Legal aspects of criminology

AI-Enabled Threat Intelligence and Cyber Risk Assessment delves into the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in revolutionizing cybersecurity, offering a comprehensive exploration of current trends, challenges, and future possibilities in mitigating cyber risks.

The aim of this book is to demonstrate the use of business driven risk assessments to address government regulations and guidelines specific to AI risks, as AI systems often require access to personal data.

This handbook provides a timely synthesis of the international literature that investigates men's experiences of intimate partner violence and help seeking behavior, and considers what the findings mean for research, practice, and policy.

Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, this volume explores contemporary knowledge regarding the online sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, and challenges prevailing myths perpetuated by society and the media concerning this form of violence, the offenders, and their victims.

Boeing was once a symbol of engineering excellence, a company driven by the innovation and precision of its engineers.

There are different forms of discrimination.

Presenting cutting-edge research and scholarship, this extensive volume covers everything from abstract theorising about the meanings of responsibility and how we blame, to analysing criminal law and justice responses, and factors that impact individual responsibility.

This edited collection provides the reader with a comprehensive knowledge of automated decision-making, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithms, and how they can be used in criminal proceedings.

It has been said that how a society treats its least well-off members speaks volumes about its humanity.

This collection explores a variety of issues facing contemporary juries, bringing together innovative research from different disciplines and jurisdictions.

The Investigator's Guide to Steganography provides a comprehensive look at this unique form of hidden communication from its beginnings to modern uses.

This book, Securing the Digital Realm: Advances in Hardware and Software Security, Communication, and Forensics, is a comprehensive guide that explores the intricate world of digital security and forensics.

Ongoing advances in arson detection tools and techniques increase the importance of scientific evidence in related court proceedings.

This book presents a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study into the various goals assigned to international criminal trials.

We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt.

When should we try to prevent suicide?

The history of criminal justice in the U.

How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison?

For most of the 20th Century, sentencing purposes and procedures were virtually the same in all American jurisdictions.

Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Warren McCleskey.

Research on prisons prior to the prison boom of the 1980s and 1990s focused mainly on inmate subcultures, inmate rights, and sociological interpretations of inmate and guard adaptations to their environment, with qualitative studies and ethnographic methods the norm.

Criminological theory texts typically follow a conventional format.

How did the United States, a nation known for protecting the "e;right to remain silent"e; become notorious for condoning and using controversial tactics like water boarding and extraordinary rendition to extract information?

In the 1980s, a series of child sex abuse cases rocked the United States.

Although white-collar crime has caused a substantial amount of damage on both the individual and societal levels, it often ranks below street crime as a matter of public concern.

Criminology is a dynamic and evolving field of study.

The forty-percent drop in crime that occurred across the U.

Punishment policies and practices in the United States today are unprincipled, chaotic, and much too often unjust.

It is no secret that America's sentencing and corrections systems are in crisis, and neither system can be understood or repaired fully without careful consideration of the other.

Highly popular with both the public and political leaders, community policing is the most important development in law enforcement in the last twenty-five years.

With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "e;disorderly"e; people continue to occupy public space in many American cities.

Across America today gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors.

In his engaging narrative history of the rise and workings of America's first juvenile court, David S.

In Retributivism: Essays on Theory and Policy, Professor Mark D.

This first volume in the four-volume series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law focuses on the "e;harm principle,"e; the commonsense view that prevention of harm to persons other than the perpetrator is a legitimate purpose of criminal legislation.

Although criminal justice systems in developed Western countries are much alike in form, structure, and function, the American system is unique.

Focusing contemporary democratic theory on the neglected topic of punishment, Punishment, Participatory Democracy, and the Jury argues for increased civic engagement in criminal justice as an antidote to the American penal state.

Social tensions between majority and minority populations often center on claims that minorities are largely responsible for crime and disorder.

The forty-percent drop in crime that occurred across the U.

The police are perhaps the most visible representation of government.

Research on gender, sex, and crime today remains focused on topics that have been a mainstay of the field for several decades, but it has also recently expanded to include studies from a variety of disciplines, a growing number of countries, and on a wider range of crimes.

In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars.

In The Victimization of Women, Michelle Meloy and Susan Miller present a balanced and comprehensive summary of the most significant research on the victimizations, violence, and victim politics that disproportionately affect women.

In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars.

In The Victimization of Women, Michelle Meloy and Susan Miller present a balanced and comprehensive summary of the most significant research on the victimizations, violence, and victim politics that disproportionately affect women.

What makes a juvenile delinquent develop into an adult criminal?

Lawyer misconduct affects many people: clients, adversaries, opposing counsel, judges, the legal profession, and society at large.

Nearly all research devoted to policing focuses on public uniformed police and their legal use of force.

For nearly two centuries in the United States, the punishment of crime was largely aimed, in theory and in practice, at prevention, rehabilitation or incapacitation, and deterrence.

How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison?