Bandidos

Richard Slatta

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• This collection explores the varieties of banditry in Latin America and provides a major comparative testing of Hobsbawm's model of the social bandit.... Lees meer

A Sword for the Convicted

David T Wasserman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• Using New York City as a research model, this study explores the organizational, tactical, and ethical challenges of providing zealous advocacy for ev... Lees meer

Punishing Criminals

Malcolm Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• Punishing Criminals is about sentencing theory and policy and the attempt to identify punishments other than imprisonment. Davies argues for the need ... Lees meer

The Law and Politics of Police Discretion

Gregory Howard Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• The author, a law professor and former deputy sheriff, discusses the problems attending the extensive discretion given to police officers on the job. ... Lees meer

Intervention Strategies for Chronic Juvenile Offenders

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• Today juvenile delinquents are viewed and treated much like adult criminals. The goal of rehabilitating and reforming youthful offenders--once the pri... Lees meer

Demographics and Criminality

R Barri Flowers

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• As the problem of crime continues to worsen in the 1980s, the need for up-to-date, comprehensive information on its dynamics and incidence increases. ... Lees meer

Drug Abuse Treatment

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology | nr. 45
• This collection reports on the progress of the intervention programs first described in Innovative Approaches in the Treatment of Drug Abuse: Program ... Lees meer

Law Enforcement Planning

Jeffrey Leigh Sedgwick

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• Is cost-benefit analysis the best means to determine and formulate public policies? To answer this question Jeffrey Leigh Sedgwick examines its applic... Lees meer

From Chords to Simultaneities

Nachum Schoffman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology | nr. 17
• One of the momentous events in twentieth century music was the advent of atonality and serialism, and the consequent proliferation of such avant-garde... Lees meer

Crime and Culture in America

Parviz Saney

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• Saney cogently argues that in the absence of adequate support within social and legal norms, a heavy burden is placed upon the criminal justice system... Lees meer

Crime and Social Control in a Changing China

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• This important edited collection of articles by both Chinese and American scholars attempts to promote a more accurate and in-depth understanding of c... Lees meer

Women and Criminality

R Barri Flowers, Ethel Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• This book is a welcome addition to the literature on women and criminality. It should be of particular interest to the general reader as a concise, we... Lees meer

Police in Contradiction

Cyril D Robinson, Richard Scaglion, J Michael Olivero

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• This book formulates a theory of the origin and evolution of the police function, using both historical and cross-cultural analysis. It explains the i... Lees meer

Chinese Subculture and Criminality

Ko-Lin Chin

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• The President's Commission on Organized Crime predicted that Asian crime groups would be the United States' foremost organized crime problem by the 19... Lees meer

Waging the Battle Against Drunk Driving

Gerald Robin

• Paperback | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• This is a comprehensive examination of the contemporary movement against drunk driving. Written in an eminently readable style, the volume addresses a... Lees meer

The Criminal Elite

Howard Abadinsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• The author . . . focuses upon two elite categories of the criminal `underworld'--the jewel thief and the `wise guy'. . . . The author's well-documente... Lees meer

Police Pursuit Driving

Geoffrey P Alpert, Roger G Dunham

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• Police strategies often develop from custom and practice without guidance from empirical research. Police officers often make their decisions based up... Lees meer

Academic Politics and the History of Criminal Justice Education

Frank Morn

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology | nr. 46
• The rise of academic criminal justice programs from their beginnings at the University of California in the 1930s through the split into academic and ... Lees meer

Woodwind Music of Black Composers

Aaron Horne

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology | nr. 24
• The preponderance of early Black composers wrote choral music and even the most outstanding among them did not compose works for woodwinds. However, t... Lees meer

Crack and the Evolution of Anti-Drug Policy

Steven R Belenko

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• An authority on anti-drug policy and crack since it became a popular street drug in the mid-1980s, Belenko traces the development of America's policy ... Lees meer

Personality and Peer Influence in Juvenile Corrections

Martin Gold, D Wayne Osgood

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• This is an innovative study of 300 delinquent boys in a medium security institution and after their release. This longitudinal field experiment shows ... Lees meer

In Defense of Prisons

Richard Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology | nr. 43
• This comprehensive examination of the effectiveness of prisons is virtually alone in showing that prisons are moderately effective in achieving specif... Lees meer

State Police in the United States

H Kenneth Bechtel

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology | nr. 47
• Largely neglected by historians, political scientists, and criminal justice specialists, the available literature on the state police tends to be high... Lees meer

Innovative Approaches in the Treatment of Drug Abuse

Bennett W. Fletcher, James A. Inciardi, Frank M. Tims

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Criminology and Penology
• This collection of studies by experts on drug abuse treatment represents the state of the art in research examining what works best and why in a natio... Lees meer