Product Description: Former special agent and assistant director of the FBI, Ray Wannall, writes a comprehensive, insider's commentary regarding one of the most powerful, but enigmatic personalities of our time. Highly revealing and provocative, FOR THE RECORD sheds light on efforts to undermine Hoover's legacy and startling details as to events involving Martin Luther King, the Kennedy family, the Nixon administration, and much much more...read more

Product Description: A host of new classroom-friendly features have been added to the greatly expanded second edition of this concise, lively overview of the politics of criminal justice. Seamlessly integrating concepts and findings from the disciplines of political science and criminology, the new edition offers chapters on: · campaigns and elections includes summaries of key crime-related issues raised in each presidential election campaign since the 1960s;· chief executives includes a review of anti-crime policy initiatives in presidential administrations from John F...read more

Product Description: Many "radical" texts on criminal justice and criminology argue that the operations of criminal justice and the definition of criminality are essentially political. These texts are, however, largely ideological and entirely theoretical...read more

Product Description: This history of American crime policy at the federal level compiles and examines for the first time the record of recent presidential administrations in the area of crime control--their agendas and the legislation actually enacted by the Congress...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the first comprehensive account of President Herbert Hoover's policies to reform federal criminal justice administration. Beginning with the first words in his inaugural address, Hoover informed the public that a high priority of his administration would be to insist upon reorganization, qualitative improvement, new efficiencies, and formal study of justice system organizations in the federal system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the history and development of organized crime in the United States, focusing on its pervasiveness in American life