Randall G. Shelden, M.A., Ph.D., with  a forward by Michael Hallett, University of North Florida, wrote this "...penetrating and highly informative study (that) unravels the historical roots of contemporary criminal justice systems and places them in the context of measures to sustain hierarchies of class, gender and race."

-Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT

This text by Randall G. Shelden, M.A., Ph.D., William "Bud" Brown, Ph.D., Karen S. Miller, and Randal B. Fritzler looks at the components and processes of the criminal justice system and offers an alternative interpretation for statistics and facts about crime and criminal justice.

This engaging textbook by Randall G. Shelden, M.A., Ph.D. encourages students to think critically about the causes of delinquency and possible solutions - and to make certain that arguments are grounded in facts not myth.

Schwartz's story is marked by hope and respect. It is truly breathtaking to read about the transformation of the jails that Sunny has led. Putting the principles of restorative justice to work at ground zero of the crime culture, Sunny and her team have created a space where hardened criminals can realize their better selves and begin giving back to the community that they have heretofore only taken from.

Teens must be controlled -- that's the prevailing picture of youth presented in the media and by government officials. In this whirlwind tour of 10 common myths, Mike A. Males, Ph.D. shows you the statistics -- about drugs, alcohol, sex, crime and curfews -- to reveal what teens are really like, and what they really need.

Winner of the American Society of Criminology's Hindelang Award in 1992, and the most often cited book on the subject of girls and delinquency, this book focuses on the special problems delinquent girls face within our criminal justice system ... and exposes the system's failed attempts to apply male-oriented theories to the delinquency of females. By Meda Chesney-Lind and Randall G. Shelden, M.A., Ph.D.

Randall G. Shelden, M.A., Ph.D. and Daniel Macallair, M.P.A. explain that despite declines in youth crime, public perceptions of youth violence have contributed to widespread support for dismantling the juvenile court system and trying children as adults— replacing rehabilitation with incarceration as the solution to juvenile delinquency.

With 2,500 fatal murders and suicides every month, the typical shooter is white and grownup, 90% are by adults.  America’s appalling firearms scourge is not teenage but grownup; not the product of dark inner-city gangstas and white social-reject gamesters, but mainstream values; not the disease of marginal outcasts, but winner-loser injustices from high school hallway to Washington suite.  By Mike A. Males, Ph.D.

Jerome G. Miller, founder and president of the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, writes an autobiographical account of his tenure as former head of the Massachusetts juvenile justice system during which he daringly closed reformatories and returned the juveniles to the community.

This brand new text identifies the macroeconomic forces relevant to imprisonment—poverty and political powerlessness—and explores viable and humane alternatives to our current incarceration binge.