A new approach to making everyday criminal justice terms accessible
A useful reference work for faculty and students, criminal justice professionals, writers, and anyone else interested in criminal justice and criminology, The Concise Dictionary of Crime and Justice, Second Edition, is an excellent, wide-ranging resource with clear definitions for over 3, 000 key criminal justice terms. Often going beyond simply definitions, the dictionary places the entries in a meaningful context, connecting the definitions with other concepts. The dictionary uniquely presents common misperceptions for selected terms, along with additional relevant information to clarify a term’s use or derivation.
Table of Content
A. abduction—avulsion
B. baby boom—bystander
C. Cabrini-Green—cycle of violence
D. dactylography—dysfunctional family
E. Eastern State Penitentiary—eyewitness testimony
F. facial composite—furlough
G. Gacy, John Wayne—Guzik, Jake
H. habeas corpus—hypothalamic region
I. ICPSR—Ivins, Bruce
J. jack roller—juvenile transfer
K. K-9—Ku Klux Klan
L. labeling—lynching
M. Mac Donald, Jeffrey—mystery
N. naive check forger—Nuremberg War Crime Trials
O. obedience to authority—overkill
P. paddy wagon—pyromaniac
Q. Quantico, VA—qui tam suit
R. Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network—rust belt
S. sabotage—systematic review
T. taboo—typology
U. UCR—uxoricide
V. vagrancy—voyeurism
W. waiver—wrongful prosecution
X. XYY chromosome
Y. Yakuza—youth service bureau
Z. Zapruder film—zoophilia
About the author
Mark S. Davis is an independent scholar whose work focuses on crime and justice. His scholarship has appeared in journals, such as Journal of Research and Adolescence, Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, and Journal of Criminal Justice, among other journals. Dr. Davis earned his Ph.D. in sociology from Ohio State.
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