Legal aspects of criminology

This book aims to demonstrate the use of business driven risk assessments to address government regulations and guidelines specific to the management of risks related to all third party arrangements and emphasises that organisations retain accountability for business activities, functions and services outsourced to a third party.

Domestic Violence as State Crime presents a provocative challenge to the way that domestic violence is understood and addressed.

Seit über drei Jahrzehnten organisiert das Departement für Privatrecht der Rechtswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Freiburg die Strassenverkehrsrechts-Tagung.

This book explores the intersection of two emergent and vibrant fields of study in international human rights law: transitional justice and corporate accountability for human rights abuses.

With expert evidence used more and more often in criminal jury cases, evaluation of its admissibility and presentation is being increasingly thrust into the spotlight.

In modern countries, a company is commonly categorized as either public or privately-held, depending on whether securities are publicly traded on the open market, into a government-owned company or private company depending on government ownership, or a financial company or non-financial company depending on its main business, and so on.

This book explores the intersection of two emergent and vibrant fields of study in international human rights law: transitional justice and corporate accountability for human rights abuses.

This book integrates research on the causes, responses and protective strategies for vicarious trauma that are recognised in a range of human services and argues their relevance to the legal profession.

There are more than 20 theories that explain crime.

This book uses a human rights perspective - developed philosophically, politically and legally - to change the way in which we think about drug control issues.

This is a book about the men and women who police contemporary South Africa.

This book covers every aspect of the informant and cooperating witness dynamic a controversial technique shrouded in secrecy and widely misunderstood.

Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence explores how family and family activism work at the intersection of personal and public troubles and considers what influence family testimonies of fatal violence can have on matters of crime, justice, and punishment.

Caring for the Child with Complex Needs in Community Settings provides a valuable overview of the key factors relating to caring for children with complex and continuing care needs.

"e;It is hoped that, through this series, it will be possible to accelerate the process of building knowledge about policing and help bridge the gap between the two worlds the world of police research and police practice.

The increasing portrayal of forensic investigative techniques in the popular media CSI, for example, has resulted in criminals becoming "e;forensically aware"e; and more careful about leaving behind physical evidence at a crime scene.

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

Biological Distance Analysis: Forensic and Bioarchaeological Perspectives synthesizes research within the realm of biological distance analysis, highlighting current work within the field and discussing future directions.

She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power - 1619 to 1969 proves that The Black Woman liberated herself.

The prison has often been the focus for concerns about human rights violations, and campaigns aimed at achieving social justice, for those with an interest in the criminalisation of women.

This book draws international attention to the autonomy of the child accompanying incarcerated mothers, and those they leave behind in the community, despite being dependent on the convicted caregiver.

The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy.

Based on extensive analysis of real-time, authentic crisis encounters collected in the UK and US, Crisis Talk: Negotiating with Individuals in Crisis sheds light on the relatively hidden world of communication between people in crisis and the professionals whose job it is to help them.

This book analyses collective punishment in the context of human rights law.

The Concept of the Civilian: Legal Recognition, Adjudication and the Trials of International Criminal Justice offers a critical account of the legal shaping of civilian identities by the processes of international criminal justice.

This book examines the trade in nonhuman animals of endangered wild species.

The first book to focus on an exciting new alternative to the controversial ''lie-detector tests'': the Concealed Information Test.

Surveillance is a central organizing practice.

Rural crime has long been overlooked in the field of crime prevention.

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) have emerged as a major phenomenon within the education, health, criminal justice and social care systems of many countries, with current prevalence figures suggesting that one in a hundred children and young people have FASDs.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to criminological theory for students taking courses in criminology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Transnational Crime and Human Rights offers an evaluation of the responses to the transnational crime of human trafficking and governance of the issue through a case study of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), which comprises Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam.

Since the publication of the second edition in 2010, the field of sex work studies has expanded.

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Describes a highly effective alternative health care paradigm Two distinguished leaders in (nurse-)midwifery provide a comprehensive examination of an effective, well-known model of perinatal care associated with improved health outcomes and reduced costs.

Sexual Offences Against Children in India examines the evolution of the law pertaining to sexual violence against children, the judicial decisions since the inception of the POCSO Act till date with respect to aspects of the POCSO Act and the best practices from other developed jurisdictions for handling cases and victims of child abuse.

This book offers a one-stop guide to becoming employable and to careers in the criminal justice sector and beyond, exploring the key organisations and employers in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, explaining how they operate and detailing how they are changing.

Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks provides an innovative exploration of U.

It is essential for those employed within the justice system to be able to competently and confidently work at the borders between ethics and the law.

Learn to pull "e;digital fingerprints from alternate data storage (ADS) devices including: iPod, Xbox, digital cameras and more from the cyber sleuths who train the Secret Service, FBI, and Department of Defense in bleeding edge digital forensics techniques.

The Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies comprehensively examines the topic of homicide from a diverse collection of perspectives and backgrounds.

In the UK and elsewhere, restorative justice and policing are core components of a range of university programmes; however, currently no such text exists on the intersection of these two areas of study.

This groundbreaking book presents new historical, legal, sociological, psychological, and cross-disciplinary research on male intergenerational intimacy.

Children and Young People s Nursing at a Glance, is the perfect companion for study and revision for pre-registration children s nursing students from the publishers of the market-leading at a Glance series.

The Lived Experiences of Claiming Wrongful Conviction in Prison focuses on the lived experience of maintaining innocence in the prison environment and highlights the struggles and pain that such a claim can cause.

In the course of the 20th and 21st centuries, major offences committed by individuals have been subject to progressive systematisation in the framework of international criminal law.

This book examines the process and purpose of sentencing in the criminal justice system, beyond the confines of its legalistic aspects.

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

An in-depth look at the consequences of New York City's dramatically expanded policing of low-level offensesFelony conviction and mass incarceration attract considerable media attention these days, yet the most common criminal-justice encounters are for misdemeanors, not felonies, and the most common outcome is not prison.

Rethinking Rape Law provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of contemporary rape laws, across a range of jurisdictions.