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Databases

• NCJRS Abstracts
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Relevant Sociology Descriptors

• correctional system
• offenders
• punishment rehabilitation relationship
• prison culture
• prisoners
• prisons

Web Sites

• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Bureau of Justice Statistics: Prison Statistics
• Crime in the United States, 2007
• Federal Bureau of Prisons
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics

SUNYIT Books on Corrections & Criminology

• Biological influences on criminal behavior
• Black rage in the American prison system
• Capital punishment: a balanced examination
• Career criminals in society
• Changing lives: delinquency prevention as crime-control policy
• Class, race, gender, and crime: the social realities of justice in America
• Crime and nature
• Criminal conduct and substance abuse treatment for adolescents
• Criminal elite: understanding white-collar crime
• Criminological theories: introduction, evaluation, and application
• Criminological theory: context and consequences
• Debating the death penalty: should America have capital punishment?
• Desisting from crime: continuity and change in long-term crime patterns of serious chronic offenders
• Development of persistent criminality
• Developmental criminology and its discontents: trajectories of crime from childhood to old age
• Dishonest dollars: the dynamics of white-collar crime
• Doing justice, doing gender: women in legal and criminal justice occupations
• Double jeopardy: adolescent offenders with mental disorders
• Ethical considerations for research involving prisoners
• Girls in trouble with the law
• Girls, women, and crime: selected readings
• Great American crime decline
• Hidden victims: the effects of the death penalty on families of the accused
• Imprisoning America: the social effects of mass incarceration
• In the shadow of death: restorative justice and death row families
• Ironies of imprisonment
• Judging children as children: a proposal for a juvenile justice system
• Judging juveniles: prosecuting adolescents in adult and juvenile courts
• Juvenile justice: process and systems
• Juvenile sex offender
• Life without parole: living in prison today
• Litigating in the shadow of death: defense attorneys in capital cases
• Locked out: felon disenfranchisement and American democracy
• Lying, cheating, and stealing: a moral theory of white-collar crime
• Minding justice: laws that deprive people with mental disability of life and liberty
• Penal systems: a comparative approach
• Prison, inc.: a convict exposes life inside a private prison
• Prison race
• Prison religion: faith-based reform and the constitution
• Prisoner reentry and crime in America
• Punishment: a comparative historical perspective
• Punishment and culture
• Race and juvenile justice
• Researching theories of crime and deviance
• Rich get richer and the poor get prison: ideology, class, and criminal justice
• Saving children from a life of crime: early risk factors and effective interventions
• Sex offending: causal theories to inform research, prevention, and treatment
• Thinking about crime: sense and sensibility in American penal culture
• Understanding criminal justice: sociological perspectives
• Youth crime and youth justice: comparative and cross-national perspectives

Citation Information

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• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association: Ready Ref BF 76.7 .P83 2010
  

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