Criminal Justice: New Books 2020-21

Integrates research and theory from a variety of disciplines to analyze four specific state-corporate climate crimes and reviews policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to a warming world, and achieve climate justice.

The first expert and comprehensive analysis of the surprising impact of body-worn cameras, evaluating their benefits and drawbacks for police and the public, and whether they can address today's crisis in police legitimacy

Offering balanced coverage of a full range of contemporary research methods this book demonstrates how research is relevant to the field and what tools are needed to actually conduct that research in criminal justice and criminology.

Presents criminal trajectories as a concept and methodology and addresses policy and practice implications for the criminal justice system--including current sentencing and incarceration practices--and presents twelve recommendations for future work.

Explores what is known about alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use in people who cycle through prisons, and the harms associated with use of these substance, evidence-based responses to these harms, and implications for policy reform.

Argues for the importance of police training about mental health disorders and explore the likelihood of diverting individuals with mental illness from the criminal justice system.

Police departments across the country conduct psychological evaluations of their police applicants and many also conduct periodic evaluations of incumbent police officers. This book explains the legal, procedural, ethical, and clinical foundations for these types of evaluations.

For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren't well-off Americans being punished for predatory business practices and to punish well-off people who cause widespread harm? This new edition continues to engage readers in important exercises of critical thinking.

Outlines the theoretical and practical foundations of Stratified Policing for police leaders who need an organizational structure for analysis, problem solving, and accountability.

Uses techniques from psychological science and legal theory to explore police interrogation in the United States. This approach helps explain the likelihood of interrogation outcomes, including true and false confessions, and provides a greater understanding of best practices.

Examines the causes and consequences of violence against women and girls (VAWG), in the home, local community, workplace, public, and transnationally, and sets out promising policy and advocacy frameworks to end this violence.

A riveting, rarely seen glimpse into American incarceration. It is also a damning account of policies that have criminalized mental illness, shifting large numbers of people who belong in therapeutic settings into punitive ones and rendering mentally stable people psychiatrically unwell.

It is projected that by 2030, one-third of all incarcerated individuals will be older adults. Drawing on extensive quantitative and qualitative research and national datasets, this book presents a solution-focused caring-justice framework to transform the factors that have led to the aging-in-prison crisis

Responds to a range of texts, policies, practices, and representations complicit with police power--from the Fourth Amendment and the movements to curtail stop-and-frisk policing and mass incarceration to popular culture treatments of blackness and leading academic discourses on race and sex politics.

Goes inside a metropolitan crime laboratory to explores the lives of highly trained experts tasked with translating their knowledge for others who depend on it to deliver justice.

Discusses why deinstitutionalization is often wrongly blamed for the rise in incarceration and how understanding deinstitutionalization as a form of residential integration makes visible intersections with racial desegregation.

Reveals that race, and other variables continue to play a significant and consequential role in the legal decision-making process and gives policy recommendations for social and criminal justice reform, and ultimately humanizing differences.

Academic research is combined with first-person narratives from people who have been directly affected by incarceration. At a time when much of the push to reduce prison populations is focused on the financial cost to states and cities, this book emphasizes the broader social and human costs of mass incarceration.

A history of the McCleskey v. Kemp Supreme Court ruling that effectively condoned racism in capital cases and underscores the the racial, socioeconomic, and gender disparities in modern American capital punishment.

Highlights the uniqueness of hate or bias crime victimization and examines measurement issues and victims’ reasons for not reporting. Provides recommendations to address issues in measurement and under-reporting of hate crimes..

Provides multidisciplinary coverage of stalking behavior worldwide from academic and practical approaches Discusses the factors that influence social awareness and emphasizes policy and best practice responses to stalking.

From Title IX cases on campus, to #metoo and #timesup, rape is a definitive issue at the heart of feminism, and lately, it's barely out of the news. Sanyal argues that the way we as a society understand rape tells us not just how we understand sexual violence, but how we understand sex, sexuality, and gender itself.

Explores each element of the triangle of ability, desire, and opportunity that typically characterizes gun violence and suggests practical preventative actions that could limit the violence while respecting Second Amendment rights.

Describes scenario-based training, how it differs from traditional use of force training, how it works to improve police-community relations, and how to implement it.

From 2000 to 2018, Australia's crime rate fell 40- 80 percent. This book explains the dramatic decline by comparing competing theories against the available evidence. The surprising conclusions may reshape the discussion of these questions well into the future.