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A new approach to making everyday criminal justice terms accessible A useful reference work for faculty and students, criminal justice professionals, writers, and anyone else interested in criminal justice and criminology, The Concise Dictionary of Crime and Justice, Second Edition, is an excellent, wide-ranging resource with clear definitions for over 3,000 key criminal justice terms. Often going beyond simply definitions, the dictionary places the entries in a meaningful context, connecting the definitions with other concepts. The dictionary uniquely presents common misperceptions for selected terms, along with additional relevant information to clarify a term’s use or derivation.
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Quantico, VA the site of the FBI’s National Academy. The FBI maintains a training facility there. It is also the site of several important sections within the FBI, including a crime laboratory, the Behavioral Analysis Unit, and their Critical Response Team. See Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
quasi-experimental design an evaluative design where experimental and control groups are not randomly selected or not identical. Quasi-experimental designs are employed in criminological research because experiments using true random assignment are sometimes difficult to arrange in criminal justice settings. See Academy of Experimental Criminology, experimental criminology.
queer criminology criminology that focuses on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (LBGTQ) community and its involvement with crime and the criminal justice system.
questioned documents documents whose authenticity is suspect.
questioned documents examination ...