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This text aim is to document women's unique and gender-biased experience as participants and victims of the criminal justice system. Topics include women on death row, probation and parole, juvenile delinquents and prostitution, cross referencing fields such as law, social work and psychology.

The chapters deal with general issues in comparative criminology, cross-national data, perceptions of crime, violent crime, crimes against property, economic and political crime, transnational corporate crime, correlates of crime, underdevelopment and modernization, social control and dispute resolution, and criminal justice and penal policies.

This guide to English-language criminal justice materials on Israel covers over 820 sources written between 1948 and 1993. The books, book chapters, articles and annual and other professional reports have been written by both Israeli and non-Israeli authors.

In addition to advising judicial decision-makers by assessing such issues as pre-trial competency, insanity, and dangerousness, mental health professionals working in criminal justice system settings manage and treat mentally ill and substance abusing offenders on a daily basis.

The scarcity of statistical data for earlier historical periods and the relative inaccessibility of widely scattered source materials have created difficulties for scholars attempting to focus on the patterns of American crime.