When Ezra Chipman brought fellow Canadian George Sternaman to board at his Buffalo home, he set in motion a nightmarish chain of events. Within months, Ezra ......
In 1934, 53-year-old beer tycoon John Sackville Labatt was kidnapped and held ransom for three days. This bizarre true crime story traces the abduction throu......
The authors provide stepping stones for rural and small-town agencies to make the organizational changes needed for community policing to take hold. The book......
We live in a digital age. The proliferation of digital technology, and the convergence of computing and communication devices, has transformed the way in whi......
Problem Solving Courts examines a relatively new approach to criminal justice in which judges, advised by law enforcement officers and mental health workers,......
This book explores the basics of the defamation law as it applies to private-sphere defamation and looks at the peculiar permutations created by the use of p......
Now in its third edition, Developing Language and Communication Skills through Small Group Work provides essential information for practitioners working with......
This edited book analyses the strategic dimensions of energy security, particularly where energy resources have become the object of military competition.
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This book argues that accountability for extraordinary atrocity crimes should not uncritically adopt the methods and assumptions of ordinary liberal criminal......
Since the early 1990s, thanks to inflamed rhetoric in the media about “superpredators” and a wave of get-tough-on-crime laws, the number of juven......
Original writings explore the issue of white-collar crime and the controversies that surround it, focusing on the vastness of state-corporate and white-colla......
In exploring the criminalization of corporations, this book uses the landmark "Ford Pinto case" as a centerpiece for exploring corporate violence and the lon......
Is the American criminal justice system dysfunctional? Our criminal codes are so voluminous that they bewilder not only the average citizen, but also the ave......
This book views peacemaking as a broad, encompassing process that is expressed in many different shapes and forms. It blends ancient-wisdom traditions, peace......
Imagining Justice seeks to move away from normative thinking about justice, particularly in the area of justice education, suggesting that what is needed tod......
Offering a balanced approach to problem-solving issues in a complex and changing world, this book focuses specifically on the subject of problem solving in p......
This book of original essays presents students with challenging looks at some of the most basic, and sometimes most difficult, decisions faced by criminal ju......
This book provides step-by-step procedures to help police administrators execute their duties and fulfill their responsibilities more effectively, efficientl......
The first true textbook on the death penalty, this text provides an exhaustive introduction, starting with its history and taking the reader through the fact......
This text offers a concise, affordable and reader-friendly introduction to the criminal justice system. It explores the system in four sections: the criminal......
