Jay S. Albanese

An excellent introduction to topics under the criminology umbrella for those unschooled in the field and a state-of-the-art refresher for those who are. This is some pretty in-depth stuff, so it may not be appropriate for smaller academic libraries. For larger institutions though, and certainly for those supporting criminal justice studies, this is a worthwhile purchase. A comparable competing title for collection development dollars is Gerben Bruinsma and David Weisburd's Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Springer, 2013).