SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences »

Since 1995, Larry Sullivan has been the chief library administrator of the criminal justice library at John Jay, one of the senior colleges of The City University of New York. He directs the operations of the largest criminal justice library in the world; teaches graduate courses (e.g. Advanced Criminology, Punishment and Responsibility) and directs Ph.D. dissertations. He has published 5 books as an author, co-author or editor, including The Prison Reform Movement, (Twayne, 1990). He is on the advisory board for the Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment and is about to sign with us to be the lead editor for a three volume Encyc. of Law Enforcement.

The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences provides college and university students with a highly accessible, curriculum-driven reference work, both in print and on-line, defining the major terms needed to achieve fluency in the social and behavioral sciences. Comprehensive and inclusive, its interdisciplinary scope covers such varied fields as anthropology, communication and media studies, criminal justice, economics, education, geography, human services, management, political science, psychology, and sociology. In addition, while not a discipline, methodology is at the core of these fields and thus receives due and equal consideration. At the same time we strive to be comprehensive and broad in scope, we recognize a need to be compact, accessible, and affordable. Thus the work is organized in A-to-Z fashion and kept to a single volume of approximately 600 to 700 pages.