administration of criminal justice

Explore the issue of, crime and criminals, through a wide range of highly respected expert opinions in a unique pro-con format. Promotes issue awareness as well as critical thinking.

A well-known defense attorney argues that those who claim to be above the law, for whatever reason, are no more than vigilantes.

Photographs, illustrations, and charts describe how crime fighters use math in order to catch criminals.

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.

Answers over five hundred questions on the American criminal justice system, criminal procedure, law enforcement, the courts, and corrections, and includes glossary, bibliography, and other reference materials.

Contains one hundred alphabetized, cross-referenced entries, A-L, on topics related to criminal justice, focusing on the U.S. system and covering social, political, legal, and economic aspects as well as crimes and criminals.

Contains 625 alphabetically arranged entries that examine various aspects of criminal justice in the U.S., covering criminals, codes and categories of law, law enforcement agencies, courts, corrections, the U.S. Constitution, and Supreme Court rulings. Includes a time line, personages and subject indexes, and other reference materials.