The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment serves as the most up-to-date and comprehensive resource on crime and punishment. The editors have included nearly 300 entries on a myriad of topics in the areas of crime types, corrections, policing, law and justice, research methods, criminological theory, correlates of crime, organizations and institutions (U.S.), victimology, and special populations.
Acknowledging the overlap of criminology and criminal justice with a number of disciplines such as sociology, psychology, epidemiology, history, economics, and public health, and law every entry addresses multi/interdisciplinary and international aspects of study and offers historical perspectives on crime and punishment around the world.
Written with clarity and accessibility in mind for students and professionals alike, this reference work offers a go-to scholarly place to quickly educate oneself on familiar and unfamiliar topics in the criminological and criminal justice literature.
