Criminology & Criminal Justice

"Voices from Criminal Justice is a fresh perspective and a long-needed addition to the literature for the teaching criminal justice and criminology. I plan to use this reader as a supplement to my Introduction to Criminal Justice course and as a required text in a Criminal Justice graduate proseminar."—Paul Cromwell, Criminology, University of South Florida Polytechnic

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In Debates in Criminal Justice, editors Tom Ellis and Stephen Savage take an innovative approach to teaching Criminal Justice Studies.  The ten debates in this book show students multiple sides of core issues, which helps them develop critical thinking and analysis skills.

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In Sentencing and the Legitimacy of Trial Justice, Ralph Henham explores the under-researched relationship between sentencing and the legitimacy of punishment. He argues that there is an increasing gap between what society percieves as legitimate punishment and the sentencing decisions of criminal courts.

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Emotions, Genre, and Justice in Film and Television considers emotions as structures of feeling that are collectively shared and historically developed. The author, Deidre Pribram, focuses on the justice genres—movie and television programs concerned with crime, law, and social order—to examine how fictional police, detective, and legal stories participate in collectively realized conceptions of emotion.

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"Dr. Stinchcomb has written a comprehensive, yet eminently readable, textbook that takes a in-depth look at modern correctional practices....This is book that can be read in pieces and parts, or as a whole. The style she uses permits a ready understanding of the material and draws the reader into the deeper issues she poses at the end of the book." —Don Leach, Editorial Board Member of the Americans for Effective Law Enforcement