Book 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. 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 bibliography also points to important works on criminal justice generally by Israeli authors. The topic was defined broadly to serve students, teachers, researchers, and professionals in different disciplines, and a typology was created for this purpose. The bibliography is organized into 21 topical chapters on a score of topics: addiction, corrections and probation, correctional treatment, crime and society, crime by and among the aged, criminal justice, criminology and deviant behavior, fear of crime, homicide-aggression-violence, juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, law, law enforcement, organized crime, political deviance and violence, rape and violence, social stress, suicide, terrorism, traffic offenses, victimology, and white collar crime. Keywords with each entry and a detailed author, journal, and subject index make the research easily accessible.