Looks at how prosecution of offenders is evolving in the contemporary legal milieu.

Traces the history of the writ of habeas corpus and its influence on federal-state relations.

Writings by twentieth-century imprisoned authors examining confinement, enslavement, and political organizing in prison.

A historical romp through the fascinating subject of murder jurisprudence in the United States from the colonial period to the present, showing how changing social mores have influenced the application of murder law.

Brings the insights of postmodernism to the concerns of criminology and includes examples of how social theory can function in the real-world realm of criminal law. Winner of the 2005 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems

A critical look at the perceived increase in girls' violence from a range of disciplinary and geographical perspectives.

A critical look at the relationship between law and psychology.

Examines the development of statutory rape laws in the United States.

A provocative critique of the relationship between the legal system and psychology that uses chaos theory to offer a more humane alternative.

Explores the concept of Restorative Justice in diverse spiritual traditions.

Eminent criminologist Richard Quinney offers his 40-year journey bearing witness to crime and social justice in writings both scholarly and autobiographical.

The first contemporary biography of Abby Hopper Gibbons, a nineteenth-century American social activist. Involved in a broad range of reform activities, she is particularly known for her pioneering efforts to improve the treatment of women prisoners.

Provides the first applications of constitutive criminology, a theoretical framework inspired by postmodernism, to specific areas of criminological practice.

Provides a comprehensive look at violence as rooted in routine conflict in daily social interactions.

Examines the perspectives of inner-city residents in Athens, Georgia on policing, community policing, and the co-production of law enforcement.

Describes life inside the world's largest women's prison, from the point of view of the women themselves.

Combines quantitative and qualitative data in a careful investigation of sentencing processes and context under Pennsylvania's sentencing guidelines.

A broadly based analysis of good and evil grounded in examination of the conceptual, philosophical, and theoretical bases of the study of evil within the social sciences.

Focuses on variables that assist in confronting and preventing child abductions, including teacher training, public education and awareness, psychotherapeutic techniques for families and friends of abducted children as well as the children themselves.

The authors show how and why alcohol and violence are so often linked today.

This book is a biography of the husband and wife team that is largely responsible for developing social problems and social deviance as areas of research. Politics in the discipline of sociology is also ...

This is an examination of the factors that contribute to the risk of being victimized, such as crime rates and environmental and personal variables.

This book examines the policies of the Dutch toward illicit drug use and the effect these policies have had on heroin addicts and drug-related crime.

This is a study of the conditions present in an ethnically divided society that affect police-community relations.

Building on past work, the authors outline an integrated model for linking suicide and homicide and show how that research from this perspective can further our understanding of violence. Specifically, ...