In this book, the authors examine how women prisoners' lives changed over time and how they were ...

This book examines several contentious and under-studied criminal career issues using one of the ...

Violent crime in America shot up sharply in the mid-1980s and continued to climb until 1991, afte...

In recent decades, the nature of criminal punishment has undergone change in the United States. T...

Why do corporations comply with the law? When companies violate the law, what kinds of interventi...

This book addresses how and why criminal offenders repeat their actions after being released from...

A field study, featuring intensive personal interviews, of young people living on the streets of ...

This field study features intensive personal interviews of more than four hundred young people wh...

Forst takes a fresh perspective on the assessment of criminal justice policy.

Research has revealed that a wide range of factors, from broad societal influences to individual ...

Weisburd and Waring offer here the first detailed examination of the white-collar criminal career.

RECRIMINALIZING DELINQUENCY examines one state's response to violent juvenile crime through waive...

A network analysis of over 22,000 delinquent youths in Stockholm between 1991-5.

Investigates the role of federal judges in prison reform, and policy making in general.

This 2005 book provides an analytic overview and assessment of the changing nature of crime in th...

Policing Gangs in America describes the assumptions, issues, problems, and events that characteri...

This book examines several contentious and under-studied criminal career issues using one of the ...

This book provides a critical assessment of strategies to control the illegal conduct of corporat...

Violent crime in America shot up sharply in the mid-1980s and continued to climb until 1991, afte...

Schools and Delinquency examines the role of the school in preventing delinquency.

An exploration of the extent and causes of racial and ethnic differences in violent crime.

This book presents a comprehensive summary of how well adult crime, antisocial behaviour and anti...

This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date summary of how well adult crime, antisocial beh...

What Works in Corrections examines the impact of correctional interventions, management policies,...

This book contains essays by nine leading criminologists that seek to answer questions by describ...

The idea of peer influence as a cause of delinquency has been around at least since the 1930s, wh...

The contributors present various opinions about the causes of violence in American cities.

How can the average 'criminal career' be characterized and how common are career criminals? Does ...

By focusing attention on individuals rather than on aggregates, this book takes a novel approach ...

Volume II takes an in-depth look at the various aspects of criminal careers, including the relati...

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research, development and evaluation agency of the...

25 Years of Criminal Justice Research