Criminal Justice: New Books 2023-2024

Drawing from e threat assessment, behavioral analysis, and law enforcement negotiation theory and practice, the book presents methods to prevent an active killer attack through identification, assessment, and engagement.

Courts are increasingly turning to addiction rehab to replace incarceration, but McKim argues that the framework of addiction stigmatizes and undermines the women’s capacity challenge gendered subordination

Guides the student, instructor, and internship site supervisor through the entire internship process, offering advice and information for use at the internship site as well as pre-planning and assessment activities.

Examines the histories and struggles of Latinas in the criminal justice system and provides a more nuanced picture of Latinas as victims, offenders, and targets of deportation

This book explores the role of listening in community engagement and peace building efforts, bridging academic research in communication and practical applications for individual and social change.

Explores how local governments and tinterest groups create the policies that drive the national conversation: policing, economic development, housing, and challenges of taxing and spending

Argues that true crime TV and podcast series deserve our attention for what they reveal about our societal understanding of crime and punishment and the inequalities of the criminal justice system.

Explores the ways in which the NRA tells stories to build and mobilize a politically motivated network of gun owners to impact on firearms policy in the United States.

Developing an innovative approach to understanding how organized crime groups diversify into the illegal trade in natural resources, this book looks at the convergence between environmental crime and other serious crimes

A political philosopher who spent over two decades as a New York City police officer and Vermont chief of police explains the democratic commitments of policing and lays the groundwork for meaningful police innovation and reform

Examines the deeply rooted medical and philosophical ideas around abortion, fetal personhood, miscarriage and maternal mortality that continue to reverberate in the politics of women's health and reproductive autonomy.

Investigates the passage of the First Step Act in 2018 as a symbol of America’s modern criminal justice reform movement.

A critical look at the systematic corruption and brutality within the Oakland Police Department, and the more than two-decades-long saga of attempted reforms and scandals.

Tracks the history of the car alongside the history of crime and criminal justice in the United States, demonstrating how the quick and numerous developments in criminal law corresponded to the rising prominence of the automobile.

The deeply moving memoir of Sherine Tadros, an award-winning war correspondent turned activist--and her rousing defense of human rights in times of resurgent authoritarianism.

Proposes a framework for regulating the use of new policing technologies that prioritizes democratic over judicial policymaking and ensures that police actions are constitutional while allowing them to protect the public.

Weaves together riveting research with the voices of survivors to reevaluate the crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s and argue for providing historically violated communities with the resources they deserve.

The story of how Black and Brown parents, students and members of low-income communities of color organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline in their local schools and built a movement that spread across the country.

"Integrating current theory, research, and clinical practice, this book provides a practical guide for multidisciplinary practitioners working with autistic people who have offended, at all stages in their pathway,"

Investigates how the gendered and racialized logics of "believability" are defined within media culture, proposing that a mediated "economy of believability" is the context in which public bids for truth about sexual violence are made, negotiated, and authorized today.

Provides critical multidisciplinary perspectives on the organization and social consequences of campus policing. Examines campus police in relation to racialized and gendered violence, profiling, and surveillance.

Examines the rising number of Native American women being incarcerated in Indian Country and offers a theory of wellness and recovery that will create a pathway for meaningful change.

A comprehensive critique of probation and parole--and a provocative and compelling argument for abolishing both--from the former Probation Commissioner of New York City

Focuses on advancements in death investigation methods and technology as well as boundaries and limitations. Includes the areas of latent fingerprints, facial recognition, wildlife forensics, using aerial vehicles and 3D-ID.

Explores homicide research including data collection, sources, and histories; methodologies, fieldwork the circumstances, types, and variations in homicide, as well as the prevention of and responses to homicide.

Presents the latest scientific, engineering, and mathematical accident reconstruction methods, including the use of event data records (EDRs), and providing a firm scientific foundation for practitioners.

Outlines the successes and failures of the Victims’ Rights Movement (VRM), which works to support survivors of violence. Vitello urges a move away from the focus on “victimhood” and towards crime prevention policies.

Explores how solitary confinement of brown and black prisoners in rural prisons staffed by white correctional officers produce and reproduce hegemonic racial ideologies