Criminal Justice: New Books 2022-23

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

overcome the current impasse where the residents of high-violence neighborhoods do not trust the police

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.