Crime & Deviance: Encyclopedias

Aims to provide a comprehensive, authoritative review of both traditional and contemporary topics, including theoretical concerns as well as the practicalities of causes, cures, and the justice system.

Offers historical perspectives, current analysis, and future outlooks. Coverage includes individuals noted for their work with prisons; facilities renowned for setting precedents; current policy, procedure, and program-oriented descriptions; and current prison issues. Specific topics include the handling of convicts with AIDS, corporal punishment, juvenile delinquents behind bars, boot camps, life without parole, racial conflict, and sexual exploitation.

An interdisciplinary source that addresses not only law but also sociology, psychology, history and economics.

Examines all aspects of the world of cybercrime. Articles address key areas of concern and specifically those having to with terminology, definitions and social constructs of crime, national infrastructure security vulnerabilities and capabilities, types of attacks to computers and information systems, and computer abusers and cybercriminals.

Sifakis reveals what the Mafia is, its role in organized crime, and its principal players, past and present.