The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment

The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment provides the most comprehensive reference for a vast number of topics relevant to crime and punishment with a unique focus on the multi/interdisciplinary and international aspects of these topics and historical perspectives on crime and punishment around the world.

• Named as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles of 2016
• Comprising nearly 300 entries, this invaluable reference resource serves as the most up-to-date and wide-ranging resource on crime and punishment
• Offers a global perspective from an international team of leading scholars, including coverage of the strong and rapidly growing body of work on criminology in Europe, Asia, and other areas
• Acknowledges the overlap of criminology and criminal justice with a number of disciplines such as sociology, psychology, epidemiology, history, economics, and public health, and law
• Entry topics are organized around 12 core substantive areas: international aspects, multi/interdisciplinary aspects, crime types, corrections, policing, law and justice, research methods, criminological theory, correlates of crime, organizations and institutions (U.S.), victimology, and special populations
• Organized, authored and Edited by leading scholars, all of whom come to the project with exemplary track records and international standing

3 Volumes
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Volume I

About the Editors vii

Notes on Contributors ix

Lexicon xliii

Introduction xlvii

Acknowledgments xlix

Crime and Punishment A–C 1

Volume II

Crime and Punishment D–N 467

Volume III

Crime and Punishment O–Z 913

Index 1319

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