Criminal Justice and Beyond : An International Perspective/edited by Scott. M. Mire and Robert D. Hanser. New Delhi, Serials Pub., 2008, x, 342 p., tables, figs., ISBN 81-8387-167-9.

    Contents: Preface. About the contributors. 1. Atkins V. Virginia and mental competence to be executed: The death penalty and the mentally retarded/Kelly Ann Cheeseman, Rolando V. del Carmen and Robert Worley. 2. Brief STD/HIV intervention in a juvenile detention center: Sexual risk behavior and risk reduction/Angela A. Roertson, Connie Baird - Thomas, Patricia L. Dill and David T. Morse. 3. Making crime and youth into problems for elderly people ideology and identity construction among organized seniors/Hakan Jonson. 4. Media portrayals of transnational organized crime in Russia, Colombia and China/Nathan R. Moran, Richard H. Ward and Robet D. Hanser. 5. Plea bargaining: notes and observations of a more indispensable but less than perfect system/Craig J. Foresyth and Scott M. Mire. 6. Presumed guilty: an examination of the criminal activity of inmate visitors/Stacey Nofziger and Keith Farrington. 7. Working through the fear: experiential origins of confidence in crime/Heith Copes, Andy Hochstetler and Michele Crabtree. 8. Child murder in the countryside/Matthew R. Lee and Ginger D. Stevenson. 9. Certainty of apprehension and the social context of theft: a cross-national time-series analysis/Matthew R. Lee. 10. Institutional interactions: effects of law on therapy/Mike Ryan. 11. The impact of Stigma on commercial sex workers, IDUs, and those who trade sex for drugs/R. Terry Furst and Kirsten E. Hunt. 12. Marijuana legislation: a public policy perspective/Rachel J. Kaetterhenry, Joseph B. Kuhns III and Bruce A. Arrigo. 13. Runaways: constructing a typology of motives/Jessica Simpson and Craig J. Forsyth. 14. "Some People Deserve Killing': "An individual-level test of the southern subculture of violence thesis/Timothy C. Brown and William B. Bankston. Index.

    "Criminal justice and beyond is meant to provide the reader with a current compilation of the most recent publications covering various aspects of the criminal justice discipline. As we prepared this text we paid special attention to making sure the most salient components of criminal justice are represented. As most texts have a specific focus, we decided that a broad snapshot of contemporary issues may be of particular value in addition to serving as a reference for some of the most current information pertaining to specific topics. We are confident that each of the manuscripts chosen for this book represents state of the art ideas and methods aimed at capturing the essence of the specific phenomenon under scrutiny. In addition, as evidenced by the title, we included several manuscripts that cover important criminal justice topics from an international perspective. This is an important component and necessary for a true, comprehensive approach to the discipline of criminal justice." (jacket)

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