Criminal Justice: Background Sources

21st Century Criminology: A Reference Handbook provides straightforward and definitive overviews of 100 key topics comprising traditional criminology and its modern outgrowths.

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.

"Authoritative and comprehensive, this multivolume set includes hundreds of articles in the field of criminal justice."

Among the main themes represented in the entry topics are sociology of law, demography of law, anthropology of law, and criminology.

Among the general themes covered: agencies and organizations, statistics, culture, drug enforcement, investigative techniques, minority issues, personnel issues, policing strategies, terrorism, and victims/witnesses.

This two-volume encyclopedia for race and crime topics 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.

Focusing on crimes and their prevention at an individual level, this two-volume reference does not encompass the theory or practicalities of economic, educational, and health system factors.

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

The "Criminal Justice Student Writers Manual" is designed to teach beginning students how to conduct criminal justice research and write papers in the discipline.