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Criminology and Justice Studies


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Criminology and Justice Studies publishes books for undergraduate and graduate courses that model the best scholarship and innovative thinking in the criminology and criminal justice field today, but in a style that connects this scholarship to a wide audience of students, researchers, and possibly the general public.

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White-Collar Crime An Opportunity Perspective

White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective

4th Edition

By Michael L. Benson, Sally S. Simpson, Melissa Rorie, Jay P. Kennedy
January 22, 2024

White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense. The authors explicate the processes and situational conditions that facilitate ...

Gratuitous Angst in White America A Theory of Whiteness and Crime

Gratuitous Angst in White America: A Theory of Whiteness and Crime

1st Edition

By Deena A. Isom
December 19, 2023

Gratuitous Angst in White America presents a new criminological theory that explains the racialized experiences of white people. Unlike orthodox traditions that assume whiteness as normative or progressive traditions that center the experiences of the marginalized and oppressed, the theory of ...

Violence in the Heights The Torn Social Fabric of Inner-City Neighborhoods

Violence in the Heights: The Torn Social Fabric of Inner-City Neighborhoods

1st Edition

By Eileen M. Ahlin
June 30, 2023

Given the media attention and research focus on big cities with large minority populations, people have grown accustomed to associating violence with these attributes. Violence in the Heights counters that narrative to provide a fresh perspective on inner-city violence with a close look at violence...

Human Trafficking Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Human Trafficking: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

3rd Edition

Edited By Mary C. Burke
February 28, 2022

In Human Trafficking: Interdisciplinary Perspectives experts from a wide range of disciplinary and professional backgrounds provide a uniquely comprehensive understanding of human trafficking in the twenty-first century. Chapter authors consider historical, sociocultural, legal, public health, ...

She Took Justice The Black Woman, Law, and Power – 1619 to 1969

She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power – 1619 to 1969

1st Edition

By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
November 30, 2020

She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power – 1619 to 1969 proves that The Black Woman liberated herself. Readers go on a journey from the invasion of Africa into the Colonial period and the Civil Rights Movement. The Black Woman reveals power, from Queen Nzingha to Shirley Chisholm.In ...

Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice An International Dilemma

Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice: An International Dilemma

2nd Edition

By Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Shaun Gabbidon
September 25, 2020

Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice: An International Dilemma, Second Edition, takes a unique comparative approach to the exploration of race- and ethnicity-related justice issues in five countries around the world. Using the colonial model as a theoretical lens, Owusu-Bempah and Gabbidon analyse ...

Shopping While Black Consumer Racial Profiling in America

Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America

1st Edition

By Shaun L. Gabbidon, George E. Higgins
June 03, 2020

Winner of the 2022 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award!Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America lays out the results of nearly two decades of research on racial profiling in retail settings. Gabbidon and Higgins address the generally neglected racial ...

Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime

Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime

4th Edition

By Shaun L. Gabbidon
January 23, 2020

Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime, Fourth Edition, is the only text to look at the array of mainstream and unconventional explanations for crime as they relate to racial and ethnic populations. Each chapter begins with a historical review of each theoretical perspective and how its ...

White-Collar Crime An Opportunity Perspective

White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective

3rd Edition

By Michael L. Benson, Sally S. Simpson
January 09, 2018

White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime within a coherent theoretical framework. Using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense, the authors uncover the processes and situational...

Voices from Criminal Justice Insider Perspectives, Outsider Experiences

Voices from Criminal Justice: Insider Perspectives, Outsider Experiences

2nd Edition

Edited By Heith Copes, Mark Pogrebin
November 17, 2016

Voices from Criminal Justice, Second Edition, gives students rich insight into the criminal justice system from the point of view of practitioners, as well as outsiders—citizens, clients, jurors, probationers, or inmates. These qualitative and teachable articles cover all three ...

Research Methods in Crime and Justice

Research Methods in Crime and Justice

2nd Edition

By Brian Withrow
November 14, 2016

Research Methods in Crime and Justice, 2nd Edition, is an innovative text/online hybrid for undergraduate Criminal Justice Research Methods courses. This material uniquely addresses the fundamental teaching issue for this course: how to show students that success as criminal justice practitioners ...

Corrections Foundations for the Future

Corrections: Foundations for the Future

2nd Edition

By Jeanne B. Stinchcomb
February 11, 2011

"Jeanne Stinchcomb’s book makes an excellent contribution to the field of corrections serving as a substantial resource for those teaching corrections and as a practical inspiration for those students who will ultimately lead the profession. Stinchomb carefully crafts a balanced perspective that ...

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