Policing: The Essentials responds to a need for a more concise presentation of policing. It covers the essential materials for understanding the history, development, and current operations of policing in an understandable, non-complex discussion of the topics.

Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Eleventh Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance. This edition examines the entire gamut of prevention, from physical design to developmental prevention to identifying high-risk individuals to situational initiatives to partnerships and beyond. Strategies include primary prevention measures designed to prevent ...

Victimology, Tenth Edition, covers the scope of crime victims’ suffering in the US, offering a history of victims and the measurement of victimization, an explanation of the victim’s role in the criminal justice process, and a recounting of the issues crime victims face as a result of crime and involvement in the criminal justice process. Doerner and Lab, both well-regarded scholars, write compellingly about how the current criminal’s justice system can be transformed into a victi...

Juvenile Justice: An Introduction, Tenth Edition, presents a comprehensive picture of juvenile offending, delinquency theories, and the ways juvenile justice actors and agencies react to delinquency. Whitehead and Lab offer evidence-based suggestions for successful interventions and treatment and examine the prospects for rebalancing the model of juvenile court.This new edition includes insightful analysis and the latest available statistics on juvenile crime and victimiza...

Juvenile Justice: An Introduction, Eleventh Edition, presents a comprehensive picture of juvenile offending, delinquency theories, and the ways juvenile justice actors and agencies react to delinquency. Whitehead, Lab, and Rocheleau offer evidence-based suggestions for successful interventions and treatment and examine the prospects for rebalancing the model of juvenile court. This new edition includes insightful analysis and the latest available statistics on juvenile crime and v...

The seal weakens. The Arcanus stirs.Elrith and his companions race to recover the final Element Artifacts, the only hope of sealing the Nexus and halting Soleena’s ascent into godlike tyranny. From cursed islands and collapsing sanctuaries to a volcano shrouded in ash and fire, their path is riddled with sacrifice and ancient magic.Driven by ambition, Soleena will stop at nothing—twisting lives, wielding forbidden magics, and casting aside allies in her search for the Chron...

Cutting a thorn is no good if you do not pull up the root.Elrith and his allies may have shattered Soleena’s plans once, but the sorceress is far from defeated. With the Shadow Codex destroyed, she will stop at nothing to claim the Nexus of Arcanus and reshape the world in her image. Fortified by the hushed promises of those who still serve her, in the darkness of her sanctuary, she has found the first thread of a new path, one paved with ancient artifacts and forbidden magic—one t...

In an ancient estate, a mysterious sorceress performs a necrotic rite to uncover forbidden knowledge. She’s paid for this knowledge in blood—and she’ll pay again to gain the dominance she craves. Above, young wizard Elrith enjoys the sights of a bustling city, unaware of the threat lurking below. But when he discovers his mentor missing, Elrith takes his first step into darkness, caught in the necromancer’s terrible web.So begins Elrith’s journey to expose the sorceress Soleena’s s...

You know how it can get when a relationship turns sour. Women want to talk things through. Men want to walk away and ignore the problem.By explaining that it is the fundamental differences between men and women that can make relationships so hard, authors Patricia Love and Steven Stosny reveal that the key to a great relationship is rediscovering and maintaining the spark that brought you and your partner together. By following their groundbreaking techniques you will learn how to ...