Legal aspects of criminology

This book brings together leading scholars from the next generation of UK criminal lawyers to celebrate the work of GR Sullivan, Emeritus Professor at University College London, in the year of his retirement from writing Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine.

Behavioral Forensics: Using Applied Behavior Analysis in Psychological Court Evaluations presents the first compendia on the application of behavioral principles for the assessment and analysis of criminal behavior in court-ordered psychological evaluations.

Memetic War analyses memetic warfare included in cyber war and aims to develop a framework for understanding the parameters included in utilising this concept in Ukraine as a part of civic resistance.

The Handbooks of Homeland Security Handbook is a convenient, one-stop reference and guide to the latest regulations and developments in all things relevant to the homeland security and defense domain.

This book examines the drug dealer in contemporary society from an interdisciplinary perspective and considers the increasingly blurred demarcation between illegitimate and legitimate drug markets.

Attempts to try individuals such as Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein for international crimes and the creation of the International Criminal Court highlight the growing currency and importance of international criminal law as a discipline in its own right.

Over six years of imprisonment in Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book No Friend but the Mountains.

This book explores practical examples of co-production in criminal justice research and practice.

Integrating Python with Leading Computer Forensic Platforms takes a definitive look at how and why the integration of Python advances the field of digital forensics.

Ideal for use, either as a second text in a standard criminology course, or for a discrete course on biosocial perspectives, this book of original chapters breaks new and important ground for ways today's criminologists need to think more broadly about the crime problem.

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.

Training and education constitutes the backbone of a significant amount of police activity and expenditure in developing the most important resources involved in policing work.

In the wake of 2001, terrorism laws and their policing have been charged with eroding civil liberties and discriminating against Muslim and ethnic minority peoples.

How does the law deal with young offenders, and to what extent does the law protect and promote the rights of young people in conflict with the law?

The Fraud Act 2006 presented a wholesale reform of the pre-existing deception offences under the Theft Act 1968 and Theft Act 1978.

This fully-updated and much expanded second edition provides a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the current debates in international humanitarian law.

Policing in America, Ninth Edition,provides a thorough analysis of the key issues in policing today, and offers an issues-oriented discussion focusing on critical concerns such as personnel systems, organization and management, operations, discretion, use of force, culture and behavior, ethics and deviance, civil liability, and police-community relations.

The 2020 deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor rekindled decades old concerns about the legitimacy of policing.

The US government spends billions of dollars to secure strategic and tactical assets at home and abroad against enemy attack.

The study of white-collar crime remains a central concern for criminologists around the world and research concentrates on its nature, prevalence, causes and responses.

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

This bestselling second edition introduces new case studies to illustrate concepts explained in the text and includes information about eliminating accidental causes of fires and investigating fatal fires.

Challenging the assumption that the capitalist transformation includes a radical break with the past, this edited volume traces how historically older forms of social inequality are transformed but persist in the present to shape the social structure of contemporary societies in the global South.

In Camera Clues, Joe Nickell shares his methods of identifying and dating old photos and demonstrates how to distinguish originals from copies and fakes.

What is the 'rule of law'?

Does the development of new technology cause an increase in the level of surveillance used by central government?

Drawing upon a unique forensic linguistic project on online undercover policing the authors further understanding of language and identity.

Transhumanism, Artificial Intelligence, the Cloud, Robotics, Electromagnetic Fields, Intelligence Communities, Rail Transportation, Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)-all this and more is discussed in Cyber Crime Investigator's Field Guide, Third Edition.

This ground-breaking book offers a practitioner-oriented overview of professional standards in all aspects of policing.

Mit der Föderalismusreform des Jahres 2007 hat eine bewährte Praxis auf der Grundlage eines Bundesgesetzes und bundeseinheitlich vereinbarter Verwaltungsvorschriften ein Ende gefunden.

Effective Police Supervision, 9th ed.

This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance edited by Mathieu Deflem addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order.

This collection of essays, published to mark the 20th anniversary of Realistic Evaluation, celebrates the work of Professor Nick Tilley and his significant influence on the fields of policing, crime reduction and evaluation.

"Nadie le explica al juez cómo valorar la prueba.

This book examines the representation and misrepresentation of queer people in true crime, addressing their status as both victims and perpetrators in actual crime, as well as how the media portrays them.

Why Don't You Just Talk to Him?

The current growth of incidents of public disorder around the world can be seen as symptomatic of major transformations in globalized society, government, and technology.

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Exploring the principles and values that should guide and limit the state's use of preventive techniques that involve coercion against the individual, this volume arises from a three-year study of Preventive Justice.

Rejecting traditional alternatives, Leo Zaibert offers an original and refreshing approach to the age-old problem of the justification of punishment.

How does justice for non-citizens look like?

Focused on the Australian punk and hardcore music scene, this book provides an innovative balance between the acknowledgement of harm and the celebration of pleasure in live music spaces.

This book explicates "e;bullying"e; as a concept and as a social and cultural phenomenon that has become a defining reality of the times in which we live.

This book explores the different types of police misconduct including the use of excessive force.

Giving the reader an in-depth understanding of DNA evidence in criminal practice, this text explains in clear language how DNA evidence is obtained and how it can be successfully challenged in court to minimize its impact or even dismiss it completely.

Focusing on the moment when social unrest takes hold of a populace, Law and Disorder offers a new account of sovereignty with an affective theory of public order and protest.

State Trials, Volume II (first published in 1972) contains cases concerned with witchcraft, the scandals of the prisons, and colonial administration gathered from the full edition of State Trials completed in 1826.

A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing examines public experiences of insecurity and the social impacts of security programmes that aim to address violence in Brazil.