Pornography in a Free Society deals with what has been called the 'civil war over smut'. It addre...

'Getting tough on crime' has been one of the favorite rallying cries of American politicians in t...

The forty-percent drop in crime that occurred across the U.S. from 1991 to 2000 remains largely a...

American Juvenile Justice is a definitive volume for courses on the criminology and policy analys...

The death penalty is not simply the most serious criminal punishment. It has been a singular soci...

In the past decade, alarming reports of youth violence have appeared with increasing frequency in...

Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democr...

This book presents a comprehensive examination of the drug control policy process in the United S...

Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death penalty, either officially or i...

Many theories - from the routine to the bizarre - have been offered up to explain the crime decli...

This book is the most comprehensive treatment of the politics and the impact of the 'get tough' c...

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