This interesting and readable book covers a broad range of perspectives on various topics and issues critical to the American criminal justice system. It contains readings from many sources, as well as historical and philosophical approaches to understanding the complexities confronting the field of criminal justice today. The selected readings are organized under four major topical areas: Crime and Justice in America; The Police in America; Adjudication and Sentencing; and Jails, Prisons, and Community-based Corrections. For individuals working within—or simply interested in— the American criminal justice system.

Crime and Justice in America--A Reader: Present Realities and Future Prospects (2nd Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Dunham, Roger G.

Palacios, Wilson R.

Cromwell, Paul F.

Social Sciences

Pearson

This contemporary collection of national and international research on drug subcultures situates drug using behavior within an individual's social context so that readers may break through longstanding stereotypes concerning people who consume legal and illegal drugs. The diverse group of contributors employ a qualitative-interpretive research approach to finding answers to why people engage in this common form of deviant and/or criminal behavior. Essays address qualitative research methods and illicit drug use research, pursuing other forms of communication, after the party is over, and the emerging issues of managing drug use and misuse. For those interested in an interpretive analysis of drug use.

Cocktails and Dreams: Perspectives on Drug and Alcohol Use

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

This volume investigates the significant role qualitative research plays in expanding and refining our understandings of crime and justice. It features seventeen original essays that discuss the relationship between methodology and theory. The result is a theoretically engaged volume that explores the approaches of qualitative scholars in the collection and treatment of data in criminological scholarship.
Among the key issues addressed in the volume are methodological rigor in qualitative research; movement between method, theory building, theoretical refinement and expansion; diversity of qualitative methodologies, from classic field research to contemporary innovations; and considerations of the future of qualitative criminological research.
Qualitative research use has expanded rapidly in the last twenty years. This latest volume of Advances in Criminological Theory presents a cogent appraisal of qualitative criminology and the ways in which rigorous qualitative research contributes to theorizing about crime and justice.

Qualitative Research in Criminology: Advances in Criminological Theory

Miller, Jody

Routledge

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