It's by Steven Briggs, it had just came out to stores last week. Went and bought it that same day.

Learn to:

- Understand the sociological, environmental, and psychological causes of criminal behavior.

- Appreciate the techniques law enforcement officers use to investigate crimes.

- Consider the methods that have been developed to punish crime.

- Measure crime and identify the important points of criminal theory.

Find:

- Common criminal traits.

- The causes of violent crimes.

- Recent efforts to secure victim's rights.

- The process used to solve crimes.

- A step-by-step walkthrough of the criminal justice system.

- Ways to recognize and fight back against crime.

- Jobs in the criminal justice field.

- Ten notorious, unsolved crimes.

That's just some of what it says on the cover.

Now, I'm only on chapter 5 of 24 chapters. But just little things I've picked up here and there. Things to take in to consideration.

Here is a list from 2007, of each of those crimes that were reported in the United States, and how much % of them lead to arrests. Listing both Violent crimes and Property crimes, and a list of each types of them.

Violent crime: 1,227,330. 44.5%
-Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter: 14,811. 61.2%
-Forcible rape: 78,740. 40.0%
-Robbery: 383,749. 25.9%
-Aggravated assault: 750,030. 54.1%
Property crime: 8,716,315. 16.5%
-Burglary: 1,946,803. 12.4%
-Larceny-theft: 5,774,598. 18.6%
-Motor vehicle theft: 994,914. 18.3%
-Arson: 62,248. 18.3%

Of all these arrests, it's up to the prosecutor/district attorney to prosecute the individual arrested, in a criminal lawsuit, or, for the victim to file a civil lawsuit. Often for first time offenders, depending on the severity of the crime, may not have a very lengthy prison sentence, if any at all. Or even a fine. However, even defendants who prove innocence in court of law, often have to pay a court fee.

What I've noticed both from reading this book and talking to police officers I knew, is an inbalance in the government. Sometimes, guilty persons are released early from prison due to overcrowding. Sometimes individuals who are not very guilty are arrested due to status quo. If the police don't arrest a certain amount of people a month, it looks like they are not doing their job arresting the bad guys. If they arrest too many people, it may appear as if they're not out there doing their jobs patrolling enough and deterring these crimes from taking place at all in the first place.

This book also speaks of ways the government can and does assist the victims of crime.

Statistics of what types of people are most likely victimized, and which types most likely commit crimes, both listed in such of the following personal characteristics: Age, race, gender, income, and lifestyle choices.

And so much more important information there. What I just said is barely a little bit of what is in there. You'll all just have to see it for yourselves.

I strongly recommend this book to everyone who wants to go out there and fight crime, or to assist those who do. At least in the United States, that is. I'm not sure yet if there's any other books about this for those of you in other countries.