as a system, a career, and an academic discipline; identify the main types of crimes in American jurisprudence; define crime; and ......
Thinking About Criminal Justice: A Reader helps students cultivate greater levels of critical thinking skills and question long-standing criminal justice policies and aspects of the criminal justice system. The anthology presents readers with a tool called a Critical Thinking Scan (CTS), which challenges them to analyze the readings in the text ......
A Practical Guide to Criminal Justice: Curated Introductory Readings provides students with a collection of articles that detail the inner workings of the criminal justice system, highlight firsthand experiences within it, present key definitions in the field, and pose challenging questions to help them develop critical thought. The opening ......
Criminal Typologies: Exploring Crime and Criminal Behavior provides students with an insightful exploration into the study of crime types and criminals. The text is organized into five modules. The opening module discusses the academic study of crime types and criminals, key issues in the study of crime, and the process of developing a criminal ......