For example , banks , warehouses , truck driving companies , collection agencies , bookkeepers , ticket - takers , and vendors may require a bond before the employee will be allowed to work . The purpose of a bond is to protect the ...
Cohn 45 studied 175 presentence reports of probation officers from one court during 1952 in an attempt to discover the criteria ... ( d ) Race . — Cohn 50 found that blacks were more likely than whites to receive recommendations for ...
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...
This volume offers first-hand accounts of women's experience with crime and victimization and gives an inside view on how female law-breaking behavior overlaps with victimization in some cases, and how law breaking is a rational choice in ...
Penology: The Evolution of Corrections in America
This text focuses on all forms of corrections and correctional facilities outside of jails and prisons, from traditional incarceration programmes to the most current programms of the late 1990s such...
An anthology of ethnographic or field accounts of crime and criminals, selected to give students unique perspectives on gang members, burglars, addicts, rapists, and white-collar offenders. These criminals discuss their...