This title was first published in 2002: A collection of criminal justice researchers select a number of books, documents, papers and such like, that they believe to be important and influential in the field of criminal justice research.

Contributors, Foreword, PART 1: THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE CORE, 1. The First Cut is the Deepest: Criminological Texts and the Return of the Repressed, 2. Reflections on 'Victims' and 'Victimisation': An Autobiography of Ideas, PART 2: POLICE CULTURE, 3. Beyond Behaviourism: Police Culture Revisited, 4. Researching Equality: The Case of Women Police, 5. Under Observation: Leadership in American Policing, PART 3: THE POLICE ROLE, 6. Reinventing Governance: The Case of Private Policing, 7. Community Policing: The US Experience, PART 4: CRIME INVESTIGATION, 8. The Story of Criminal Proceedings: From Fact-finding to Police Decision-making, 9. Applying Psychology to Crime Investigation: The Case of Police Interviewing, Index