Product Description: Designed for an undergraduate criminology or criminological theory course, Criminological Theories: Understanding Crime in America explores crime, crime theory, and various forms of criminal behavior within the United States. Thoroughly revised and updated, this text focuses strictly on theories while avoiding discussion of the criminal justice system...read more

Product Description: This dictionary contains criminal justice terms, criminological concepts, and over 100 cases decided by courts in the federal system, including the United States Supreme Court. These cases address aspects of criminal procedures, as well as individual rights in the U...read more

Legal Rights of Prisoners is a timely book that addresses the constitutional rights of people in places of confinement. More specifically, it examines the amendments that inmates use and the case law that has developed to address their concerns. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Student's Guide for Boot Camps: An Intermediate Sanction is an essential companion for an indispensable volume on a hotly debated topic in law enforcement. It offers study strategies as well as chapter outlines, summaries, and sample examination questions that will not only save students class preparation time, but instructors as well...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Boot Camps introduces to the criminal justice profession a general, but comprehensive look at this military style alternative to incarceration. The authors demystify this relatively unknown treatment program by closely tracing the history of the use of this military model in US prisons to its revitalization by contemporary correctional experts. Boot Camps provide the reader with theoretical and practical arguments regarding the implications underlying this sentencing option. It reveals the social, political, and economic contexts that resurrected this punitive, yet rehabilitative, approach to 'getting tough' on crime. This book also reveals the effect that boot camps have on the crime rate, criminal offenders, public outcry, and strained correctional budgets. Using professional jargon in an easy-to-read format, the authors provide the general public with a better understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of boot camps. (view table of contents)