Crime

COMING SOON

Today’s Crime and Punishment Issues

Democrats and Republicans

ANGELA D. MADDEN, EDITOR

ABC-CLIO

July 2023, 335pp, 7x10 Hardcover: 978-1-4408-7332-4 $97.00, £72.00, €84,00 eBook: 978-1-4408-7333-1

An indispensable resource for understanding how politics impacts the U.S. justice system, this book illuminates Republican and Democratic responses and attitudes toward crime, police work, sentencing, incarceration, and rehabilitation.

FEATURES

• Provides readers with an understanding of how politics impacts the criminal justice system and treatment of law violators • Provides an overview of how

Republicans and Democrats differ with respect to their views on criminalizing acts and responding to law violators • Describes how Republicans and

Democrats have been similar in some legislative responses across time

ANGELA D. MADDEN has been the director of Themis Center for Justice Policy, Practice & Research since 2003.

COMING SOON

Capital Punishment

A Documentary and Reference Guide

DAVID L. HUDSON JR.

Greenwood

February 2023, 310pp, 8 1/2x11 Hardcover: 978-1-4408-7577-9 $111.00, £83.00, €96,00 eBook: 978-1-4408-7578-6

Each primary source in this essential collection on capital punishment features an authoritative introduction and analysis that helps provide crucial context for understanding the evolution of law and public attitudes toward the death penalty from colonial times to the present.

FEATURES

• Provides a detailed overview of the history of—and controversies about—capital punishment in the

United States • Offers a unique mix of government documentation, court cases, and political/social advocacy perspectives • Expert commentary supplies context to primary documents on capital punishment • Readers Guide to Related Documents organizes all featured primary sources by theme for researchers

DAVID L. HUDSON JR. is an award-winning professor at Belmont University College of Law, where he teaches constitutional law and First Amendment law.

NEW

The Federal Bureau of Investigation

History, Powers, and Controversies of the FBI

2 VOLUMES

DOUGLAS M. CHARLES AND AARON J. STOCKHAM, EDITORS

ABC-CLIO

May 2022, 674pp, 7x10 Hardcover: 978-1-4408-7160-3 $204.00, £152.00, €176,00 eBook: 978-1-4408-7161-0

This authoritative set provides a one-stop resource for understanding specific FBI controversies as well as those looking to understand the full history, law enforcement authority, and inner workings of the nation’s most famous and important federal law enforcement agency.

FEATURES

• Scholarly introduction that places the

FBI and its operations in broad law enforcement context • Authoritative entries that cover all aspects of FBI operations and history

DOUGLAS M. CHARLES is professor of history at Penn State Greater Allegheny. AARON J. STOCKHAM is a history teacher at the Waterford School with a PhD in American history from Marquette University.