In Youth Gangs: History, Recruitment, and Community Response, author Laura Pinto Hansen invites readers to explore the history of youth gangs, the diverse types of gangs, how they form, and what makes gangs attractive to children, adolescents, and young adults. The book highlights the fact that youth gangs cannot be lumped into the same category ......
Interviewing, Interrogation, Investigating, and Intelligence in Criminal Justice
The Four I's: Interviewing, Interrogation, Investigating, and Intelligence in Criminal Justice is designed to help readers develop the interpersonal communication skills they need to effectively conduct and support criminal investigations. The text provides readers with comprehensive explorations of interviewing, interrogating, investigating, and ......
Policing Reform: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis provides readers with an in-depth analysis of the past, present, and future of modern American policing. The opening chapter explores social control and the seeds of modern policing, foundations of law enforcement in the U.S., and policing in the early United States. Additional chapters ......
The twelfth edition of Criminal Justice Essentials provides a comprehensive, but accessible, overview of U.S. criminal justice systems. Anchored within the framework of the legal system and using legal decisions as a basis for much of its direction, Sue Titus Reid offers an authoritative overview of the law enriched with real life examples of ......
Research Methods: Studying Urban Crime examines aspects of crime from a variety of perspectives and describes how researchers can conduct effective and valuable research in the discipline. Utilising an urban context, the contributed chapters provide strategies for exploring various elements of crime and a solid knowledge base on crime-related ......
Through a socio-legal, socio-psychological, and socio-historical analysis of race and the history of American political rhetoric on crime, Race and Criminal Justice History: Rhetoric, Politics, and Policy provides a foundation for understanding how Blacks are perceived and how long-standing negative perceptions have influenced their interactions ......
Investigating and Prosecuting Corruption: An Anthology features a collection of curated readings that help students learn about the history of corruption in the United States and around the world. The book educates readers regarding the specific legal meaning of corruption and reviews the framework of laws used to combat corruption nationally and ......
Transnational organized crime poses a significant and growing threat to national and international security. Not only are criminal networks expanding, they also are diversifying their criminal activities, resulting in the convergence of threats that were once distinct and today have even more explosive and destabilizing effects. Transnational ......
Extremism in the United States presents students with a collection of articles that chronicle the development of violent white supremacist extremism in the United States from the Know-Nothing era to the January 6 insurrection. The book examines how right-wing groups mobilized in the last half of the 20th century to become a strong negative ......
