Product Description: Prentice Hall's Masters Series in Criminology brings the work of true masters to life for a new audience of readers, presenting brief and accessible introductions to crime and criminology topics from some of the leading scholars in criminology today...read more

Argues that a policy of mass incarceration is ineffective and that prison expenditures could have greater impact on criminal violence if spent on prevention and rehabilitation programs

KEY BENEFIT: Crisis in American Institutions provides readers with an array of engaging articles that reflect America's social problems and encourage critical thought. The text contains a breadth of articles that encompasses a review of the best of contemporary writing on American social problems. New topics include: the erosion of retirement security, the rise in debt among young adullts, the limits of social mobility in the U.S., gender discrimination in the workplace, white privilege, global terrorism, police reform, racial disparities in the criminal justice system. For anyone interested in social problems, American society, or social work.

A compassionate investigation into drug abuse, violent behavior, and depression in today's middle-class teens, written by the Pulitzer Prize finalist author of Punishment in America defines a 'culture of exclusion' that reinforces negative behavior through intolerance, the misuse of medication, and harsh cultural divisions. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

The myth of a color-blind society is deconstructed in this powerful new look at race in America that consults sociologists, economists, criminologists, political scientists, and legal scholars in the search for answers to why so many white Americans think racism is no longer a problem. (Social Science)

Product Description: Book by Currie, Elliott, Skolnick, Jerome H.

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Criticizes the current drug policy, explains why drug abuse is more widespread in the United States than other countries, and argues that we must solve the root causes of drug addiction (view table of contents)

Interviews with twenty youths confined in an institution in the juvenile justice system for such crimes as drug dealing and drug use reveal the tough reality of the world in which they live

Probes the social, political, and economic factors behind America's crime problem, challenges conservative views of permissiveness and judicial weakness, and calls for a new approach to solving the crime crisis