Demographics and Criminality

R Barri Flowers

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• As the problem of crime continues to worsen in the 1980s, the need for up-to-date, comprehensive information on its dynamics and incidence increases. ... Lees meer

Punishment and Restitution

Frank H Marsh

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• Charles F. Abel and Frank H. Marsh propose an alternative to the present criminal justice system that they consider workable, efficient, and fair. The... Lees meer

In Defense of Prisons

Richard a Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology | nr. 43
• This comprehensive examination of the effectiveness of prisons is virtually alone in showing that prisons are moderately effective in achieving specif... Lees meer

Policing Multi-Ethnic Neighborhoods

Geoffrey P Alpert, Roger G Dunham

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• A fascinating and well-written book by an established researcher in the field. Alpert treats problems faced by police in rapidly changing multiethnic ... Lees meer

A Sword for the Convicted

David Wasserman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• Using New York City as a research model, this study explores the organizational, tactical, and ethical challenges of providing zealous advocacy for ev... Lees meer

Policing Western Europe

Clive Emsley, Barbara Weinberger

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• This collection of essays examines the growth of professionalization in national police forces in England, France, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlan... Lees meer

From Chords to Simultaneities

Nachum Schoffman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology | nr. 17
• One of the momentous events in twentieth century music was the advent of atonality and serialism, and the consequent proliferation of such avant-garde... Lees meer

Crime and Culture in America

Parviz Saney

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• Saney cogently argues that in the absence of adequate support within social and legal norms, a heavy burden is placed upon the criminal justice system... Lees meer

The Effectiveness of Innovative Approaches in the Treatment of Drug Abuse

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology | nr. 49
• This edited collection builds on the editors' previous works Drug Abuse Treatment: The Implementation of Innovative Approaches (Greenwood, 1994) and I... Lees meer

Police in Contradiction

J M Olivero, Cyril Robinson, Richard Scaglion

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• This book formulates a theory of the origin and evolution of the police function, using both historical and cross-cultural analysis. It explains the i... Lees meer

Chinese Subculture and Criminality

Ko Lin Chin

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• The President's Commission on Organized Crime predicted that Asian crime groups would be the United States' foremost organized crime problem by the 19... Lees meer

Policing a Socialist Society

Nancy T Wolfe

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• What was it like to live under the police and a criminal justice system in a socialist society and in a country governed by Marxist-Leninists? This is... Lees meer

Shakespeare's Criminals

Victoria M Time

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• By exploring Shakespeare's use of law and justice themes in the context of historical and contemporary criminological thinking, this book challenges c... Lees meer

Waging the Battle Against Drunk Driving

Gerald Robin

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• This is a comprehensive examination of the contemporary movement against drunk driving. Written in an eminently readable style, the volume addresses a... Lees meer

Intervention Strategies for Chronic Juvenile Offenders

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• Today juvenile delinquents are viewed and treated much like adult criminals. The goal of rehabilitating and reforming youthful offenders--once the pri... Lees meer

Coca and Cocaine

• Paperback | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• This remarkable analyis of the problems of coca leaves and cocaine traffic in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru provides an Andean perspective on drug produ... Lees meer

Innovative Approaches in the Treatment of Drug Abuse

Bennett W Fletcher, James a Inciardi, Frank M Tims

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• This collection of studies by experts on drug abuse treatment represents the state of the art in research examining what works best and why in a natio... Lees meer

Law Enforcement Planning

Jeffrey L Sedgwick

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• Is cost-benefit analysis the best means to determine and formulate public policies? To answer this question Jeffrey Leigh Sedgwick examines its applic... Lees meer

Crack and the Evolution of Anti-Drug Policy

Steven Belenko

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• An authority on anti-drug policy and crack since it became a popular street drug in the mid-1980s, Belenko traces the development of America's policy ... Lees meer

Punishing Criminals

Malcolm Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• Punishing Criminals is about sentencing theory and policy and the attempt to identify punishments other than imprisonment. Davies argues for the need ... Lees meer

Drug Abuse Treatment

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology | nr. 45
• This collection reports on the progress of the intervention programs first described in Innovative Approaches in the Treatment of Drug Abuse: Program ... Lees meer

Police Under Pressure

Robert Coulson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• What is it like to be a cop in America today in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict? In a risky environment when dangerous weapons are used and s... Lees meer

The Law and Politics of Police Discretion

Gregory Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• The author, a law professor and former deputy sheriff, discusses the problems attending the extensive discretion given to police officers on the job. ... Lees meer

Evaluating Criminology and Criminal Justice

Ellen G Cohn, David P Farrington, Richard a Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology | nr. 51
• Using citation analysis, this study examines the influence and prestige of scholars, journals, and university departments in the fields of criminology... Lees meer