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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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, 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...

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...

Have you ever had this conversation with your spouse?Wife: "Honey, we need to talk about us."Husband: "Do we have to?"Drs.Patricia Love and Steven Stosny have studied this all-too-familiardynamic between men and women and have reached a truly shockingconclusion. Even with the best of intentions, talking about yourrelationship doesn't bring you together, and it will eventually driveyou apart.The reason for this is that undern...

Is my relationship worth saving?Will the trust ever come back?How can things be good between us again?Whether broken trust is due to daily dishonesties, a monumental betrayal, or even a history of hurts from the past, it can put a relationship at risk. This is the first book to show you exactly what to do to restore trust in your relationship, regardless of how it was damaged.In this complete guide, couples therapist Mira Kirshenbaum will also help you under...

Discover the truth he wants you to know!The man in your life is keeping secrets. They’re so deep inside he barely knows they’re there, much less how to talk to you about them. Yet he genuinely wants you to “get” him — to understand his inner life, his fears, his needs...In her landmark best-seller, For Women Only, Shaunti Feldhahn reveals what every woman — single or married — needs to know. Based on rigorous research with thousands of men...

In Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage, marital psychologists John and Julie Gottman provide vital tools—scientifically based and empirically verified—that you can use to regain affection and romance lost through years of ineffective communication.In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washington made a startling announcement: Through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict—with more than 90 percen...