The 20 chapters in Courts, Law, and Justice cover a wide range of sharply 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, during the trial process, and during the sentencing phase.

Crime and Criminal Behavior delves into such hotly debated topics as age of consent, euthanasia and assisted suicide, gambling, guns, internet pornography, marijuana and other drug laws, religious convictions, and terrorism and extremism.

We take a broad view of crime and punishment, and rather than becoming involved in the debate over what is crime, punishment, justice, and so forth, we have instead chosen to provide coverage for all topics that experts believe fall under the rubric of criminal justice. The 439 entries cover twelve major themes.

This encyclopedia includes entries by experts in the field which explore the scope of ethical decision-making and behaviours within the spheres of criminal justice systems, including policing, corrections, courts, forensic science, and policy analysis and research.

This serves as a reference source for anyone interested in the roots of contemporary criminological theory. Drawing together a team of international scholars, it examines the global landscape of all the key theories and the theorists behind them, presenting them in the context needed to understand their strengths and weaknesses.

Spanning two volumes of approximately 450 articles in an A-to-Z format, the encyclopedia explores this controversial war through the lens of varied disciplines, and a full spectrum of articles explains topics from Colombian cartels and Mexican kingpins to television reportage; from "just say no" advertising to heroin production; from narco-terrorism to over $500 billion in U.S. government expenditures.

This major four-volume encyclopedia set offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history.

The entries address a broad range of issues and topics, such as alcohol and drug abuse, arson, the death penalty for juveniles, computer and Internet crime, gun violence, gangs, missing children, school violence, teen pregnancy, and delinquency theories.

The three volumes of this resource represent interdisciplinary perspectives on law from sociology, criminology, cultural anthropology, political science, social psychology, and economics.

This three-volume Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement provides a comprehensive, critical, and descriptive examination of all facets of law enforcement on the state and local, federal and national, and international stages.

The United States confines more people per capita than any other equivalent industrialized, democratic country. This encyclopedia is a timely and necessary publication for anyone wishing to understand why confinement has become so commonplace in the United States.

This two-volume encyclopedia provides entries for important figures, legal cases, concepts and theories, correctional practices, courts, media drugs, juvenile justice, organizations, public policies, race riots and themes of violence that have impacted the fields of criminology and criminal justice since the 19th century.

This traditional A-to-Z reference has significant coverage of police and courts and other criminal justice sub-disciplines while also featuring thematic articles on the sociology of street crime.

The second edition of the Encyclopedia of Terrorism frankly and comprehensively engages the idiosyncrasies and features of the modern era of political violence. It is replete with new entries exploring the characteristics, challenges, and controversies of a dynamic and evolving post-9/11 era.

The victimology–crime prevention nexus provides the foundation for a comprehensive and, hopefully, long-lasting approach to addressing the public’s risk of being victimized and aids individuals who are targeted by a criminal act.

Provides crucial and contemporary information about antagonism and reconciliation within both the public and private realms.

Covers the specialties of forensic science, professional organizations, related fields, investigative techniques and technologies, crime scenes, law, and the stories of historic crimes and forensic mysteries.

The Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law is completely updated and expanded to include increased coverage in growing areas of international law including diplomatic law, criminal law, human rights, and more.

This handbook explores the links among ethnicity, crime, and immigration in various countries. It reviews the extant research on crime committed by and against immigrants, examines the myth of immigrants’ tendency to commit crime, and looks at the historic and contemporary role of race in debates about punishment.

This handbook shows how local police organizations in the United States have been the focus of reform efforts, especially due to a new crisis in the policing environment—terrorism. It also discusses the social ill that is the drug market, which is often associated with violence and often occurs in disadvantaged urban communities

A truly international and interdisciplinary reference work, the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History covers legal history from ancient to modern times.

This five-volume work surveys the history and philosophy of crime, punishment, and criminal justice institutions in America from colonial times to the present.

Designed for college students, law students, and general readers, this massive, thorough, and well planned 13-volume reference provides information on pertinent people, issues, and events, as well as discussion of the laws themselves.

The new, two-volume World of Forensic Science is a convenient, comprehensive guide to the scientific processes and the legal, social and ethical issues involved in the forensic sciences.