The definitions include legal terms, law enforcement terms, medical and psychiatric terms, and relevant abbreviations. Also defined are weapons, nicknames of prisons, terms relating to white-collar crime, names of criminal gangs and terrorist groups, criminal slang, the slang of the drug culture, significant historical references, various types of scams, and criminal techniques and devices. Appendixes include foreign terms that relate to crime, place-name nicknames frequently used by criminals, and selected sources arranged by title. (Publisher's summary modified)