Justice Scholar's Reading List

What follows is a list of texts that attempts to exemplify the entire breadth of the field.  Most of the texts here were prepared by the criminal justice faculty at the University of Southern Mississippi for their Graduate Reading List.  Please send the editor your comments and suggestions for additions and deletions. 


POLICY


 

Public Policy, Crime, and Criminal Justice
by Barry W. Hancock, Paul M. Sharp
 


Sense and Nonsense about Crime : A Policy Guide 
by Samuel Walker. 
 


ETHICS


Enforcing Ethics: A Scenario-Based Workbook for Police
and Corrections Recruits
by Debbie J. Goodman
 


RESEARCH AND STATISTICS


Statistical Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice
by Ronet Bachman, Raymond Paternoster
 


Essentials of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research: Explanations and Exercises

by James R. Lasley
 


Quasi-experimentation : Design & Analysis Issues for Field Settings
by Thomas D. Cook, Donald T. Campbell

 


Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology
by Dean J. Champion
 


Voices from the Field: Readings in Criminal Justice Research Methods
by Carl E. Pope, Rick Lovell, Stephen G. Brandl Rickie Lovell
 


Language of Research in Criminal Justice, The: A Reader
by Pamela Tontodonato (Editor), Frank E. Hagan (Editor)
 


Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology
by Michael G. Maxfield, Earl R. Babbie
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LAW ENFORCEMENT


What Works in Policing?: Operations and Administration Examined 
edited by Gary W. Cordner, Donna C. Hale. 
 

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ISBN: 0870840150


 Police Operations : Analysis and Evaluations
by Gary W. Cordner, Larry K. Gaines, Victor E. Kappeler
 

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ISBN: 0870841181 


Problem-oriented Policing
by Herman Goldstein
 


Community policing: A Contemporary Perspective
by Robert Trojanowicz, Bonnie Bucqueroux.
 


Police Vehicles and Firearms: Instruments of Deadly Force
Geoffrey P. Alpert, Lorie A. Fridell. 
 


Policing Urban America
Geoffrey P. Alpert and Roger G. Dunham.
 


Critical Issues in Police Civil Liability
Victor E. Kappeler.

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ISBN: 0881339288 


Police Work: The Social Organization of Policing
Peter K. Manning
 


Stress Management in Law Enforcement
by Leonard Territo, James D. Sewell 
 


Stress Management for Law Enforcement Officers
by Wayne Anderson, David Swenson, Daniel Clay
 


Controversial Issues in Policing
by James D. Sewell,  Steven A. Egger
 


Above the Law : Police and the Excessive Use of Force
Jerome H. Skolnick, James J. Fyfe.
 


Policing Perspectives : An Anthology
by Larry K. Gaines (Editor), Gary W. Cordner (Editor)
 


The Idea of Police
by Carl B. Klockars
 


Danger, Duty, and Disillusion: The Worldview of Los Angeles Police Officers
Joan C. Barker. 
 


Critical Issues in Policing: Contemporary Readings
Roger G. Dunham, Geoffrey P. Alpert.

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ISBN: 0881339474


Briefs of Leading Cases in Law Enforcement
by Rolando V. Del Carmen, Jeffery T. Walker
 


Fixing Broken Windows : Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities
George L. Kelling, Catherine M. Coles; foreword by James Q. Wilson. 
 


ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT


Police Administration 
by Gary W. Cordner, Robert Sheehan
 


Bureaucracy : What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It
by James Q. Wilson.
 


Putting Total Quality Management to Work :
What TQM Means, How to Use It & How to Sustain It over the Long Run

by Marshall Sashkin, Kenneth J. Kiser
 


Criminal Justice Organizations: Administration and Management
by John Klofas, Stan Stojkovic, David Kalinich
 


Governing Prisons: A Comparative Study of
Correctional Management

by John J. Diiulio
 


Police Administration and Management
by Sam Souryal
 

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ISBN: 0829901418


 Managing in Turbulent Times
by Peter Ferdinand Drucker
 


The Administration and Management of Criminal Justice Organizations: A Book of Readings 
edited by Stan Stojkovic, John Klofas, David Kalinich.
 


Classic Readings in Organizational Behavior
by J. Steven Ott (Editor)
 


The Frontiers of Management : Where Tomorrow's Decisions Are Being Shaped Today
by Peter Ferdinand Drucker
 


Managing for the future: The 1990s and Beyond
by Peter F. Drucker.
 


CRIMINOLOGY AND THEORY


Control Balance: Toward a General Theory of Deviance
by Charles R. Tittle
 


Crime and Human Nature 
James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein
 



White Collar Crime: The Uncut Version
Edwin H. Sutherland 
 


Criminological Theory : Past to Present: Essential Readings
by Francis T. Cullen , Robert Agnew (Editors)
 

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ISBN: 0935732918


Social Deviance and Crime : An Organizational and Theoretical Approach
by Charles R. Tittle, Raymond Paternoster
 


Primer on Crime and Delinquency Theory
by Robert M. Bohm 
 


The Professional Thief, By a Professional Thief
 by Edwin H. Sutherland.
 


A General Theory of Crime
Michael R. Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi.
 


Theoretical Criminology (4th)
by George B. Vold and Thomas J. Bernard.

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ISBN: 019507321


Classics of Criminology 
edited by Joseph E. Jacoby.
 


Criminological Theories:
Introduction, Evaluation, and Application (3rd Edition)

by Ronald L. Akers
 


Criminological Theory 
 by Marilyn McShane, Frank P. Williams III.
 


Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance. 
by Howard Saul Becker 
 


The Criminal Elite: The Sociology of White Collar Crime
James W. Coleman.

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ISBN: 031213763X


Crime and Everyday Life
by Marcus Felson

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ISBN: 0803990979 


Thinking about Crime
by James Q. Wilson
 


The Real War on Crime : The Report of the
National Criminal Justice Commission

Steven R. Donziger (Ed)
 


CORRECTIONS


Briefs of Leading Cases in Corrections
Rolando V. del Carmen, Susan E. Ritter, Betsy A. Witt.
 


Governing Prisons: A Comparative Study of
Correctional Management

by John J. Diiulio
 


The Society of Captives
by Gresham M. Sykes
 


Crime and Punishment in American History
Lawrence Friedman.
 


EDITOR'S PICKS


Informants: Development and Management
by Stephen L. Mallory
 

 


Down on Parchman Farm: The Great Prison in the Mississippi Delta
by William Banks Taylor, Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
 


Crime and Campus Police: A Handbook for Police Officers and Administrators
by Michael Clay Smith
 


Death at Midnight : The Confession of an Executioner
by Donald A. Cabana
 


Crime and Everyday Life
by Marcus Felson
 

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ISBN: 0803990979 


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