The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Editor/Author
Albanese, Jay S.
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Wiley
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-0-470-67028-6
Category: Social Sciences - Criminology & Law
Image Count:
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Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
This encyclopedia offers a state-of-the-art survey informed by the very latest theory and research. It combines this breadth of coverage with the authority and international perspective of an experienced editorial team, creating a definitive reference resource for students, scholars, and professionals in these interdisciplinary and dynamic fields.
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Table of Contents
- About the Editors
- Notes on Contributors
- Lexicon
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- A
- Abortion and Crime
- Abuse of Animals
- Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
- Accomplices
- Accreditation of Criminal Justice Agencies
- Actus Reus
- Adler Freda
- Adversary System
- Aftercare and Reentry
- Age
- Agriculture Crime
- Akers Ronald
- Alcohol Use and Crime
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Correctional Association
- American Society of Criminology
- Amnesty and Pardon
- Ancient Legal Traditions
- Animals as Victims
- Appeal
- Appellate Courts
- Arraignment
- Arrest
- Arson
- Art Crime
- Assassination
- Assault and Battery
- Assignment of Counsel for Indigents
- Attempt and Incomplete Offenses
- Auburn System
- B
- Bail
- Bail Bondsmen
- Balanced and Restorative Justice
- Battered Woman Syndrome
- Beccaria Cesare
- Bentham Jeremy
- Bill of Rights
- Biological Theories of Crime
- Biosocial Explanations of Crime
- Blended Sentencing
- Blumstein Alfred
- Boot Camps
- Boot Camps for Juveniles
- Braithwaite John
- Bribery
- Broken Windows
- Bullying
- Burglary
- C
- Campus Crime
- Capital Punishment and Costs
- Capital Punishment and Deterrence
- Capital Punishment and Legal Standing
- Capital Punishment and Wrongful Convictions
- Careers in Corrections
- Careers in Courts and Adjudication
- Careers in Criminal Justice, Private Sector
- Careers in Forensic Science
- Careers in Law Enforcement
- Case Study Research
- Causation
- Certification of Criminal Justice Academic Programs
- Chambliss William
- Chemical Castration
- Chesney-Lind Meda
- Child Abuse
- Child Savers
- Child Soldiers
- Child Victims
- Civic Engagement
- Civil Disobedience
- Civil Liberties
- Civil Remedies for Crime Victims
- Civil Rights and Criminal Justice
- Civilian Review Boards
- Classical Criminology
- Cloward Richard
- Collective Efficacy
- Colonial America Criminal Justice
- Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
- Common Law Justice Systems
- Community Corrections
- Community Policing
- Competency to Stand Trial
- Compstat
- Conflict Theories of Crime
- Consent Defense
- Conspiracy
- Constitution and Criminal Justice
- Content Analysis
- Convict Leasing
- Corporal Punishment
- Corporate Crime
- Corporate Criminal Liability
- Corpus Delicti
- Corrections Officers
- Corruption
- Costs of Crime (Issues in Measurement)
- Costs of Crime Victimization
- Counterfeiting
- Counter-Terrorism
- Cressey Donald
- Crime Drop of the 1990s
- Crime and the Economy
- Crime Mapping
- Crime Victims and the Media
- Crimes Against Humanity
- Criminal Identification, History of
- Criminal Justice Process
- Criminal Responsibility
- Criminal Sanctions
- Criminology
- Criminology, History of
- Critical Criminology
- Cross-Sectional Research Design
- Cruel and Unusual Punishment and the Eighth Amendment
- Cybercrime and Computer Crime
- D
- Dark Figure of Crime (Problems of Estimation)
- Date Rape
- Day Fines
- Decriminalization
- Defense Counsel
- Defenses to Criminal Liability
- Deinstitutionalization
- Delinquency of Minors, Contributing to
- Delinquency Prevention
- Department of Homeland Security
- Determinate Sentencing
- Deviance
- Differential Association Theory
- Differential Opportunity Theory
- Digital Forgery
- Digital Piracy
- Diminished Capacity
- Discovery
- Disenfranchisement of Felons
- Disproportionate Minority Confinement
- Disproportionate Minority Contact
- Distance Learning
- Diversion
- Domestic Violence
- Double Jeopardy
