Policing for the 21st Century: Realizing the Vision of Police in a Free Society

Author(s): Christine Gardiner, Matthew J Hickman

Policing for the 21st Century: Realizing the Vision of Police in a Free Society provides a thematic overview of policing and its role in American society. This text is unique in that it provides extensive information about how police identify community problems, the methods police use to respond to ...

Criminal Law

Author(s): George Dery

The law touches everything, and each rule in the law affects each other.Criminal Law aims to exploit the love for storytelling to teach criminal law. This text offers insight into various solutions to legal problems by viewing cases and statutes from many jurisdictions, and brings home the immediacy...

Criminal Justice

Author(s): Scott H. Belshaw, Lee DeBoer

Criminal Justice introduces the many facets of the U.S. criminal justice system in a logical, readily understandable manner. The reader will understand the complexity of the criminal justice system from the start of the process to the end, recognize controversies, and examine the breadth of the chal...

Criminal Justice and Mental Health: An Evidence Based Approach

Author(s): Hayden Smith

Criminal Justice and Mental Health: An Evidence Based Approach details the historical, social, and policy influences that have led to the criminal justice system now serving as a default mental health system. The three largest mental health facilities in the United States are jails and prisons and t...

Primer for an Evolving eWorld

Author(s): J.D. Dr. Michael L. Fox

The third edition of this book continues to serve as both an educational  and reference resource, regardless of whether one is an attorney, judge, paralegal, businessperson, student, self-represented litigant, or member of the general public who wishes to be an informed Citizen. With our world movin...

Corrections 360: A Look at Corrections from all Angles

Author(s): Taryn VanderPyl

Corrections 360: A Look at Corrections From all Angles provides students with an in-depth look at all aspects of corrections from the perspective of practitioners, prisoners, crime victims, and scholars. Every chapter includes personal stories and experiences directly from those most impacted by the...

The Invariable Evolution: Police Use of Force in America

Author(s): Jeffrey Len Schwartz, Michael Virga

A challenging and controversial topic, police use of force, covered in a way to explain the “why” in a straightforward and unbiased manner. This book explores the aspects of police use of force in the United States. The text provides a framework to understand the controversies surrounding the evo...

Biosocial Criminology: A Primer

Author(s): Kevin M Beaver

New Fourth Edition Now Available! Thousands of studies have been published attempting to uncover how the brain works, the functions of different regions of the brain, and how specific parts of the brain contribute to the development of certain disorders. The overwhelming majority of this work ...

Let's Talk Criminal Justice

Author(s): Peter Johnstone

Let’s Talk Criminal Justice provides students with study aids and a bank of questions drawn from the material in each chapter. Let’s Talk Criminal Justice covers: a history of policing crime police recruitment prison probation and parole and more!   , basic_html

Filling in the Gaps

Author(s): Kelley Christopher

Recommended as a companion text in lower-level criminal justice and criminology courses, Filling in the Gaps offers a contextual examination of race, sex, culture, and class within the criminal justice system. Going beyond mere understanding of the process of sentencing and punishment, this text all...