Legal aspects of criminology

Estimation of the Time Since Death is a current comprehensive work on the methods and research advances into the time since death and human decomposition.

What kind of state emerges from the pandemic?

Gratuitous Angst in White America presents a new criminological theory that explains the racialized experiences of white people.

This volume is a new contribution to the dynamic scholarly discussion of the control and regulation of psychoactive substances in culture and society.

Drawing on empirical research conducted with police in the UK and Romania, Child Trafficking in the EU explores the way in which the 'who' and 'how' we police and protect as trafficker and trafficked is related to Western notions of innocence, guilt, childhood, and of the status of 'deserving' victim.

Sexual Violence on Trial provides a contemporary critical examination of the investigation, prosecution and cultural contexts of sexual violence.

The issue of resettling ex-prisoners and ex-offenders into the community has become an increasingly important one on both sides of the Atlantic.

Exploring a specific type of sexual violence committed by a specific type of sexual offender, namely adult male on adult female stranger sexual violence, this book provides readers with an enhanced understanding of both the offences being committed and the offenders who commit them.

This book provides a distinctive and critical analysis of the anti-money laundering (AML) measures that have been put in place in Turkiye and the United Kingdom.

Atlas of Human Cranial Macromorphoscopic Traits synthesizes macromorphoscopic traits and their analysis in an accessible manner, providing detailed descriptions and examples of the various character state manifestations intended for use in classrooms, laboratories, and in the field.

Discussing social media-related scholarship found in criminology, legal studies, policing, courts, corrections, victimization, and crime prevention, this book presents the current state of our knowledge on the impact of social media and the major sociological frameworks employed to study the U.

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This book presents the argument that solution-driven policy and treaty changes, if faithfully implemented, will rekindle the relevance of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in combatting and prosecuting atrocity crimes.

This book queries the concept of rehabilitation to determine how, on a legislative and policy level, the term is defined as a goal of correctional systems.

Sexual Offending and Mental Health draws together theoretical, clinical and mental health issues for the range of professionals working in the community and in-patient settings with sex offenders and those who have behaved in sexually inappropriate ways.

"e;This book provides a complete look at neonatal healthcare delivery.

While increasing attention has been directed to the legal and criminological aspects of situational crime prevention, focused ethical discussion of the measures involved has been notable by its absence.

The seventh volume concludes this documentation and describes criminal proceedings involving previously undocumented case groups.

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

Paediatric Neurosurgery for Nurses: Evidence-based care for children and their families provides accessible and up-to-date information for nurses working in paediatric neurosurgery.

Sentencing is the process through which the legitimacy of punishment is declared and justified.

Throughout the western world public opinion has played an important role in shaping criminal justice policy.

577 pages, 1613 images, 22 contributors
Child Maltreatment: A Comprehensive Photographic Reference Identifying Potential Child Abuse include forensic photodocumentation from physical examinations of abused children, crime scene documentation and recreations taken by law enforcement officials, and autopsy photos demonstrating fatal physical trauma.

When The Shield first appeared on US television in March 2002, it broke ratings records with the highest audience-rated original series premiere in cable history.

The increased militarization of the police in the United States has been a topic of controversy for decades, brought to the public eye in notable events such as the Los Angeles Police Department's use of battering rams in the 1980s and the siege of the Weaver family at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in the 1990s, among others.

This collection adds to the critical transitional justice scholarship that calls for "e;transitional justice from below"e; and that makes visible the complex and oftentimes troubled entanglements between justice endeavours, locality, and memory-making.

This book is a study of the workings of the Discretionary Lifer Panels of the Parole Board, the body charged with the responsibility for making decisions on the release of discretionary life sentence prisoners.

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A Scientific Framework for Compassion and Social Justice provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the behavior analytic principles that maintain social justice issues and highlights behavior analytic principles that promote self-awareness and compassion.

Life is characterised by movement, change and development, including transitions, losses and grief.

Mobilities research is now centre stage in the social sciences with wide-ranging work that considers the politics underscoring the movements of people and objects, critically examining a world that is ever on the move.

The Sicilian Mafia is the most famous criminal organisation in the world.

This book contributes to the literature on organized crime by providing a detailed account of the various nuances of what happens when criminal organizations misuse or penetrate legitimate businesses.

Serial Crime provides a theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the motivation and dynamics in a range of serial offenses .

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.

Drawing on original research on the effectiveness of a therapeutic community (TC) in reducing recidivism among juvenile male offenders, Correctional Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Communities: Reducing Recidivism Through Behavior Change provides a comprehensive review of the current state of drug treatment for the offending population, especially the link between juvenile offending and substance abuse.

Without strong proof, policy advocates along with some scholars have causally linked declines in juvenile offending and incarceration with evidence-based and rehabilitation-oriented policy reform.

This book is the culmination of three years of research into sexual violence policies and sexual consent education at post-secondary institutions across Canada.

America's drug laws have always exerted an unequal and unfair toll on Blacks and Latinos, who are arrested more often than Whites for the possession of illegal drugs and given harsher sentences.

Over the past twenty years, there's been a gradual shift in the way forensic scientists approach the evaluation of DNA profiling evidence that is taken to court.

The 'spycops' scandal has laid bare the existence of secretive police units that sent undercover police officers to infiltrate and undermine hundreds of political campaigns and activist groups.

What is evidence-based policing and how is it done?

This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to probation.

On any given day nearly 3000 foreign national citizens are detained under immigration powers in UK detention centres alone.

Understanding the Modern Russian Police represents the culmination of ten years of research and an ongoing partnership between the Volgograd Academy of Russian Internal Affairs Ministry (VA MVD) and the Volgograd branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (VAPA).

This volume focuses on the complex relation between offending and the transition from school to the workplace: how employment and education are related to breaking the law and getting in contact with the criminal justice system.