- Driving Under the Influence
- Drug Control Policy
- Drug Courts
- Drug Crimes
- Drug Enforcement
- Drug Trafficking
- Drug Use
- Due Process
- Due Process and Juvenile Justice
- Dueling
- Durkheim Emile
- E
- Education and Crime
- Education and Training in Law
- Eighth Amendment and Juveniles
- Elder Abuse
- Elderly Inmates
- Electronic Monitoring
- Electronic Surveillance
- Elements of a Crime
- Embezzlement
- Employee Theft
- Entrapment
- Environmental Crime
- Environmental Criminology
- Environmental Design
- Ethics and Criminal Justice Professions
- Europol
- Evaluation Research
- Exclusionary Rule
- Exclusionary Rule, Exceptions to
- Expert Witness
- Extortion and Blackmail
- Eyewitness Identification
- F
- Families
- Families of Law
- Family Court
- Farrington David
- Fear of Crime
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- The Beginning, 1908–1923
- Organization
- Personnel
- Reports and Publications
- Federal Law Enforcement
- Federal Prosecutors
- Felonies
- Felony Courts
- Female Genital Mutilation
- Females in the Juvenile Justice System
- Feminist Theories of Criminal Behavior
- Fifth Amendment
- Fifth Amendment and Juveniles
- Fines, Forfeiture, and Fees
- Firearms
- Firearms Trafficking
- Foreign Language
- Forensic Evidence
- Forensic Science
- Fourth Amendment
- Fourth Amendment and Juveniles
- Fraud
- Furlough
- G
- Gambling
- Geis Gilbert
- Gender
- General Strain Theory
- Genetic Theories of Criminal Behavior
- Genetics and Crime
- Genocide
- Geographic Location
- Globalization and Crime
- Grand Jury
- Group Homes/Foster Care
- Gun Control Policy
- H
- Habeas Corpus
- Halfway Houses
- Hate Crime
- Hate Crime (Issues in Measurement)
- Hate Crime—Sexual Orientation
- Hirschi Travis
- Historical Research Methods
- Homeland Security
- Homicide, Criminal (Manslaughter)
- Homicide, Criminal (Murder)
- Hoover J. Edgar
- House Arrest
- Human Ecology
- Human Rights
- Human Smuggling
- Human Trafficking
- Human Trafficking (Issues in Measurement)
- I
- Identity Theft
- Illegal Immigrants and Corrections
- Immigration, Crime, and Criminal Justice
- Immunity
- Indeterminate Sentencing
- Indictment
- Indigent Defendants
- Initial Appearance
- Inmate Subcultures
- Innocence Project
- Insanity Defense
- Institutional Anomie Theory
- Intellectual Property Theft
- Intelligence and Crime
- Intelligence-led Policing
- Intensive Supervision Programs
- Intermediate Sanctions
- International Crime Victims Survey
- International Crimes
- International Criminal Justice Standards
- International Criminal Law
- International Guidelines on Victimization
- International Law Enforcement
- International Legal Status of Children
- International Rates of Imprisonment
- International and Supranational Courts
- Internships
- Interpol
- Interrogations and Confessions
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Intoxication Defense
- Irwin John
- Islamic Law Justice Systems
- J
- Jails
- Judge, Role of
- Judicial Selection at the State Level
- Judicial Selection and Removal at the Federal Level
- Judicial Training
- Jurisdiction
- Jury Selection and Behavior
- Jury Trial
- Justice on the American Frontier
- Juvenile Arrests
- Juvenile Court
- Juvenile Delinquency Trends
- Juvenile Detention
- Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
- Juvenile Probation
- Juvenile Sex Offenders
- Juvenile Street Gangs
- Juvenile Violence
- Juveniles and Criminal Procedure
- Juveniles Tried as Adults
- Juveniles as Victims
- K
- Kidnapping
- L
- Labeling and Symbolic Interaction Theories of Crime
- Labor History and Violence
- Larceny (Theft)
- Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
- Learning Communities
- Left Realism Theory
- Legal Profession, History of
- Legal Rights of Prisoners
- Life-Course and Development Theories of Crime
- Loansharking
- Lombroso Cesare
- Longitudinal Research
- Lynching
- M
- McCord Joan
- McKay Henry
- Mandatory Sentences
- Maritime Piracy, History of
- Marxist Criminology
- Mass Murder
- Matza David
- Media
- Mens Rea
- Mental Illness and Crime
- Merton Robert
- Meta-Analysis
- Military Law Enforcement
- Miranda Warning
- Misdemeanor Courts
- Mistake of Fact/Mistake of Law
- Mixed Methods
- Money Laundering
- Moral Development
- Motion to Suppress
- Mounted Police Tradition
- Mueller Gerhard O. W.
