With millions of offenders serving community corrections sentences each day in the United States, the topic of community corrections could not be more important than it is today. This text provides a detailed exploration and examination into the journeys of community corrections offenders.
Comparative and International Policing, Justice, and Transnational Crime provides thought-provoking original articles written by international criminal justice, policing, and legal scholars.
The goal of this book is to provide a stripped-down version of most traditional textbooks and provide a more affordable option for students while still conveying the core elements of corrections.
Few textbooks address the issue of prisoner rights and correctional law using a penological approach to examine correctional management, policies and practices. It is within this context that the current work offers theoretical framework that enables readers to better understand the rationale behind the laws that pertain to correctional practice and the decisions, reached by justices in prisoners’ litigation cases, which led to change in correctional policies.
Crime and Criminal Justice in Disaster aims to answer two questions: Why do some people take advantage of the disruption that disaster causes to commit crime, and what can be done about it?
As an introductory guide, the goal of this book is to provide students of law enforcement, criminalists, members of the justice system, law enforcement professionals, and anyone interested in the field a starting point in understanding the pivotal relationship between police, the investigator, and the scientist in service of the law.
Crime Online uses empirical tests and unique data to provide detailed criminological explorations of multiple forms of cybercrime, including phishing, hacking, and sex crimes.
The third edition of Crime Victim Rights and Remedies continues to address the evolution of key crime victim rights (e.g., the rights to notice of and to be present and heard at criminal justice proceedings) and includes the state constitutional amendments, legislation, court decisions, and empirical studies completed since the second edition in 2010.
This text addresses the full spectrum of victimization from “victimless” crimes to repeat victimizations and provides students with an understanding of why victimization occurs, how victims deal with the aftereffects, what services are available to victims, and how professionals in the criminal justice, medical, religious, and therapeutic fields can both help and hinder victims’ journeys toward recovery.