Legal aspects of criminology

The social processes which underpin and shape our lives have the power to significantly transform the trajectories of people experiencing recovery from addiction and desistance from crime.

Providing a comprehensive exploration, this volume explains connections between American culture and the incidence of serial murder, including reasons why most identified serial murderers are white, male Americans.

This multifaceted reference work surveys the history, development, leadership, and priorities of Black Lives Matter (BLM), including the group's efforts to raise public awareness of police violence in communities of color.

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Insecure Digital Frontiers is an immersive exploration into the tumultuous realm of cybersecurity, where the ever-expanding digital frontiers are both the battleground and the prize.

This book is an in-depth critical examination of all pertinent aspects of life without parole (LWOP).

Violence is a serious public health problem.

This book shows how to use biopsychosocial assessment for crime prevention and to achieve more individualized treatment for those who commit crimes.

Millions of pounds are spent every year trying to tackle human trafficking, modern slavery and child sexual exploitation.

Over the last fifteen years, the analytical field of punishment and society has witnessed an increase of research developing the connection between economic processes and the evolution of penality from different standpoints, focusing particularly on the increase of rates of incarceration in relation to the transformations of neoliberal capitalism.

"e;The chapters in this book reveal that police education, training, and practices are now closely tied to collaboration between police, academics, professional practitioners, and community agencies, and such collaboration is described and evaluated.

This book addresses the myriad controversies and examines the evidence regarding capital punishment in America.

The infiltration of organised crime in the legitimate economy has emerged as a transnational phenomenon.

Cybercrime and Digital Deviance, Second Edition, combines insights from sociology, criminology, psychology, and cybersecurity to explore cybercrimes such as hacking, identity theft, and romance scams, along with forms of digital deviance such as pornography addiction, trolling, and "e;canceling"e; people for perceived violations of norms.

Cybersecurity and Data Science Innovations for Sustainable Development of HEICC: Healthcare, Education, Industry, Cities, and Communities brings together a collection of chapters that explore the intersection of cybersecurity, data science, and sustainable development across key sectors: healthcare, education, industry, cities, and communities.

The explosive growth of bioeconomy and bioscience, coupled with an interconnected planet increases the potential impact of large-scale bio-events.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been fast growing since its evolution and experiments with various new add-on features; human efficiency is one among those and the most controversial topic.

This book considers how neoliberal criminal law constructs racialised 'hypercriminals'.

Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras are a prominent, if increasingly familiar, feature of urbanism.

The last twenty years have seen an explosion in the development of information technology, to the point that people spend a major portion of waking life in online spaces.

Co-published with the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) and the Society of Pediatric Nurses (SPN).

This book pursues a critical perspective on the phenomenon of state violence and its legal unaccountability.

This book bridges the disciplines of legal studies and sociology in its engaging introduction to the history, purpose, function, and influence of the Supreme Court, demonstrating through ten landmark decisions the Court's impact on the five key sociological institutions in the United States: family, education, religion, government, and economy.

The objective of Arab Criminology is to establish a criminological subfield called 'Arab Criminology.

Focusing on the relationship between the micro level of perpetrator motivation and the macro level normative discourse, this book offers an in-depth explanation for the perpetration of genocide.

The Crime Scene: A Visual Guide provides visual instruction on the correct way to process a crime scene.

Drawing heavily on original research designed to train police officers to survive deadly encounters, Profiling Cop-Killers examines the sociological history, psychology, and motives of 50 murderers of police officers in 2011.

Much of the literature on police corruption and police reforms is dominated by case studies of societies classified as developed.

Wildfire arson is often considered an impossible crime to solve.

CTPED and Traditional Security Countermeasures: 150 Things You Should Know is a handy reference for both seasoned professionals and those just starting out in security and law enforcement.

A Hands-On Introduction to Forensic Science, Second Edition continues in the tradition of the first edition taking a wholly unique approach to teaching forensic science.

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This book explores China's Belt and Road Initiative and the criminogenic potential for economic, financial, and socio-cultural cooperation across countries, where some are known for weak law enforcement and high levels of corruption.

There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories.

From predictive policing to self-surveillance to private security, the potential uses to of big data in crime control pose serious legal and ethical challenges relating to privacy, discrimination, and the presumption of innocence.

This reader presents a comprehensive review of the research on mass incarceration as it relates to causes, impact, and solutions.

Essential Nursing Care for Children and Young People is the definitive guide for all nursing and healthcare students and professionals caring for children and young people.

Karla Homolka has proven to be a figure of enduring interest to the public and media for the last 20 years.

Child Abuse and Neglect examines the latest research on this important topic, discussing what it entails, how to recognize it, and how to report it.

Rob White's pioneering work in the establishment and growth of green criminology has been part of a paradigm shift for the field of criminology as it has moved to include crimes committed against the environment.

New ethnographic data leads to insights into the widespread yet understudied phenomenon of criminal extortion in Latin America.

Invisible Voices explores the intersection of criminology and history as a way of contextualizing the historical black presence in crime and punishment in the UK.

A detailed study of the importance of the timing of guilty pleas and its effects across different legal jurisdictions.

This book sets an agenda for the development of historical approaches to criminology.

A systematic analysis of extraterritorial obligations and state responsibility for private actors under international refugee law.