Crime & Punishment in the U.S.

Extracted from Salem Press's Criminal Justice set (2005), this three-volume reference contains 257 updated essays (with expanded biographical citations) that are intended to provide lay readers and students from middle school and up with answers to the types of questions that readers are most likely to pose about specific crimes and how their perpetrators are apprehended, convicted, and punished in the United States. Arranged alphabetically by editor Gerstenfeld (criminal justice, California State U.), the articles cover the following subject categories: appeals, arrest and arraignment, attorneys, business and financial crime, capital punishment, civil rights and liberties, computer crime, confessions, constitutional protections, convictions, courts, crime prevention, criminology, defendants, deviancy, domestic violence, espionage and sedition, evidence and forensics, federal law, fraud, government misconduct, homicide, immunity, international law, interrogation, investigation, judges, juries, jurisdictions, juvenile justice, kidnapping, law codes, law- enforcement organization, legal terms and principles, media, medical and health issues, military justice, morality and public order, organized crime, pardons and parole, pleas, police powers, political issues, privacy, probation and pretrial release, professional standards, prosecution, punishment, rehabilitation, restorative justice, robbery and burglary, search and seizure, sentencing, substance abuse, technology, terrorism, traffic law, trial procedures, vandalism, verdicts, victimless crime, victims, violent crime, white-collar crime, witnesses, and women's issues. The three volumes are illustrated with 90 photographs, 7 maps, 28 graphs and charts, 16 tables, and 60 textual sidebars. Also included are a glossary with 530 terms and a subject index. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)