Barnes, Patricia G.
CQ'S Desk Reference on American Criminal Justice: Over 500 Answers to Frequently Asked Questions from Law Enforcement to Corrections. University of Chicago Press,
April 2000.

Features answers to over 500 frequently asked questions about the U.S. legal system. Reference materials include significant laws and court decisions, and a glossary of common legal terms.

Boyer, Peter J.
"The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989: Foundation for the Modern Law of Employment Dissent," New Yorker, January 17, 2000, pp.42-53.

Makes the case that not all DNA laboratories and technicians are created equal, and emphasizes the primary role played by human advocates in the criminal justice process, even with the presence of scientific data.

Champion, Dean J.
Dictionary of American Criminal Justice: Key Terms and Major Supreme Court Cases. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.

An up-to-date dictionary of terms used in the criminal justice field and an annotated alphabetic compilation of important U.S. Supreme Court cases addressing criminal justice make up this volume, which includes a subject index of cases.

Cowan, Catherine
"States Revisit the Death Penalty," State Government News, vol. 44, no.5, May 2001,
pp. 12-17.

Legislators have proposed suspending or abolishing the death penalty in more than 20 states. Cowan details several cases where the system failed, and notes that while according to a public-opinion survey the majority of Americans support capital punishment, they are divided over whether it is administered evenly.

Crump, David and George Jacobs
A Capital Case in America: How Today's Justice System Handles Death Penalty Cases, from Crime Scene to Ultimate Execution of Sentence. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2000.

Describes what happens in a capital case from "the offense and the arrest" to "the aftermath," examining the process from beginning to end and analyzing specific cases.

"DNA Testing and Capital Punishment: Technology from the Crime Scene to the Courtroom," Congressional Digest, November 2001, pp. 257-265.

This issue is devoted to the growing phenomenon of DNA testing and its repercussions for prisoners on death row. Articles focus on technology, the U.S. prison population, state and federal death penalties, and legislative background.

DeVore, Donald and Kevin Gentilcore
"Balanced and Restorative Justice and Educational Programming for Youth At-Risk," The Clearing House, vol. 73, no. 2, November 1999, p. 96.

Discusses Montgomery County, Pennsylvania's, implementation of the "Balanced and Restorative Justice" (BAR J) educational model for youth at-risk. This model replaces more traditional punishment or treatment methods with emphasis on a balanced triangle of goals: community safety, accountability and competency development.

Edwards, Todd
"Sentencing Reform in Southern States: A Review of Truth-in-Sentencing and Three-Strike Measures," Spectrum: The Journal of State Government, September 22, 1999, vol. 72, no.4, p. 8.

Discusses and provides statistical data on the effects of sentencing reform implemented by U.S. states within the Southern Legislative Conference.

Fagan, Jeffrey & Franklin E. Zimring, eds.
The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Transfer of Adolescents to the Criminal Court. University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Contains a collection of essays that address the policy of trying and punishing American youths as adults, the boundaries of juvenile court, and the developmental and psychological aspects of the current policy.

Franklin, Carl J.
Constitutional Law for the Criminal Justice Professional. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1999.

Designed to be both an educational and reference tool for professionals at all levels, this is a study of the most dramatic and significant areas in U.S. constitutional law. Focuses on topics such as search and seizure, arrest and civil rights, due process and the judicial system.

Friedman, Lawrence
Crime & Punishment in American History. New York: Basic Books, 1993.

Written by an eminent Stanford University Law School professor, this panoramic history of the American criminal justice system looks at crime and punishment in America, from the Salem witchcraft trials in the 17th century to the trials of four Los Angeles police officers in the Rodney King beating case in the early 1990s.

Henderson, Harry
Capital Punishment. New York: Facts on File, 2000.

An encyclopedic collection of information on capital punishment, covering many of the debates from several perspectives.

Kadish, Sanford H., ed.
Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. New York: Free Press, 1983.

