The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment

ISBN-13: 9781118519714 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 1448 str.

Jennings, Wesley G.

Opis

The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment provides the most comprehensive reference for a vast number of topics relevant to crime and punishment with a unique focus on the multi/interdisciplinary and international aspects of these topics and historical perspectives on crime and punishment around the world.

• Named as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles of 2016
• Comprising nearly 300 entries, this invaluable reference resource serves as the most up-to-date and wide-ranging resource on crime and punishment
• Offers a global perspective from an international team of leading scholars, including coverage of the strong and rapidly growing body of work on criminology in Europe, Asia, and other areas
• Acknowledges the overlap of criminology and criminal justice with a number of disciplines such as sociology, psychology, epidemiology, history, economics, and public health, and law
• Entry topics are organized around 12 core substantive areas: international aspects, multi/interdisciplinary aspects, crime types, corrections, policing, law and justice, research methods, criminological theory, correlates of crime, organizations and institutions (U.S.), victimology, and special populations
• Organized, authored and Edited by leading scholars, all of whom come to the project with exemplary track records and international standing

3 Volumes

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The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment provides the most up–to–date and comprehensive reference for a vast number of topics relevant to crime and punishment with a unique focus on the multi/interdisciplinary and international aspects of these topics and historical perspectives on crime and punishment around the world.

Recenzje

This work may just start a revolution in the production of subject encyclopedias...concisely written entries refrain from excessive technical jargon without compromising definitions or information. Articles are comprehensible to students and professionals or criminal–justice aficionados alike...This resource belongs in every public and academic library...." Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels – CHOICE, Editor Picks, November 2016

O autorze

Wesley G. Jennings is an Associate Professor, Associate Chair, and Undergraduate Director in the Department of Criminology, has a Courtesy Appointment in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, and is a Faculty Affiliate of the Florida Mental Health Institute in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences at the University of South Florida. In addition, he also has a Courtesy Appointment in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy and is a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Child Health Policy in the College of Medicine at the University of Florida. He is the current Editor of the American Journal of Criminal Justice and he has served as a contributing editor for The Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology (Wiley 2014).  

Blurb

The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment serves as the most up–to–date and comprehensive resource on crime and punishment. The editors have included nearly 300 entries on a myriad of topics in the areas of crime types, corrections, policing, law and justice, research methods, criminological theory, correlates of crime, organizations and institutions (U.S.), victimology, and special populations.  

Acknowledging the overlap of criminology and criminal justice with a number of disciplines such as sociology, psychology, epidemiology, history, economics, and public health, and law every entry addresses multi/interdisciplinary and international aspects of study and offers historical perspectives on crime and punishment around the world.

Written with clarity and accessibility in mind for students and professionals alike, this reference work offers a go–to scholarly place to quickly educate oneself on familiar and unfamiliar topics in the criminological and criminal justice literature.