Legal aspects of criminology

Arguing that law must be looked at holistically, this book investigates the 'hidden gender' of the so-called neutral or objective legal principles that structure the law addressing violence against women.

This text provides a clear and accessible introduction to the Investigatory Powers Act, a foundational piece of UK national security law.

The problem of social control has constituted the acid test for the entire issue of immigration and integration.

Many prosecutors and commentators have praised the victim provisions at the International Criminal Court (ICC) as 'justice for victims', which for the first time include participation, protection and reparations.

This book offers a clear, up-to-date, comprehensive, and theoretically informed introduction to criminal psychology, exploring how psychological explanations and approaches can be integrated with other perspectives drawn from evolutionary biology, neurobiology, sociology, and criminology.

This work explores the transformative potential of neuroscience in reshaping India's criminal justice system.

Scholarly exploration into how and why people stop offending (desistance from crime) has focused on the impact of internal and external factors in processes of desistance.

This book explores the practical and theoretical opportunities as well as the challenges raised by the expansion of transitional justice into new and 'aparadigmatic' cases.

Angesichts des hohen Stellenwertes, den sowohl das Phänomen des Abrechnungsbetrugs im Gesundheitswesen als auch die Forderung nach einer evidenzbasierten Kriminalprävention im öffentlichen Diskurs angenommen hat, beschäftigt sich die Arbeit erstmals mit Evaluationsfragestellungen im Zusammenhang mit der Tätigkeit der § 197a SGB V-Einheiten.

Here is an essential introductory guide on all aspects of law librarianship written especially for non-law librarians, library school students, and beginning law librarians.

This book explores how we can re-constitute our approach to analysing and empirically investigating the organisation of white-collar and corporate crimes, with a view to building fuller theoretical and empirical accounts.

In the space of three years, from 2009 to 2012 Bernie Madoff, Tom Petters and R.

Deterrence, Choice, and Crime explores the various dimensions of modern deterrence theory, relevant research, and practical applications.

Gangs have been heavily pathologized in the last several decades.

Millions in our nation are under some type of judicial sanction, with some individuals behind bars but the majority serving their sentences while living and working among us.

The core baseline of Intelligence-led Policing is the aim of increasing efficiency and quality of police work, with a focus on crime analysis and intelligence methods as tools for informed and objective decisions both when conducting targeted, specialized operations and when setting strategic priorities.

High levels of remand or pre-trial detention (PTD) is a matter of growing concern in many countries, and at a European level.

Exploring High-risk Offender Treatment and the Role of Music Therapy explores the treatment delivered to high-risk offenders with complex needs, focusing on sex and violent offenders.

A History of Rwanda: From the Monarchy to Post-genocidal Justice provides a complete history of Rwanda, from the precolonial abanyiginya kingdom, through the German and Belgian colonial periods and subsequent independence, and then the devastating 1994 genocide and reconstruction, right up to the modern day.

Today's high recidivism rates, combined with the rising costs of jails and prisons, are increasingly seen as problems that must be addressed on both moral and financial grounds.

Fundamentals of Forensic Science offers a complete look at the core topics of forensic science.

This book adds to global knowledge of pathways out of crime (desistance) by exploring the desistance narratives of 15 women with histories of imprisonment in Aotearoa New Zealand (10 of whom identify as Maori, New Zealand's Indigenous population).

There is a growing acknowledgment amongst professionals and academics that we need to develop new responses to crime.

A new installment of the series of Interviews with Global Leaders in Policing, Courts, and Prisons, this book expands upon the criminal justice coverage of earlier volumes, offering the voices of 14 lawyers from 13 diverse locales, including countries in Africa, North America, South America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.

Professionalization has come to the field of threat management.

Electronic disclosure of evidence is now an unavoidable aspect of litigation.

This book shows how international criminal courts have paid only limited and inconsistent attention to atrocity crimes affecting children.

How should the needs of victims of crime be met by the criminal justice system?

It has been over 50 years since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories.

From the social cleansing of cities through to indigenous land struggles at the frontline of extraction megaprojects, planetary urbanisation is a contested process that is radically shaping social life and the sustainability of human civilisation.

Encapsulating new policing developments under the Coalition, A Future for Policing in England and Wales examines the major reform proposals and reports brought in since May 2010, including the Winsor Report and the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review, and analyses what these changes mean for the future of policing in England and Wales.

This groundbreaking book investigates the murky relationship between the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the British film industry, shedding new light on police-media relations.

Legal Guide for Police: Constitutional Issues, 12th Edition, is a valuable tool for criminal justice students and law enforcement professionals, bringing them up-to-date with developments in the law of arrest, search and seizure, police authority to detain, questioning suspects and pretrial identification procedures, police power and its limitations, and civil liability of police officers and agencies.

The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods adopts a pluralistic, interdisciplinary approach to causality.

With contributions by internationally recognized specialists, this book, a perfect complement to courses in criminology and hate crime, provides a key resource for understanding how racism and homophobia work to produce violence.

Drawing on unique longitudinal community-level data in Brisbane, this book entwines current ecological theories of crime with key debates on the relevance of 'community' in contemporary urban life to examine the spatial and temporal relationships between community structure, community social capital, informal social control and the occurrence of crime and disorder.

This second edition of the Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety provides a completely revised and updated collection of essays focusing on the theory and practice of crime prevention and the creation of safer communities.

This text makes a primary and informed contribution to a subject that is under-researched in the UK - the suicide of those who work in the UK police service - by offering an analysis of UK case studies of officers and staff who have either completed suicide or experienced suicide ideation, and referring to the likely prime suicide precipitators in these situations.

This book brings together some of the world''s leading writers to engage with the most profound question in penology: why prison?

With contributions from international policing experts, this book is the first of its kind to bring together a broad range of scholarship on translational criminology and policing.

This book offers a scholarly and lively introduction to comparative criminal justice.

This book brings together an international group of experts to present cutting-edge psychological research on crime, policing and courts.

A classic in the field, Criminal Investigation: A Method for Reconstructing the Past, Eighth Edition, presents the fundamentals of criminal investigation and provides a sound method for reconstructing a crime based on three major sources of information: people, physical evidence, and records.

The use of illegal drugs is so common that a number of commentators now refer to the 'normalisation' of drug consumption.

The decade after 11 September 2001 saw the enactment of counter-terrorism laws around the world.

Now in its Third Edition, Practical Bomb Scene Investigation explores the investigative process that improvised explosive device (IED) specialists undertake at the scene of an explosion.

This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.

Native Americans are disproportionately represented as offenders in the U.