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Criminal Justice. Ed. by Phyllis Gerstenfeld. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem, 2006. 3 vols, acid free $364 (ISBN 1-58765-219-6).
Criminal Justice is a three-volume reference work that explores criminal justice topics with an emphasis on how criminals and the administration of justice are portrayed in the media. Information from an American perspective on corrections, courts, legislation, the U.S. Constitution, law enforcement agencies, and other topics is presented in 625 concise essays. There are black and white photographs, illustrations, charts, and highlighted insets. Nearly one-quarter of the essays within this reference work have been taken from Salem's American Justice (1996) and Magill's Legal Guide (1999). Some of the new material deals with popular topics in forensic science and...