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Where are the criminal justice books?
Most books about criminal justice are located on the third floor of the Carothers Library in the HV and KF call number ranges.
HV - Crime, Cybercrime, Family Violence, Gangs, Sex Offenders
KF - Criminal Courts, Trials (Murder)
Selected Books from URI's Catalog
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Constitutional Law and Criminal Justice
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 1003179371Publication Date: 2022This book gives an overview of the most important issues regarding the US Constitution and its application in the criminal justice system and is designed to be used in undergraduate courses in criminal justice and justice administration programs in universities and community colleges. -
Criminal Law: Historical, Ethical, and Moral Foundations
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781032256016Publication Date: 2023This book fosters discussions of controversial issues and delivers abridged case law decisions that target the essence of appellate rulings. -
Ending Mass Incarceration
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 0197536573Publication Date: 2022This book explores why mass incarceration is a failed public safety strategy and what should be done to bring about truly transformative change. It identifies three key dynamics that are bolstering mass incarceration, as well as three broad changes that would limit the power and reach of the criminal legal system while also addressing the social problems to which it is a misguided response. -
Ethics and Accountability in Criminal Justice : Towards a Universal Standard
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Call Number: ebookPublication Date: 2021This book is designed to meet head on the urgent need for academics, advocates and policymakers to develop universal ethical standards in criminal justice practice. -
What Are Prisons For?
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 1529226910Publication Date: 2024In this book, Bhui argues that we need to look at who is sent to prison and why to disentangle reality from ideology and myth. Including the voices of prisoners, prison staff and victims, he asks whether prison is an institution for managing marginalized people, or if there is a better way to achieve the socially useful goals of prisons.
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Criminality in Context : the Psychological Foundations of Criminal Justice Reform
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781433832130Publication Date: 2020This book offers a carefully framed and psychologically based blueprint for making the criminal justice system fairer, with strategies to reduce crime through proactive prevention instead of reactive punishment. -
Probation, Mental Health and Criminal Justice: Towards Equivalence
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781032044927Publication Date: 2023This collection of research and evaluation explores issues in mental health and probation across the globe. -
The Psychology of Criminal Conduct
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Call Number: HV6080 .A667 2024ISBN: 9781032272832Publication Date: 2024This book provides a psychological and evidence-informed perspective of criminal behavior. Drawing upon the General Personality and Cognitive Social Learning theory, it discusses eight major risk/need factors of criminal conduct, examines the prediction and classification of criminal behavior along with prevention and rehabilitation, and summarizes the major issues in understanding criminal conduct. -
Practical Psychology for Policing
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781447325925Publication Date: 2023This book suggests how new ways of applying psychological knowledge and research can be of benefit in a range of policing contexts, for example, beat patrols, preventing crime and using the self-selection policing approach to uncover serious criminality from less serious offences. -
Exploring Developmental Trauma Disorder Among Offending Populations : In Pursuit of Healing and Justice
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9783031611575Publication Date: 2024This book aims to shed light on the prevalence and effects of developmental trauma among offending populations’ emotional, cognitive, and social development by discussing the complex interplay between developmental trauma and criminal behavior.
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Perilous Policing
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 0429676034Publication Date: 2019This book provides a much-needed interrogatory to law enforcement practices and policies as they continue to evolve during this era of uncertainty and anxiety. It discusses topics such as the police and marginalized populations, the use of technology to surveil individuals and groups, the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement and the erosion of the police narrative, the use of force (particularly deadly force) against people of color, the role of the police in immigration enforcement, the "war on cops," and police militarization. -
Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 0691194335Publication Date: 2020This book draws needed attention to the injustices that are perpetuated by the attorney-client relationship in today’s criminal courts, and describes the reforms needed to correct them. -
Race, Ethnicity and Law
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 1787149919Publication Date: 2017This book addresses issues of race and ethnicity within the law and law-related phenomena by examining racial and ethnic disparities in sentencing and punishment; the continued problematic nature of the African American experience within the US system; the criminalization of immigrants; racial inequities in the administration of drug laws; and the racial disparities that affect juvenile justice. -
Racial Profiling: Everyday Inequality
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 1512439207Publication Date: 2017This book examines racial profiling in the criminal justice system through a combination of research on modern day injustices and the historical roots of racial inequality, as well as personal stories. -
Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice
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Call Number: HV6191 .R438 2023ISBN: 0309693373Publication Date: 2023This book synthesizes the evidence on community-based solutions, noncriminal policy interventions, and criminal justice reforms, charting a path toward the reduction of racial inequalities by minimizing harm in ways that also improve community safety.
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Gender, Crime and Justice
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Call Number: Carothers Library Stacks HV6250.4.W65 S43 2022ISBN: 9783030874872Publication Date: 2022This textbook takes a gender inclusive and intersectional feminist approach to examining key topics related to gender, crime and justice. It addresses issues such as interpersonal and sexual violence, sex work and the night-time economy, street crime, crimes of the powerful, policing and the courts, prison and community penalties, and extreme punishment and abolitionist futures. -
Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 1317221419Publication Date: 2018This book examines the relationship between gender and crime and explores both the gendered nature of crime alongside the gendered nature of criminal victimization. -
Gender, Homicide, and the Politics of Responsibility: Fatal Relationships
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 1000470822Publication Date: 2022This book explores themes of responsibility for violence, and the social and legal consequences that men and women uniquely or differently encounter. -
Caged Women
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781138297395Publication Date: 2018This book discusses media representations and the social justice issues for female inmates. The chapters address myriad issues including cultural representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality; social justice issues for transgender inmates; racial dynamics within female prisons; gender and female prison structures/policies; treatment of women in prison; re-incarcerated and previously incarcerated women; self and identity; gender, race, and sentencing; and reproduction and parenting for female inmates. -
Tainted Witness
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 0231543441Publication Date: 2017This book examines how gender, race, and doubt stick to women witnesses as their testimony circulates in search of an adequate witness.
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Cybercrime and Digital Forensics
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780429343223Publication Date: 2022This book offers a comprehensive and integrative introduction to cybercrime. It provides an authoritative synthesis of the disparate literature on the various types of cybercrime, the global investigation and detection of cybercrime and the role of digital information, and the wider role of technology as a facilitator for social relationships between deviants and criminals. -
Cyber Law and Ethics
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 1003027784Publication Date: 2022This textbook introduces business, policy and ethical considerations raised by our use of information technology. It discuses topics such as social media, online privacy, artificial intelligence and cybercrime as well as emerging themes such as doxing, ransomware, revenge porn, data-mining, e-sports and fake news. -
Artificial intelligence and international human rights law : developing standards for a changing world
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781035337934Publication Date: 2024This book explores how international organizations have addressed the actual and potential human rights issues caused by AI technologies. It highlights the need to establish effective oversight systems and adaptable remedies to protect human rights as AI continues to develop. -
Combatting Cyber Terrorism
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 1787785211Publication Date: 2024This book recounts case studies to show the types of threats we face and provides a comprehensive coverage of risk management tactics and strategies to protect yourself against such nefarious threat actors. These include key mitigation and controls for information security or security and HR-related professionals. -
Cyber Victimology
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 1351651730Publication Date: 2022This book shows how the effects of cyber victimization in one sector can affect others. This book also highlights why the perpetrators chose to attack their victim/s in specific ways to create larger harm in unexpected ways.
