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Criminal Justice Theory, Second Edition is the first and only text, edited by U.S. criminal justice educators, on the theoretical foundations of criminal justice, not criminological theory. This new edition includes entirely new chapters as well as revisions to all others, with an eye to accessibility and coherence for upper division undergraduate and beginning graduate students in the field.

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Stott and his coauthors report on findings from their study of the police response to protests in Hong Kong. Their analysis is based on the Elaborated Social Identity Model (ESIM), a powerful framework for understanding the dynamic interplay between protesters and police. They find that by responding in an overly forceful and indiscriminate manner, the police triggered psychological changes among protesters that intensified these events and led to greater levels of disorder. In this reaction essay, I comment on the findings of Stott and his coauthors. I also note how the coercive policing practices used by Hong Kong's police during the protests harm their relationships with the public, diminish the perceived legitimacy of the police, and undermine human rights.

"The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Policing, Communication, and Society brings together well-regarded academics and experienced practitioners to explore how communication intersects with policing in areas such as cop-culture, race and ethnicity, terrorism and hate crimes, social media, police reform, crowd violence, and many more"--

AbstractDrawing on the social development model, the authors examine family risk and protective factors thought to influence problem behaviors among adolescents. They estimate the impact of family risk and protective factors on a variety of antisocial and health risk behaviors. Data are drawn from a sample of nearly 2,500 adolescents attending high‐risk schools in Trinidad and Tobago, a developing nation in the eastern Caribbean. The findings show that certain family risk factors play a more consistent role in shaping adolescent problem behaviors than others. In particular, adult history of antisocial behavior and parental attitudes favorable toward antisocial behavior and substance use emerge as the most robust risk factors. In accordance with previous research, family protective factors exerted only a minimal influence on behavioral outcomes. This finding confirms the need for additional theory and research on the protective factors that help reduce problem behavior among adolescents, particularly in developing nations.

Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing: The Evidencedoes a terrific job of discussing the limited research on trends in the policing industry, but what it does not include is perhaps as informative. Large gaps in the body of research limit our ability to make definitive inferences about how the policing industry is changing. These gaps result in part from a lack of systematic, standardized, longitudinal data collection and analysis on the nature and outputs of police organizations in the United States. As a result, we know little about basic descriptive features of policing and how these features are changing over time. Lacking the ability to track even the most basic descriptive trends, the police research industry is at even more of a loss in developing careful empirical explanations of these trends. This article discusses some of these trends, summarizes what we know and what we do not know about them, and provides some recommendations for how the police research industry can do a better job of describing and explaining trends in the police industry.

Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing: The Evidence does a terrific job of discussing the limited research on trends in the policing industry, but what it does not include is perhaps as informative. Large gaps in the body of research limit our ability to make definitive inferences about how the policing industry is changing. These gaps result in part from a lack of systematic, standardized, longitudinal data collection & analysis on the nature & outputs of police organizations in the United States. As a result, we know little about basic descriptive features of policing & how these features are changing over time. Lacking the ability to track even the most basic descriptive trends, the police research industry is at even more of a loss in developing careful empirical explanations of these trends. This article discusses some of these trends, summarizes what we know & what we do not know about them, & provides some recommendations for how the police research industry can do a better job of describing & explaining trends in the police industry. 95 References. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2004.]

Homicide in Context. Murderous Thoughts / Helen Innes, Sarah Tucker, Martin Innes -- Geographic and Temporal Variation in Cross-National Homicide Victimization Rates / Meghan L Rogers, William Alex Pridemore -- Some Trends in Homicide and Its Age-Crime Curves / Alfred Blumstein -- Social and Legal Responses to Homicide / Mark Cooney -- Understanding Different Forms of Homicide. Gang Homicide in the United States / Jesenia M Pizarro -- Drug-Related Homicide / Sean P Varano, Joseph B Kuhns -- Sexual Homicide / Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan -- When Women are Murdered / R Emerson Dobash, Russell P Dobash -- Women Murdered in the Name of "Honor" / Aisha K Gill -- Hate and Homicide / Nathan Hall -- Infanticide / Carl P Malmquist -- Parricide Encapsulated / Kathleen M Heide -- Corporate Homicide, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Human Rights / Gary Slapper -- Empirical Challenges to Studying Terrorism and Homicide / Joseph K Young, Erin M Kearns -- Multiple Homicide / Jack Levin, James Alan Fox -- Genocide and State-Sponsored Killing / Andy Aydın-Aitchison -- Homicide around the Globe. Homicide in Europe / Marieke Liem -- Comparing Characteristics of Homicides in Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden / Soenita M Ganpat -- Homicide in Britain / Fiona Brookman, Helen Jones, Sophie Pike -- Homicide in Canada / Myrna Dawson -- Typifying American Exceptionalism / Amanda L Robinson, Christopher D Maxwell -- Homicide in Japan / Tom Ellis, Koichi Hamai -- Homicide in Australia and New Zealand / Paul Mazerolle, Li Eriksson, Richard Wortley, Holly Johnson -- Drivers of Homicide in Latin America and the Caribbean / Erik Alda -- Homicide in Russia / Alexandra Lysova, Nikolay Shchitov -- Understanding Homicide in China / Liqun Cao -- Homicide in India / K Jaishankar, Debarati Halder -- Homicide in South Africa / Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard -- Investigating Homicide. Technology and Homicide Investigation / Patrick Q Brady, William R King -- Solving Homicides / Thomas S Alexander, Charles F Wellford -- Using DNA in the Investigation of Homicide / Robin Williams -- Cold Case Homicide Reviews / Cheryl Allsop -- A Damning Cascade of Investigative Errors / Deborah Davis, Richard A Leo -- Reducing and Preventing Homicide. Seeing and Treating Violence as a Health Issue / Charles Ransford, Gary Slutkin -- Identifying and Intervening in Homicide Networks / Andrew M Fox, Olivia R Allen -- Focused Deterrence and the Reduction of Gang Homicide / Anthony A Braga -- From Theory to Practice / Eric Grommon, John D McCluskey, Timothy S Bynum -- Preventing Homicide / Edward R Maguire.

This article discusses a timely and recent domain of intergroup relations scholarship that focuses on communication between police and the public—a domain we have previously described as intergroup par excellence. We begin with a brief overview of research on this topic, and then introduce four interrelated areas of research that illustrate the diversity and relevance of this approach: policing and stereotyping, communication accommodation (and nonaccommodation) by police officials, intergroup contact and communication interventions that seek to improve relations between the police and the public, and the role of intergroup communication in translating scientific evidence into police policy and practice. Finally, we provide a critical research agenda that includes an integrated model of intergroup communication and policing.