The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Justice provides a comprehensive introduction to and an overview of the operation of the American criminal justice system. -- copied from publisher's site (Full text) Service = Oxford University Press

The book presents a wide-ranging overview and analysis of violent and sexual crimes, property crimes, transactional crimes, transnational crimes, and crimes against morality. -- copied from publisher's site (Full text) Service = Oxford University Press

Bringing together top scholars in criminology, public policy, psychology, and sociology, the volume includes critical reviews of the main theories that form the basis of crime prevention, evidence-based assessments of the effectiveness of the most important interventions, and cross-cutting essays that examine implementation, evaluation methodology, and public policy. -- copied from publisher's site (Full text) Service = Oxford University Press

This book...addresses a wide range of topics relevant to criminology, including socioeconomic factors that contribute to crime such as biology, community and inequality, emotions, immigration, social institutions, social learning, social support, parenting, peer networks, street culture, and market economy. It also examines the developmental criminology perspective and the developmental risk factors for crime and delinquency across five key risk domains (individuals, family, peers, schools, and community). -- copied from publisher's site (Full text) Service = Oxford University Press

This handbook explores the links among ethnicity, crime, and immigration in various countries such as the United States, Japan, Canada, France, Italy, Norway, England and Wales, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and Guatemala. -- copied from publisher's site (Full text) Service = Oxford University Press

The Handbook includes examinations of the historical and contemporary patterns of women's and men's involvement in crime; as well as biological, psychological, and social science perspectives on gender, sex, and criminal activity. -- copied from publisher's site (Full text) Service = Oxford University Press

The Oxford Handbook of Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice presents a compilation of critical reviews of knowledge about causes of delinquency and their significance for justice policy, and about developments in the juvenile justice system to prevent and control youth crime. -- copied from publisher's site (Full text) Service = Oxford University Press

This handbook explores organized crime, which it divides into two main concepts and types: the first is a set of stable organizations illegal per se or whose members systematically engage in crime, and the second is a set of serious criminal activities that are typically carried out for monetary gain. -- copied from publisher's site (Full text) Service = Oxford University Press

This handbook shows how local police organizations in the United States have been the focus of reform efforts... -- copied from publisher's site (Full text) Service = Oxford University Press

This book examines the intertwined and multi-layered fields of American sentencing and corrections from global and historical viewpoints, from theoretical and policy perspectives, and with close attention to many problem-specific arenas. -- copied from publisher's site (Full text) Service = Oxford University Press