Books from Roxbury Publishing Company

  • Families in Context: An Introduction
    Families in Context: An Introduction
    By Marilyn Ihinger-Tallman, Teresa M. Cooney

    The text provides a "hands-on" approach by featuring critical-thinking activities at the end of each chapter, enabling students to apply learned concepts and principles.

  • The Juvenile Justice System: Law and Process
    The Juvenile Justice System: Law and Process
    By Joseph B. Sanborn, Anthony W. Salerno

    Juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice are two essential topics in the criminal justice curriculum. Sanborn and Salerno's The Juvenile Justice System: Law And Process is dedicated solely to explaining juvenile...

  • Images of Color, Images of Crime: Readings
    Images of Color, Images of Crime: Readings
    By Nancy Rodriguez, Coramae Richey Mann, Marjorie Sue Zatz

    This edited volume explores the dynamics of race, crime, and the criminal justice system in the United States today. The book gives equal attention to the links between images of...

  • Making Connections: Readings in Relational Communication
    Making Connections: Readings in Relational Communication
    By Pamela J. Cooper, Kathleen M. Galvin

    Edited by Kathleen M. Galvin, the volume includes diverse selections from the recent work of top communication scholars and teachers, offering a balance between humanistic and social-science perspectives.

  • The Public Speaker/the Public Listener
    The Public Speaker/the Public Listener
    By Darlyn R. Wolvin, Roy M. Berko, Andrew D. Wolvin

    The Second Edition of Wolvin, Berko, and Wolvin's popular text offers students a look at the total public communication process--public speaking and public listening--emphasizing how these two dimensions interrelate as...

  • Crime Profiles: The Anatomy of Dangerous Persons, Places, and Situations
    Crime Profiles: The Anatomy of Dangerous Persons, Places, and Situations
    By Terance D. Miethe, Richard C. McCorkle

    Each chapter focuses on crime definitions, trends in their occurrence, the offender and victim profiles, and more.

  • Exploring Human Communication
    Exploring Human Communication
    By Matthew J. Smith, Sue DeWine, Melissa K. Gibson

    Exploring Human Communication

  • Serious Delinquency: An Anthology
    Serious Delinquency: An Anthology
    By Thomas J. Bernard

    "Serious Delinquency" features a survey approach to the major issues in delinquency and the juvenile justice system. Topics include patters of offending and victimization, predictors, theoretically driven correlates, and a...

  • Demystifying Crime and Criminal Justice
    Demystifying Crime and Criminal Justice
    By Jeffery T. Walker, Robert M. Bohm

    This is followed by ?Interests Served by the Myth,? which illuminates how the interests of specific individuals or groups are promoted by the creation and perpetuation of the myth or myths.

  • In Their Own Words: Criminals on Crime
    In Their Own Words: Criminals on Crime
    By Paul F. Cromwell

    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...

  • Making Connections: Readings in Relational Communication
    Making Connections: Readings in Relational Communication
    By Kathleen M. Galvin

    Making Connections: Readings in Relational Communication