criminal justice, administration of

Presents a comprehensive analysis of the forty-year dispute between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies over the fate of top Nazi officials held prisoner at Spandau Prison in Western Berlin.

Explores the criminal justice system of America and what makes a crime a crime, examining the criteria lawmakers and enforcers use to determine what crimes are punishable with which punishments, and how such things are determined in court.

Provides definitions of key terms and concepts from diverse areas of the law, including criminology, criminal justice, corrections, probation/parole, juvenile justice, and policing; and features accounts of a selection of significant Supreme Court cases.

Contains descriptions of twenty-one public safety occupations, each with information on the job duties, training and education requirements, salary ranges, advancement opportunities, and outlook; and includes interviews with people in the field and suggestions for gaining experience and landing a job.

Presents approximately 150 primary source documents, such as speeches, legislation, memoirs, newspaper articles, and interviews, related to crime and punishment between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries.

A personal and provocative look at our criminal justice system and the crime of murder.

Erice Volz moved from California to Nicaragua in 2005 when he was in his late twenties after co-founding a successful bilingual magazine. There he met beautiful Doris Jimenez but the relationship lasted less than a year. They remained friends and then on November 21, 2006, he received a phone call that Doris had been found murdered in her seaside clothing boutique. As he comforted her friends and family he was arrested for a murder he didn't commit. Imprisoned, he suffered horrific conditions. Through the tireless support of his friends and family and a former intelligence operative he was finally released in December 2007 after more than a year in prison.