Criminal Justice

This text is a highly readable, comprehensive review of the intriguing world of crime and can be used by students with no prior investigative knowledge or as a thorough reference source by law enforcement practitioners.

This 5th Edition provides comprehensive coverage of how crimes are committed, discovered, and investigated. It also examines contemporary methods of investigation through the use of modern technology and recent advances in forensic science

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the leading criminological theories using sociology, psychology, biology, and ecology to explain how and why crime occurs.

One of the greatest challenges encountered by those in the forensic sciences is anticipating what the state and federal courts will - or will not - allow as valid physical evidence. The author of this book analyzes and explains the judicial system's response to the applicability of forensic science in the investigation, prosecution, and defense of criminal activity.

Gathering knowledge and experience from more than 40 countries, this book clearly demonstrates the scale and spread of the problem, providing a powerful analysis of the circumstances that contribute to the abuse and victimization of women and children as well as the international policies and strategies used to combat this crime.

This book is a unique, balanced text that includes both critical and mainstream perspectives on delinquency and delinquents. It encourages readers to actively explore juvenile delinquency's definitions, history, measurement, and theories, and to examine the juvenile justice system.

This book represents well what sociology means - a perspective on human beings that widens our understanding.

This text continues to provide an analytical framework for understanding the police as a balanced product of social, historical, political, legal, individual, and organizational forces.

This book provides students of criminology and criminal justice with a clear and simple approach to understanding social science research. Completely updated and redesigned, this text is written to engage students and make the complex subject of research methods easy for the would-be criminal justice practitioner to comprehend.

Scores of officers nationwide have used this resource to develop an ethically sound warrior mind-set that dictates the way they live their lives in the field, off-duty, and forever.