Crime Policy in America: Laws, Institutions, and Programs is an extremely fascinating book that provides an overview as well as excellent delineation on the shaping of federal, state, and local criminal justice policies throughout our nation, The author has provided an outstanding analysis of policy developments in some of the core criminal justice areas focusing on social, economic, political, and ideological contexts of policy-making in criminal justice. This is a great book for graduate and undergraduate courses on crime and policy analysis, history of policy-making in crime and justice, issues in criminal justice, and other related criminal justice areas.