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SAGE Reference’s new Key Issues in Crime and Punishment series explores hotly debated Criminal Justice issues

Los Angeles (March 30, 2011) Should assisted suicide be legal? Should violent juvenile offenders be tried as adults? Should hate crimes reap a more severe punishment? From the earliest days of the police as peace-keeping constabularies in England, to dealing with modern-day crimes like Columbine, criminals like Bernie Madoff, and new types of evidence, such as DNA, managing crime and punishment has been hotly debated.

SAGE Reference’s much-needed new series, Key Issues in Crime and Punishment, presents the issues and the answers in five focused books, offering pro/con examinations of controversial programs, practices and issues, all from varied perspectives. Written by eminent scholars and experts, each volume explores a broad range of questions in one of the five main Criminal Justice subfields, covering such issues as:

•  Volume 1 – Crime and Criminal Behavior: age of consent, euthanasia and assisted suicide, gambling, guns, internet pornography, drug laws, religious convictions, and terrorism
• Volume 2 – Police and Law Enforcement: accountability, arrest practices, bounty hunters, entrapment, Miranda warnings, police privatization, profiling, and zero-tolerance policing
• Volume 3 – Courts, Law, and Justice: DNA evidence, double jeopardy, expert witnesses and “hired guns,” insanity defense, plea bargaining, polygraphs, and victims’ rights
• olume 4 – Corrections: capital punishment, early release, gangs and prison violence, healthcare for prisoners, prison labor, prison overcrowding, prison privatization, and religious rights
• Volume 5 – Juvenile Crime and Justice: age of responsibility, boot camps, death penalty for juvenile offenders, gangs, scared-straight programs, and violent juvenile offenders

 

An Introduction by the series editor sets the debate stage for each volume’s approximately 20 chapters, which offer a succinct exploration of the topics covered. Further Readings conclude each chapter, highlighting different approaches to, or perspectives on, the issue at hand.

 

Series Editor William J. Chambliss is Professor of Sociology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. A former president of the American Society of Criminology and the Society for the Study of Social Problems, he has written and researched extensively in the areas of Criminology and Sociology of Law.

 

Key Issues in Crime and Punishment

• June, 2011 350 pages each Print: $80 each Electronic: $100 each Crime and Criminal Behavior Print ISBN: 978-1-4129-7855-2 eISBN: 978-1-4129-9411-8
•  Police and Law Enforcement Print ISBN: 978-1-4129-7859-0 eISBN: 978-1-4129-9409-5
•  Courts, Law, and Justice Print ISBN: 978-1-4129-7857-6 eISBN: 978-1-4129-9412-5
•  Corrections Print ISBN: 978-1-4129-7856-9 eISBN: 978-1-4129-9410-1
•  Juvenile Crime and Justice Print ISBN: 978-1-4129-7858-3 eISBN: 978-1-4129-9413-2

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