One of the most significant criminal justice encyclopedias today, this volume contains articles with accompanying bibliographies that provide information on concepts, theories, principles and research related to criminal behavior and criminal justice legal issues.

Kurki, Leena
"Restorative and Community Justice in the United States," Crime & Justice, vol. 27,
Spring 2000, pp. 235-304.

Distinguishes between "restorative justice," which promotes healing and the rebuilding of relations among victims, offenders and their communities; and "community justice," which views crime as a social problem requiring the involvement of criminal justice agencies. Provides background for each movement and evaluates the success of respective projects.

Leighton, Paul
Criminal Justice Ethics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.

A collection of essays that examines how personal and moral beliefs influence the relationship between criminal justice and social justice. Included topics are "what should be a crime?" lawyers' ethics, treatment of inmates, the death penalty and the moral foundations of criminal guilt.

Lewis, Anthony
Gideon's Trumpet. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

A history of the 1963 landmark U.S. Supreme Court case (Gideon v. Wainwright) follows James Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel in criminal proceedings. Includes notes, table of cases leading up to the final verdict and an index.

Manfredi, Christopher P.
The Supreme Court and Juvenile Justice. University Press of Kansas, 1998.

Account of the U.S. Supreme Court's role in shaping the history of American juvenile courts.

Palmer, Louis J., Jr.
Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001.

Comprehensive source of information on the legal, social and political history, and the present status of capital punishment in the U.S.

Paternoster, Raymond, Robert Brame, Ronet Bachman and Lawrence W. Sherman
"Do Fair Procedures Matter?" Law and Society Review, vol. 31, 1997, pp.163-204.

Results from the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Domestic Violence Experiment show that when police acted in a procedurally fair manner in the arrest of assault suspects, the rate of subsequent domestic violence was significantly lower than when they did not.

Ryan, George and Frank Keating
"Is the Death Penalty Fair?" State Government News, vol. 44, no. 5, May 2001, pp. 10-11.

The governor of Illinois (Ryan) tells how wrongful convictions made him reassess the death penalty, while the governor of Oklahoma (Keating) maintains it can be fairly administered.

Schmalleger, Frank
Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction. 4th ed. Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Criminal Justice Today: An Introductory Text for the 21st Century. 6th ed. Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.

Schmalleger's two textbooks above, look at the U.S. criminal justice system, and present overviews and analyses of crime, criminal law, policing, adjudication and corrections, as well as focus on juvenile justice, drugs and the future of criminal justice in the United States.

Sherwin, Richard K.
When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line between Law and Popular Culture. University of Chicago Press, 2000.

A legal theorist's and former prosecutor's appraisal of the impact of popular culture on the criminal justice system in the United States.

Sudo, Phil
"Five 'little' people who changed U.S. history; Supreme Court cases: Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857; Brown v. Board of Education, 1954; Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963; Miranda v. Arizona, 1966; Roe v. Wade, 1973," Scholastic Update, vol. 122, no. 10, January 26, 1990, p. 8.

Profiles five U.S. Supreme Court cases in which ordinary people profoundly influenced the course of justice in the United States.

Tyler, Tom R.
"Social Justice: Outcome and Procedure," International Journal of Psychology, vol. 35, 2000, pp. 117-125.

Recent psychological research on social justice seems to indicate that people are more willing to accept procedural justice judgments when they feel that those judgments are made through decision-making procedures they view as fair. "Fairness" is evaluated by such criteria as neutrality and trustworthiness of authorities, and the degree to which authorities treat subjects with dignity and respect during the process.

Tyler, Tom R., et al
Social Justice in a Diverse Society. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997.

Analysis of the existence of cross-cultural conceptions of justice, concluding with an optimistic picture of the possibility of the realization of justice within a multicultural society.

Umbreit, Mark S.
"Restorative Justice Through Victim-Offender Mediation: A Multi-Site Assessment," Western Criminology Review vol.1, no.1. 1998.

Report on studies in restorative justice, which concentrate on processes and results of several victim-offender mediation situations. Text only available online.

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