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.
The first of its kind, this volume brings together essays by respected experts in national security and related fields on the many legal dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Crim Pro 360° provides a comprehensive way for students to learn all of the core material for a criminal investigation course and to practice what they have learned.
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.
Criminal Injustice examines the influence of politics and ideology on criminal justice practice. The book clearly illustrates that criminal justice practice is directly and meaningfully impacted by politics and ideology, beginning with law-making.
Criminal Law: Concepts, Crimes, and Defenses is a new first-year text structured to facilitate students' comprehensive understanding of criminal law principles, foundational crimes, defenses, and modes of liability.