- Municipal Law Enforcement
- N
- National Institute of Justice
- National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
- National Prison Congress
- Nativism
- Necessity
- Ness Eliot
- New York City Police Department
- NIBRS
- O
- Obscenity and Pornography
- Obstruction of Justice
- Offender Classification
- Official Records
- Ohlin Lloyd
- Organized Crime
- Overcriminalization
- P
- Parens Patriae
- Parental Responsibility for Juveniles' Acts
- Parental Rights, Termination of
- Parole and Parolees
- Peacemaking Criminology
- Peel Robert and The Metropolitan Police
- Peer Groups and Delinquency
- Penal Colonies
- Pennsylvania System
- Perjury
- Petersilia Joan
- Piracy in Colonial Era
- Plea-bargaining
- Police and Civil Liability
- Police Culture
- Police Discretion
- Police Handling of Crime Victims
- Police History, United States
- Police Misconduct
- Police Operations
- Police Patrol
- Police Pursuits
- Police Stress
- Police Training
- Police Use of Force
- Policewomen and Matrons
- Policing Juveniles
- Policy Research
- Political Patronage
- Politics and Crime Policy
- Pornography
- Positive Criminology
- Post Conviction Review
- Power Control Theory
- Prediction of Crime (Issues in Measurement)
- Prejudicial Pretrial Publicity
- Preliminary Hearing
- Presentence Investigation Report
- Pretrial Detention
- Pretrial Diversion
- Pretrial Release
- Pretrial Service Agencies
- Prison Administration
- Prison Gangs
- Prison Riots
- Prison Violence
- Prison Work
- Prisonization
- Prisons
- Prisons for Juveniles
- Prisons, Privatization of
- Private Police Services
- Probable Cause
- Probation and Probationers
- Problem-oriented Policing
- Problem-solving Courts
- Professionalism in Corrections
- Progressive Era
- Prosecutor
- Prosecutorial Discretion
- Prostitution
- Protection against Self-Incrimination
- Protection of Human Subjects
- Psychological Theories of Crime
- Q
- Qualitative Research
- Quantitative Research
- Quasi-Experimental Designs
- Quinney Richard
- R
- Race/Ethnicity
- Racial Profiling
- Racial Profiling (Issues in Measurement)
- Racketeering
- Rampage Killings
- Rape and Sexual Assault
- Rational Choice Theory
- Reasonable Suspicion
- Reasonableness Standard
- Recidivism (Issues in Measurement)
- Reckless Walter
- Reformatory Movement
- Rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation for Juveniles
- Reiss Albert
- Reliability
- Religion/Ideology and Crime
- Repeat Victimization
- Residential Treatment Centers
- Restitution
- Restorative Justice
- Retribution
- Right to Counsel
- Rioting in America
- Roaring Twenties
- Robbery
- Routine Activities and Crime
- Rural Policing
- S
- Sampling
- Scarpitti Frank
- School Crime (Problems in Measurement)
- School Crime and Violence
- Schools
- Search and Seizure
- Search Warrant Exceptions
- Search Warrants
- Secondary Data Analysis
- Selective Incapacitation
- Self-Control Theory
- Self-Defense
- Self-Report Surveys
- Sellin Thorsten
- Sentencing
- Sentencing Guidelines
- Serial Murder
- Service Learning
- Sex Crimes
- Sex Offenders
- Sex in Prison
- Shaming Punishments
- Shaw Clifford
- Sheriffs and County Law Enforcement
- Sheriff's Departments
- Sherman Lawrence
- Shock Probation
- Shoplifting
- Short James
- Sixth Amendment
- Sixth Amendment and Juveniles
- Smuggling of Cultural Artifacts
- Social Bandits
- Social Bonding Theory
- Social Control Theories
- Social Disorganization Theory
- Social Learning Theory
- Social Process Theories
- Sources of Criminal Law (Statutes, Case Law, Ordinances, Regulations)
- Southern Crime and Justice
- Stalking and Cyberstalking
- State Law Enforcement
- State Prosecutors
- Status Offenders/Offenses
- Statutory Rape
- Stolen Goods Markets
- Strain Theory
- Strict Liability
- Subcultural Theories of Crime
- Substantive versus Procedural Criminal Law
- Suicide, Assisted
- Suicide by Cop
- Survey Research
- Suspended Sentence
- Sutherland Edwin
- Sykes Gresham
- T
- Tannenbaum Frank
- Teen Courts
- Terrorism, Domestic
- Terrorism, International
- Theoretical Integration
- Theory and Public Policy
- Therapeutic Communities
- Three Strikes Laws
- Torture
- Trafficking in Body Parts (Organs)
- Training in Corrections
- Training in Law Enforcement
- Transfer of Juveniles to Adult Court
- Transnational Gangs
- Transnational Organized Crime
- Treason
- Trespass
- Truth in Sentencing
- U
- United Nations Crime Conventions
- United Nations Role in International Criminal Justice
- US Marshals
- USA Patriot Act
- V
- Validity
- Victim Advocacy
- Victim Compensation Programs
- Victim Impact Statements
- Victim–Offender Relationship
- Victim Precipitation
- Victim Profiles
- Victim/Witness Services in Juvenile Court
- Victimization, Theories of
- Victimization Patterns
- Victimization Surveys
- Victimless Crime
- Victimology
- Victims of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
- Victims' Rights
- Vigilantism
- Violence Against Women Act
- Vollmer August
- Voyeurism and Exhibitionism
- W
- Warehousing Prisoners
- Watch and Ward System
- White-collar Crimes
- Wilderness Programs
- Wilson James Q.
- Wilson O. W.
- Witch Hunts
- Witnesses, Examination of
- Wolfgang Marvin
- Women in Prison
- Workplace Violence
- Wrongful Convictions