Criminal & Community Justice: New Criminal & Community Justice Resources

Crime in the United States contains findings from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the offenses known to law enforcement. This reference is the most comprehensive official compilation of crime statistics in the United States.

Recently, twenty-first-century technology has combined with perceived injustices in the day-to-day operations of the criminal justice system, culminating in an explosion of demands for justice for citizens of all races and socioeconomic status- especially those whose encounters with agents of law enforcement turn violent.

"Injustice for All" systematically diagnoses why and where American criminal justice goes wrong, and offers functional proposals for reform. By changing who pays for what, how people are appointed, how people are punished, and which things are criminalized, we can make the US a country which guarantees justice for all.

Lady Justice is destined to be treasured and passed from hand to hand for generations to come, not just among lawyers and law students, but among all optimistic and hopeful Americans.

Ptacek draws on in-depth interviews with sixty women from wealthy, professional, working-class, and poor communities to investigate how social class shapes both women's experiences of violence and the responses of their communities to this violence.

The focus is on the principles and policy of a separate and distinct system of juvenile justice.

This Handbook continues to define and capture the field of green criminology and is essential reading for students and researchers engaged in green crime and environmental harm.

The author weaves an electrifying combination of critical race theory, spiritual inheritance, decolonization, self-determination, and armed resistance, into a critical autoethnographic journey that illuminates the rituals of revolution required for dismantling the institution of American policing.

Explores the phenomenon of depolicing, covering its causes, its extent, and possible solutions based on police officers' own experiences.

[This book] examines the parallels between stop-and-frisk policing and sexual harassment

This book explores the impact that training has on officer decision-making during calls for service where an individual has a mental health disorder, from both an empirical and historical perspective.

This book is the first comprehensive overview of police divestment, using international examples and case studies to reimagine community safety beyond policing and imprisonment. Showcasing a range of practical examples, this topical book will be relevant for academics, policy makers, activists and all those interested in the Black Lives Matter movement, protest movements and the renewed interest in policing and abolitionism more generally.

Simonson points out the problems posed by the American carceral state present profound moral questions of our time. She shows how to shift power away from the elite actors at the front of the courtroom and toward the swelling collective in the back.

A former prosecutor turned law professor explains the rise of mass incarceration and the path to reform.

The Slow Violence of Immigration Court sheds light on the experiences of migrants from the "Northern Triangle" (Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador) as they navigate legal processes, deportation proceedings, immigration court, and the immigration system writ large.

Gender-based violence is explored from the perspective of young women in this essential guide for those working with young people.

This book explains how religion--particularly American Protestant moralities--blended with nineteenth-century race science, colonialism, and reform movements to generate the Drug War.

First published over ten years ago, Snitching has become known as the "informant bible," a leading text for advocates, attorneys, journalists, and scholars. This updated edition contains a decade worth of new stories, new data, new legislation and legal developments, much of it generated by the book itself and by Natapoff's own work.

Surviving prison as an innocent person is a surreal nightmare no one wants to think about. But it can happen to you. Justin Brooks has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison.

With fascinating ethnographic and interview data, James Alexander explores the disappearance of localized relationships and the rise in youth violence in a South London housing estate. Evaluating the effectiveness of youth work programs, he considers the impact of the gradual move from neighborly to professional support for young people.

In the wake of George Floyd's death and under extreme public pressure, many politicians, police chiefs, and court officials acknowledged the existence of systemic inequality in the fields of policing and criminal justice. However, with few exceptions, one actor within the justice system remained painfully silent: prosecutors. Progressive Prosecution both argues that this group should be at the forefront of calls for criminal justice reform and provides a guidebook for how this can be achieved.

A powerful, engaging book that critiques the history of race, law, and justice by examining where race lives and breathes across the U.S. criminal-legal system.

This book reveals the human and social costs of sexual assault prosecution when courts rely on forensic science and medico-legal technologies that reproduce rape myths, inequality, and racial injustice under the guise of scientific authority.

Despite representing roughly 16 percent of incarcerated women, Latina women and girls are often rendered invisible in accounts of American crime and punishment. In Latinas in the Criminal Justice System, Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko bring together a group of distinguished scholars to provide a more complete, nuanced picture of Latinas as victims, offenders, and targets of deportation.

Examines police administration from multiple perspectives: a systems perspective (emphasizing the interrelatedness among units and organizations); a traditional, structural perspective (administrative principles, management functions, and the importance of written guidelines); a human behavioral perspective (the human element in organizations); and a strategic management perspective (communications and information systems, performance evaluation, strategies and tactics, and prevailing and promising approaches to increasing effectiveness of police agencies).

What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. To many observers, the protests appeared to be without precedent in their scale and persistence. Hinton shows that the events of 2020 had clear precursors--and any attempt to understand our current crisis requires a reckoning with the recent past.

This work assesses the various meanings attached to calls for police reform in the public discourse on social media, providing readers with a greater appreciation of the assumptions, empirical claims, and rhetorical nuances that underpin the current dialogue about police policy.

This book examines police decision making in actual situations that constitute ethical "gray areas," exploring the moral challenges police face when balancing the maintenance of order with respect for individual rights.

Following the tragic deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and others at the hands of police, interest in body-worn cameras for local, state, and federal law enforcement has skyrocketed. Cops, Cameras, and Crisis, provides an up-to-date analysis of this promising technology, evaluating whether it can address today's crisis in police legitimacy.

Analyzing sex offense laws and false claims, this book shows that laws based on vengeance rather than justice or evidence create new forms of harm while failing to address the real and pervasive problem of sexual violence.

In this updated third edition, Peter Andreas brings the story of the intensifying practice and politics of policing drugs and migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border to the present day and helps make sense of how the busiest border in the world has also become one of the most heavily fortified.

Generativity or 'giving back' is regarded as a common life stage, occurring for many around middle age. For the first time, this book offers qualitative research on the lives and social relationships of older imprisoned women.

Following the tragic deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and others at the hands of police, interest in body-worn cameras for local, state, and federal law enforcement has skyrocketed. Cops, Cameras, and Crisis, provides an up-to-date analysis of this promising technology, evaluating whether it can address today's crisis in police legitimacy.

This book examines police decision making in actual situations that constitute ethical "gray areas," exploring the moral challenges police face when balancing the maintenance of order with respect for individual rights.

Explores the phenomenon of depolicing, covering its causes, its extent, and possible solutions based on police officers' own experiences.