Pornography in a Free Society deals with what has been called the 'civil war over smut'.

The importance of the subject and the stature of the authors make this book required reading for policy analysts, criminal justice scholars, elected officials, and indeed any American seeking to know more about "get-tough" criminal ...

Publisher Fact Sheet Offers a startling new look at crime & violence in America that will reshape the debate about crime control.

This book presents a comprehensive examination of the drug control policy process in the United States.

. The views of these professionals must be taken seriously."—Graham Hughes, New York Review of Books "This is a serious and enlightened and concerned attempt to fuse liberal and conservative attitudes and values to achieve a breakthrough ...

"The Scale of Imprisonment has an exceptionally well designed literature review of interest to public policy, criminal justice, and public law scholars.

How useful is the modern prison in restraining crime, and at what cost? How much do we really know about incapacitation and its effectiveness? This book is the first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation.

This book redefines the central political and legal issues of the death penalty in the light of the social, political, and moral conditions of the United States in the 1980s.

Examines the relationship between firearms and interpersonal violence, analyzes patterns of gun ownership in the U.S., and looks at the future of gun control legislation.

Drawing from criminology, law, and the social sciences, the authors evaluate the effectiveness of deterrence as a form of crime control