Product Description: There has been a great deal of research on criminal victimization, legislation supporting victims and victim programmes and services, but no book has taken recent stock of these advances. Victims of Crime provides a state of the art review of many facets of criminal victimization and many of the efforts that have been made to ameliorate the pain and loss of crime victims...read more

Product Description: Despite strenuous governmental efforts over the past decade, illicit drug use continues to pose a serious challenge to society and, in particular, inner city communities in the United States. Fighting Back describes the strategies employed by law enforcement agencies and community groups working in partnership to prevent and discourage drug dealing...read more

Book by Lewis, Dan A., Lurigio, Arthur J.

Product Description: Focuses upon the basic statistical problems criminal justice practitioners are likely to encounter. The book presents statistics as a set of tools or procedures for addressing specific data analysis problems rather than formal, somewhat abstract subject...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The articles presented in Practical Applications for Criminal Justice Statistics discuss a variety of criminal justice-related issues or problems and were chosen from a broad field of previously and never before published research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This groundbreaking book presents a definitive look at the history of crime prevention strategies and policies in the United States. It analyzes the failures of American crime prevention techniques and possible solutions our country might seek to reduce crime, drugs, and disorder in the future...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)