Criminal Justice and Criminology ─ Terms, Concepts, and Cases

According to the concept of in forma pauperis, a financially disabled person does not have to pay court fees in a civil suit. Shield laws protect journalists from being forced to disclose their sources but the term is also used to statutes intended to protect victims of sexual assaults from having their sexual history revealed in court. Here hundreds of definitions of terms related to criminal justice and criminology rub shoulders with descriptions of over 100 cases decided in federal courts, including the US Supreme Court. Many address issues of criminal procedure while others address the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. While designed for use by undergraduate and graduate students in law or criminology, this is also accessible enough to prove useful to interested general readers. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

James F. Anderson is currently a Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at East Carolina University. He received his M.A. in Criminology from Alabama State University and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University. His areas of research interests include police liability, criminal procedure, crime and public health, criminological theory, and legal aspects of criminal justice. He has published several articles and five books. Chief among them are Legal Rights of Prisoners: Cases and Comments and Criminological Theories: Understanding Crime in America. Laronistine Dyson is the Midwest training manager for an internationally based company specializing in banking and mortgages. She received her M.A. in Interpersonal and Public Communication from Bowling Green State University. She has published over twenty-five criminal justice-related articles and five books. Some of her research interests include healthcare's effects on the criminal justice system, prisoners' rights, and criminal procedure. Adam Langsam is Associate Professor of Sociology at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Texas. He also studied at the George J. Beto School of Criminal Justice in Huntsville, Texas. His research interests include corrections, drugs and society, and consensual crime. He is published in the areas of female gangs and child sexual abuse, and is currently involved in a study measuring police morale. Willie Brooks, Jr. is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Houston at Victoria. He received his M.A. in Criminal Justice from Eastern Kentucky University. He is currently a doctoral fellow at Prairie View A&M University in the College of Juvenile Justice and Psychology. He lectures and researches in the areas of juvenile justice, criminological theory, gangs, law enforcement, courts, and criminal procedures. He has published several articles.