BOOKS

Women Behind Bars: Gender and Race in US Prisons
Vernetta D. Young and Rebecca Reviere

Today's prisons are increasingly filled with poor, dark-skinned, single mothers locked up for low-level drug involvement—with serious ramifications for the corrections system.    More >

China's Nuclear Future
Paul J. Bolt and Albert S. Willner, editors

In the face of significant changes in the contemporary geopolitical environment, China's longstanding policy of maintaining a minimal nuclear stockpile may also be shifting. China's    More >

Presidential Commissions and National Security: The Politics of Damage Control
Kenneth Kitts

Kenneth Kitts offers entry into the highly political, behind-closed-doors world of blue-ribbon investigative commissions convened in the aftermath of national security    More >

Democracy Rising: Assessing the Global Challenges
Heraldo Muñoz, editor

This timely assessment of both the progress toward democratic governance globally and the significant challenges that democracies face is the outcome of a seminar organized by the Community    More >

Restorative Justice: Healing the Foundations of Our Everyday Lives, 2nd edition
Dennis Sullivan and Larry Tifft

What is restorative justice, and how should it be used to reform our society? Dennis Sullivan and Larry Tifft passionately expound a radical critique of the existing justice system and    More >

Understanding Today's Police, 4th edition
Mark L. Dantzker

Clearly introducing the complexities of policing today, Mark Dantzker—a former police officer himself—outlines key professional duties in the context of the changing nature of    More >

Designing Out Crime from Products and Systems
Ronald V. Clarke and Graeme R. Newman

From tamper-proof seals to cell phones that prevent theft-of-service, it has been proven that modifying products can reduce or even eliminate specific categories of crime. The contributors    More >

Policing Illegal Drug Markets: Geographic Approaches to Crime Reduction
George Rengert, Jerry H. Ratcliffe, and Sanjoy Chakravorty

A multipronged policing strategy to reduce drug trafficking in local communities is proposed in this new book by three Temple University researchers. The proposed strategy has been developed    More >

Public Policing in the 21st Century: Issues and Dilemmas in the U.S. and Canada
James F. Hodgson and Catherine Orban, editors

This reader analyzes how U.S. and Canadian police agencies are responding to today's unprecedented challenges, including terrorist threats, school shootings, demands for increased    More >

Old Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism in the West
David I. Kertzer, editor

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist! Old Demons, New Debates offers a provocative new view of the recent upsurge of anti-Semitism in the West. The authors show how today's    More >

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