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This supplementary reader includes carefully selected readings that focus on crime and criminal justice in countries other than the United States. These readings offer specific cases and examples to add dimension and interest to the theories presented in the primary text used in the class. The level of analysis is an ideal entry point for students taking a first criminology course. A brief guide correlating each reading with the relevant chapters of four of the top selling criminology books is a...

For sophomore/senior-level courses in Probation and Parole and Community Corrections.Featuring a front-line practitioner's insights based on the author's extensive experience as a senior New York State parole officer, this text exposes students to the complex, "real" world of probation and parole. Comprehensive in approach, it explores the cutting-edge of both practice and theory with regard to all aspects of adult and juvenile probation, institutions, and parole.

This revised and updated edition of "the most critically acclaimed book" (Publishers Weekly) on domestic violence includes new information on the effect of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, examines resources on the Internet, and details what you can do to help stop battering.

Offender profiling is an investigative tool used to narrow down the range of potential suspects for a crime by predicting the personality, behavioral, and demographic characteristics that an offender is likely to possess, based upon information collected at the crime scene. While offender profiling has been popularized by TV shows and movies such as Criminal Minds, Silence of the Lambs, and Mindhunter, the real-world impact of offender profiling is largely unknown. This book discusses the histor...

Men and women who serve in the armed forces are subject to a different legal code than those they protect. Throughout American history, some have-through action or failure to act or by circumstances-found themselves facing prosecution by the United States military. One measure of a nation's sense of justice is how it treats those who surrender some of their rights to defend the rights of fellow citizens. Beginning with the first court-martial (predating the nation itself) of an American Indian...

Updated and expanded version of the 1976 work. Meeting smmaries are arranged chronologically. Focus is on the relative roles of, and the relationship between, military power and socio-economic conditions, and the Communist movement. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The relationship between class and intimate violence against women is much misunderstood. While many studies of intimate violence focus on poor and working-class women, few examine the issue comparatively in terms of class privilege and class disadvantage. James Ptacek draws on in-depth interviews with sixty women from wealthy, professional, working-class, and poor communities to investigate how social class shapes both women's experiences of violence and the responses of their communities to th...

Ronnie Howard was a drug dealer, a hit man, a hustler, a bouncer and a thief. He was very nearly a pimp. Ronnie was also a copper whose undercover work led to some of the biggest drug hauls the UK has ever seen. His infiltration of a paedophile network helped avert kidnap and murder, while his work on the beat earned him a reputation as one of the UK's toughest policemen. No one was safe when Ronnie was around. Criminals feared him and so did his fellow officers. Ronnie's Looking for Troub...

In the years following World War I, Los Angeles was a city awakening to its darker side, transforming itself from a backwater town to a gleaming metropolis and city of the future. But along the way a tarnished patina began to coat its ever-more glamorous facade. As thousands flocked to the city with their dreams and desires, so too came get-rich-quick schemes, phony religions, organized crime, and corruption. A visual history like no other, Dark City brings together images from archives, museum...