Description: This first comprehensive guide to English-language criminal justice materials on Israel covers over 820 sources written between 1948 and 1993. The books, book chapters, articles, and annual and other professional reports have been written by both Israeli and non-Israeli authors. The topic was defined broadly to serve students, teachers, researchers, and professionals in different disciplines and to review the important literature on a score of topics, such as addiction, corrections and probation, correctional treatment, crime and society, homicide, juvenile delinquency, organized crime, law enforcement, rape and violence, suicide, terrorism, and white collar crime. Keywords with each entry and a detailed author, journal, and subject index make the research easily accessible.
Brief description:
ROBERT R. FRIEDMANN, Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University in Atlanta, is also the founder and director of the Georgia criminal justice Statistical Analysis Bureau and of the Georgia-International Law Enforcement Exchange Program there. He has held teaching positions at the University of Haifa and the University of Minnesota. His research interests and published works focus on community policing. His most recent books is Community Policing: Comparative Perspectives and Prospects (1992), and he is currently editing a book on the state of criminal justice in Israel.
Review Quotes: "This interesting and useful annotated bibliography offers a compilation of references in the English language that highlights the contributions of Israeli social scientists to the general literature in criminal justice....In addition to scholars interested in the Israeli criminal justice system, individuals studying comparative criminal justice will find the compilation useful."-Journal of Criminal Justice