Guides: Criminal Justice: New Books 2022-23

New Books

Contemporary Criminal Justice Careers by Matthew J. Sheridan; Thomas J. Lalka
Call Number: HV 9950 .S545 2022

Taking into account social unrest and recent tragedies, the authors emphasize planning, personal development and preparation from the time students enter the profession, through career development, professional options, and retirement preparation.
Crime, Criminal Justice, and Religion by Philip Birch
Call Number: HV 7419 .C7434 2023

Explores the influence and impact religion has in terms of how we view and ultimately address crime, how it shapes our institutions and legal professions, and how we deliver criminal justice.
Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm Reduction by Matthew Bacon
Call Number: HV 8079 .N3 D784 2023

Scholars from from various countries, localities, and contexts examine the effectiveness and unintended consequences of the war on drugs', attempts to reform drugs policing, and partnerships and policy networks.
Planting Clues by David J. Gibson
Call Number: QK 46.5 .F67 G53 2022

Explores how plants can help to solve crimes, as well as how plant crimes are themselves solved. Traces the evolution of forensic botany, from their use as evidence in the trials of high profile murderers such as Ted Bundy to high value botanical trafficking and poaching.
Policing the Second Amendment by Jennifer Carlson
Call Number: HV 8059 .C373 2020

Drawing newspapers, interviews with police chiefs, and gun licensing processes, Carlson describes a troubling paradox of guns today: --while color-blind laws grant civilians unprecedented rights to own, carry, and use guns, people of color face a stricter system of gun criminalization.
Shattered Justice by Kimberly J. Cook
Call Number: HV 6250.3 .U5 C629 2022

Presents crime victims’ experiences with investigations and trials when those convicted of the crimes are later exonerated. Explores policy reforms aimed at preventing, mitigating, and repairing the harms of wrongful convictions.
The Spatial Scale of Crime by John R. Hipp
Call Number: HV 6787 .H57 2023

Combines spatial and longitudinal components of crimes, exploring where offenders and targets live, where they travel, how vibrant neighborhoods are generated, change, and either decline or thrive.
The Streets Belong to Us by Anne Gray Fischer
Call Number: HV 8141 .F494 2022

By illuminating both the racial dimension of sexual liberalism and the gender dimension of policing in Black neighborhoods, The Streets Belong to Us illustrates the decisive role that race, gender, and sexuality played in the construction of urban police regimes.
What's Prison For? by Bill Keller
Call Number: HM 1166 .T875 2022

Argues that the most important role of prisons is preparing incarcerated people to be good neighbors citizens when they return to society. Gives an inside look at prisoners who have found purpose while in state custody and provides a guide on how to improve our prison system and helping incarcerated people fulfill their potential.

eBooks

Death Before Sentencing by Andrew R. Klein; Jessica L. Klein (As told to)
Argues that deaths of inmates in American jails are a direct result of abysmal, correctional facilities' policies, mostly for-profit medical providers, absent administrators, and unchecked brutality by jail deputies.
Digital Transformation in Policing: the Promise, Perils and Solutions by Reza Montasari
Offers an evidence-based analysis of issues in digital policing, including the newest technology and methodology, technical, ethical, legal, privacy and civil liberty challenges, and detailed recommendations for the design and implementation of best practices.
Eliminating Gender-Based Violence Governance and Survivor/Victim-centred Approaches by OECD
Explores how countries can strengthen public governance systems, respond to the needs and experiences of survivors/victims, and improve access to justice and accountability to effectively address gender-based violence.
Internal Investigations for Law Enforcement by Rainer Kroll
Examines the theory and history behind police culture and deviance and provides a concise methodology for conducting investigations into law enforcement, Discusses various types of allegations, and the appropriate steps for investigation.
The Limits of Recidivism by Amanda Grigg, Richard Rosenfeld
rgues that recidivism rates and current measures of success for individuals released from prison are inadequate. Recommends improvements to increase the health, safety, and security of formerly incarcerated persons and the communities to which they return.
Police Brutality and White Supremacy by Etan Thomas
The author demands accountability and justice for those responsible for and impacted by police violence and terror and offers practical solutions to work against the promotion of white supremacy in law enforcement, Christianity, early education, and across the public sphere.
A Police Officer's Guide to Academic Research by Anne Eason
Highlights how the practical skills of the police officer can be transferred to academic research. Explains concepts such as ethical approval, research paradigms and data gathering and analysis and challenges officers to become part of the evidence-based policing movement.
Policies and Practices to Minimize Police Use of Force Internationally by National Academies Press
Explores which policies and practices for police use of force are effective in promoting the rule of law and protecting the population (including the officers themselves) and their implementation.
Policing Gun Violence by Anthony A. Braga; Philip J. Cook
overcome the current impasse where the residents of high-violence neighborhoods do not trust the police
Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Jason Schnittker
Examines the connection between prisons and the health of inmates, their families, and on state and national health care systems. Based on empirical research, it demonstrates that the prison system produces unintended and far-reaching consequences.
School Zone by Pamela Wilcox
Examines the interaction of context, victims, and offenders to explain how individual students and schools respond to crime and threats and the variable that schools can control in planning and practice.
The Shadow of Childhood Harm Behind Prison Walls by Nancy Wolff
Uses ethics, law, science, and compassion, to call out the anti-humanism roots underpinning the flaws of the current correctional system and proposes a new way of intelligently designing and maintaining a just, fair, and person-centered system.
Understanding and Preventing Community Violence by James F. Albrecht
Investigates police response to criminal incidents, engagements with criminal suspects, use of force by law enforcement, and crime control measures implemented so that the unwanted rise of violence and serious crime can again be contained.
The Violence Project by Jillian Peterson; James Densley
Using data from the writers' groundbreaking research on mass shooters, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, The Violence Project charts new pathways to prevention and innovative ways to stop the social contagion of violence.

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