Annual Criminal Justice 96/97 is one in a series of over sixty-five volumes, each designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current, carefully selected articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today, Within the pages of this volume are interesting, well illustrated articles by criminal justice administrators, educators, researchers, and writers providing effective and useful perspectives on today's important topics in the study of criminal justice.

This volume contains units concerning crime and justice in America, victimology, the police, the judicial system, juvenile justice, and punishment and corrections. The articles in these units were selected because they are informative as well as provocative. The selections are timely and useful in their treatment of ethics, punishment, juveniles, courts, and other related topics.