Digital Reference Shelf: Criminal Justice

This encyclopedia is a one-stop resource for exploring the history, societal factors, and current dimensions of violence in America in all its forms, from the nation's founding to modern-day trends, laws, viewpoints, and media depictions. Providing a nuanced lens through which to view violence, including its underlying causes, its iterations, and possible solutions, this work offers broad, authoritative coverage. For students, law enforcement, and school administrators.

Explores crime and punishment throughout the world through the eyes of leading experts, local authors and scholars, and government officials.