Looking Back in Crime: What Happened on This Date in Criminal Justice History?

ISBN-13: 9780367599195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 318 str.

James O. Windell

Opis

Compiling a literal history of criminal justice, this book offers hundreds of dates, events, facts, anecdotes, and historical tidbits. Written in an accessible and engaging style, it presents at least one fact and significant event for every day of the year, including famous and not-so-famous crimes, the development of law enforcement, criminal

Spis treści

Introduction. January. February. March. April. May. June. July. August. September. October. November. December. Index.

O autorze

A juvenile court psychologist, an author, a newspaper columnist, an editor, and a criminal justice college instructor, James Windell, M.A has worked in the juvenile justice system for more than thirty-five years. Currently, he is a psychologist in the Oakland County Circuit Courts Family Division, in Oakland County, Michigan doing group therapy with delinquents. He developed a group training program for parents of delinquents which won a national award. Since 2000 he has been an adjunct instructor in the Criminal Justice Department at Wayne State University in Detroit. Since September, 2013, he has also become a lecturer in criminal justice at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He has published several books and has written a weekly column, "Coping With Kids", for the Oakland Press and the Staten Island Advance for the past 27 years. He has also appeared on more than 180 radio and television shows, including both local and national talk shows.