Measuring Offender Risk: A Criminal Justice Sourcebook

by Dean John Champion

Champion, an expert on criminal behavior, paroling, and sentencing, assesses how the justice system makes critical decisions about offender risks and needs. This sourcebook evaluates the instruments and methods used by local, state, and federal authorities at different stages and in different environments to handle both adult and juvenile offenders. Criminologists, penologists, and law enforcement personnel will see ways to optimize institutional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313285934
• ISBN13: 9780313285936
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"