Criminology

Collection of original essays specifically designed to offer students, faculty, policy makers, and others an in-depth overview of the empirical, theoretical, and political contributions made by critical criminologists around the world.

Straightforward and definitive overviews of 100 key topics comprising traditional criminology and its modern outgrowths,

The contributors to the 'Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment' are experts from 16 countries, with an advisory board, including renowned researchers and librarians from centres of criminal justice, aiding the project.

Covers both murder and violent crime in their variant forms. Included are biographies, chronologies special interest inset boxes, up to 100 photographs and appendices.

Covers a number of broad thematic areas including basic concepts and theories of criminal justice, juvenile justice, public policy, and the media specific groups and populations.

Covers the status of victims within the criminal justice system, and topics of deterring and preventing victimization in the first place and responding to victims' needs.

Covers corporate, financial and non-violent crime.

Covers Corrections and Criminal Justice Supervision; Courts, Sentencing and the Judicial System; Crimes, Criminals and Victims; Crime Places and Situations; Explanations for Criminal Behavior; Forensic Science; Data, Methods and Statistics; Police and Law Enforcement; Psychology of Law; Social Interventions and Prevention.