Since 1979 the Crime and Justice series has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. The series explores a full range of issues concerning crime, its causes, and its cure. Volume 39 covers a range of criminal justice issues, including how drug enforcement affects drug prices, the source of racial disparity in imprisonment, rape and attrition in the legal process, and sex offender recidivism. Contributors to this volume include: Brigitte Bouhours, Jonathan P. Caulkins , Aaron Chalfin, Philip J. Cook, , Kathleen Daly, Denise C. Gottfredson, David S. Kirk, John H. Laub, Stephen D. Mastrofski , Chongmin Na, Steven Raphael, Michael D. Reisig, Peter Reuter, Dirk van Zyl Smit, Keith Soothill, Michael Tonry, and James J. Willis.

Preface

Michael Tonry

Community and Problem-Oriented Policing

Michael D. Reisig

Police Organization Continuity and Change: Into the Twenty-first Century

Stephen D. Mastrofski and James J. Willis

Sex Offender Recidivism

Keith Soothill

How Drug Enforcement Affects Drug Prices

Jonathan P. Caulkins and Peter Reuter

The Social, Psychological, and Political Causes of Racial Disparities in the American Criminal Justice System

Michael Tonry

School Crime Control and Prevention

Philip J. Cook, Denise C. Gottfredson, and Chongmin Na

Neighborhood Change and Crime in the Modern Metropolis

David S. Kirk and John H. Laub

Regulation of Prison Conditions

Dirk van Zyl Smit

Rape and Attrition in the Legal Process: A Comparative Analysis of Five Countries

Kathleen Daly and Brigitte Bouhours