BOOKS

Corrections: A Humanistic Approach
Hans Toch

In his 28 essays, Professor Toch adopts the perspective of humanistic psychology to discuss: reforming prisons; reforming prisoners; working with disturbed prisoners; prison violence; and    More >

Policing for Prevention: Reducing Crime, Public Intoxication and Injury
Ross Homel, editor

Evaluates programs to reduce crime and disorder related to alcohol and drug abuse in pubs, nightclubs, parks and elsewhere. Case studies are presented from Australia, Europe and North    More >

Business and Crime Prevention
Marcus Felson and Ronald V. Clarke, editors

In papers delivered at a conference co-sponsored by the US National Institute of Justice and Rutgers University, scholars and business analysts explore how criminological knowledge can    More >

Preventing Mass Transit Crime
Ronald V. Clarke, editor

An anthology presents 8 previously unpublished studies on the use of situational crime prevention in urban mass transit systems. Marcus Felson et al.'s evaluation of 1991-1992    More >

Crime Mapping and Crime Prevention
David Weisburd and Tom McEwen, editors

Explores recent advances in the uses of crime mapping in prevention programs and in criminological research. Case examples illustrate the benefits of crime mapping for community policing and    More >

Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968
Heda Margolius Kovály, translated by Franci Epstein and Helen Epstein with the author

Heda Margolius Kovály (1919–2010) endured both the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz and the brutality of Czechoslovakia's postwar Stalinist government. Her husband, after    More >

The American Jewish Experience, 2nd edition
Jonathan D. Sarna, editor

Offering a range of the liveliest, most informative writing on Jews in America from colonial times to the present, the revised edition of this popular collection, with nine new chapters,    More >

Making a Life Building a Community: A History of the Jews of Hartford
David G. Dalin and Jonathan Rosenbaum

In the first analytical history of this important Jewish community, David G. Dalin and Jonathan Rosenbaum draw extensively on primary sources to place Hartford within the larger contexts of    More >

Reasons for Hope: Instructive Experiences in Rural Development
Anirudh Krishna, Norman Uphoff, and Milton J. Esman, editors

Eighteen of the world's most exemplary rural development successes from Africa, Asia, and Latin America are presented in the words of their originators and managers. This is a true story    More >

UnCivil Wars: International Security and the New Internal Conflicts
Donald M. Snow

UnCivil Wars examines the new pattern of internal, or civil, war that has emerged in the post-Cold War world. Donald Snow points out that the new internal wars tend to occur in the least    More >

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