Criminal Justice / Law: Reference eBooks

This volume deals with not only law but also sociology, psychology, history and economics.

Over 10,000 entries explain the vocabulary used in legal situations. Entries include definitions pronunciations, and frequent supplementary notes.

Non-lawyers will appreciate the way this book cuts through the complexities of legal jargon and presents definitions and explanations that are easily understood and referenced. The terms are arranged alphabetically and given with definitions and explanations for consumers, business proprietors, legal beneficiaries, investors, property owners, litigants, and all others who have dealings with the law. Find definitions on everything from Abandonment and Abatable Nuisance, all the way through to Zoning.

Covers leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, and important documents. Includes topics such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and more.

This 12-volume set provides information on more than 5,000 legal topics in American law, covering important issues, biographies, definitions of legal terms and more.

Containing approximately 200 articles, the Encyclopedia includes: brief descriptions of each issue's historical background, covering important statutes and cases; profiles of various U.S. laws and regulations; and details of how laws and regulations vary from state to state.

From a team of leading experts comes a comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the most current research including the complex issue of violence and violent behavior.

This set provides a comprehensive, critical and descriptive examination of all facets of law enforcement on the state and local, federal and national, and international stages. The volumes treat subjects that are particular to the area of state and local, federal and national, and international policing.

Includes 465 cross-referenced articles covering professional organizations, investigative techniques and procedures, subspecialties of the field, the role of forensic science in our legal system, and specific cases (the Unabomber, the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, etc.). Also addresses depictions of forensic science in the media, including TV shows such as CSI.

Top scholars present an unbiased work that takes on the explosive issue of guns and gun violence in the United States.

This source contains overviews of the key concepts related to criminality, definitions and descriptions of the types of crime, and a look at the responses to crime.

Defining terms, including haggling and mediator, this comprehensive resource will standardize the language of conflict resolution - improving dialogue and understanding among professionals and theorists and promoting uniformity and consistency in the language. It offers common and varied uses of terms, clarifies differences between terms, and recommends accurate usage.

Entries (of between 500 and 1500 words) on key terms and concepts in forensic psychology arranged alphabetically.

Consists of entries, including summary definition, main text and key texts and sources, contributed by leading academic and practitioners in policing.

The essential source of reference for the increasing number of people studying in, working in prisons and working with prisoners.

Contemporary probation practice is developing rapidly and is become increasingly professionalized. Probation officers are typically described now as offender managers, and the creation of NOMS (National Offender Management Service) has broadened the remit of the Probation Service. As well as bringing an increased emphasis on skills and qualifications it has also introduced a new set of ideas and concepts into the established probation lexicon - including institutional, legal, political and theoretical terms of its own as well as importing concepts from the disciplines of sociology, criminology and psychology.

This Dictionary explicitly addresses the historical, legal, theoretical, organisational, policy, practice, research and evidential contexts within which 'modern' youth justice in the UK and beyond is located.

A compilation of current and historical statistics with analysis on gun control, including a comprehensive summary of up-to-date research on the topic. Data are compiled from reports generated by branches of the U.S. government, information collected by major independent polling organizations and authoritative associations, and from professional journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and other reliable sources related to the subject.

Designed as an alternative to overly comprehensive, lengthy, and expensive introductory texts, Essential Criminology is, as its title implies, a concise overview of the field. The book guides students through the various definitions of crime and the different ways crime is measured.

This is a bilingual dictionary of legal terms that features over 50,000 entries. It provides coverage of all aspects of law, with each entry including a translation and example sentences to show how the term is used in context.

Provides a critical overview of penal institutions within a historical and contemporary framework. Issues of race, gender, and class are fully integrated throughout in order to demonstrate the complexity of the implementation and intended results of incarceration. The encyclopedia also contain biographies, articles describing important legal statutes, as well as detailed and authoritative descriptions of the major prisons in the United States. Comparative data and examples are employed to analyze the America system within an international context.

A compilation of current and historical statistics with analysis on U. S. national security, including a comprehensive summary of up-to-date research on the topic. Data are compiled from reports generated by branches of the U.S. government, information collected by major independent polling organizations and authoritative associations, and from professional journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and other reliable sources.

Explores specific modern-day conflicts that have had a truly global impact, as well as the efforts and organizations focused on solving these conflicts.