Rather than entering the debate about whether racial bias or legal factors are responsible for racial disparities in the death sentence, Flexon (criminal justice, Florida International U.) explores ho
This study focuses on victim selection by rapists and what it can reveal about the controversy over motives. Spivak (sociology, U. of Nevada-Las Vegas) gives background on the debate between feminist
Counter to poplar conception, most police records are not shared between agencies. This book reports on research on the value of information sharing in policing. The research encompasses several types
Johnson (criminal justice, Washington State U.) offers a well-reasoned discussion of policing and the overwhelming need for improved communications. The author points out that police agencies typicall
Focusing on urban street killing, Warley (social work, California State U., Los Angeles) examines pathways to homicide for adolescent male offenders as a means to understand the process. She documents
Clark?s (research analyst at the Minnesota Department of Corrections) book is part of the series, Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship. The book has seven chapters that cover the following topics in r
Thurgood Marshal dissented in the 1964 Supreme Court case of Reynolds v. Sim, saying that the right to vote is essential to a democracy, and any restriction of that right "strikes at the heart of repr
Caspi (law and political science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City U. of New York) reminds us that violent domestic far-right groups in the U.S. such as the Aryan Nations are as much of a th
Prior (criminology and criminal justice, East Tennessee State U.) is also a licensed mental health professional who works with juvenile and adult males in custody. She explores the effects of alternat
Carter (public and environmental affairs, Indiana U. Purdue U.-Indianapolis) applies what has been learned from the adoption of community policing in the US to identify successful implementation pract
Author Bozeman, retired from the Houston Police Department Homicide Division, demonstrates that Emile Durkheim’s suicide typologies can be applied to homicide, in this study for sociologists, criminol
Monroe (criminal justice, Xavier U.) posits that although rates of adult homicides in which handguns were the primary weapon have declined, there is no statistical indication that the Brady Handgun Vi
Weber and Pelfrey examine how teenagers' peer networks extend from the school day to social technology and back to school, focusing on the rate that cyberbullying occurs and the characteristics of bei
Part of the “Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship” series offering the latest approaches to crime in America, this book examines the decline of community policing. John M. Ray, the Executive Deputy fo
This work presents an original research study and original assessment scale called the Criminal Sentiments Scale, designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a cognitive intervention program currently b
Examining autopsy and toxicology reports of people killed while being arrested, Williams compares differences in the physiological attributes of arrest-related sudden deaths in order to estimate wheth
Sociologist Archibald examines political, economic, and social factors that help explain the state-level variation in the adoption and implementation of the death penalty in the US states from 1985 to
This study looks at ways to surmount problems in research on collective efficacy as a community variable capable of impeding crime and delinquency. Drawing on a sample of real estate agents in the Pit
Harris examines intimate partner violence and reentry. The research presented is informed by theoretical orientations of restorative justice, critical race theory, and critical race feminism and the s
