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
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
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
For two decades, Anthony M. Kennedy has cast the deciding vote in many US Supreme Court decisions, but his legal philosophy has been little studied, says Bartl. He seeks a consistency among the divers
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
Cook assesses whether the general consistency that has been reported to exist between US Supreme Court opinions and public opinions is also present for one specific areas of constitutional law: First
In a qualitative study conducted during a 12-year period--2001-13--Lose focuses on the day-to-day lives of men awaiting execution in the US. He interviewed death row inmates in three prisons in Ohio.
Video captured by increasingly ubiquitous citizen cameras and communicated to a mass audience over the Internet is capable of bypassing police jurisdictional influence over tradition mass media, says
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
Addressing domestic violence in the context of female victims, the author examines the aspects of culture that impact the processing of domestic violence cases in two court models: a traditional court
This study explores the experiences of Latino immigrant students in one classroom at a high school in the upper Midwest through their stories, within the historical and contemporary context of immigra
This volume identifies the national policies that the United States Congress has passed in order to shape migrant admissions over the years 1965-2008 and to analyze the causal reasons for the various
This is a sociological comparison of the higher education experiences of immigrant and native-born black students in the United States based on interviews conducted within the University of California
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
Ferraro’s doctoral dissertation analyzes changes in violent and property crime rates in areas home to immigrants, crime against immigrants in those same areas, and whether the effect of immigration on
Garcia (education, U. Southern California) presents this qualitative set of case studies on undocumented young adults pursuing a college education. The book is systematically arranged with an introduc
Following the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, segregationist leaders proposed a program of "massive resistance" and segregation at all costs, yet cracks nevertheless began to ap
Since the September 11th attacks of 2001, the United States has experienced a "moral panic" involving various combinations of the media, the public, and agents of social control that has served to hel
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
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
It is generally accepted that the Espionage and Sedition Acts that were passed during WWI in the United States were so vaguely worded that they caused a real curtailment of the constitutional freedom
Shelton, who is chief judge of a court system in Michigan and an adjunct instructor at Cooley Law School and Eastern Michigan U., considers which types of scientific forensic evidence have enough vali
In this beautifully-written memoir of immigrants' struggles with identity, women's roles, change and resilience, Shavarini (Brandeis U.) traces the experiences of four generations of her Iranian famil
Much of the focus in the existing literature on racial disparities in capital punishment in the United States has focused on differential treatment between African Americans and Caucasians, with limit
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
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
Drawing on results of surveys and interviews they conducted, California education scholars Perez (Claremont Graduate U.) and Cortes (Glendale Community College) examine how undocumented Latino student
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
This volume, part of the "Law and Society" series, places the "Real ID Act" ("Improved Security for Drivers' Licenses and Personal Identification Cards") signed into law by George W. Bush in 2005, wit
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
Trieu explores the ethnic identity formation of second-generation Chinese-Vietnamese. Many Chinese-Vietnamese Americans grew up questioning which ethnicity they belonged to. By disentangling the expe
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
Building on his earlier work in Street People and the Contested Realms of Public Space, Amster (peace studies and social thought, Prescott College) explores interconnections among the lived experience
