NCJ Number
93426
Editor(s)
E Beckman
Date Published
1983
Length
239 pages
Annotation
This dictionary brings together terms from law, police administration, corrections, and criminology to help persons wishing to be knowledgeable about the criminal justice system to have an understanding of all its components and their special terminology.
Abstract
Following each term, a parenthetical abbreviation denotes the areas of criminal justice from which the term is derived: corrections, criminalistics, criminology, law, or police administration. Cross-references are also given for some terms.