Legal aspects of criminology

This book provides a nuanced and timely contribution to the question of vulnerability in police custody.

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.

Winner of the 2017 British Society of Criminology Book Prize The penal voluntary sector and the relationships between punishment and charity are more topical than ever before.

This book investigates the Youth Police Initiative (YPI) intervention with a comprehensive look at its effects in Boston as well as Brownsville, Brooklyn, a neighborhood that has both rich community networks as well as the highest crime rate in New York City.

Police interviews with suspects and witnesses provide some of the most significant evidence in criminal investigations.

Within the organization, the cyber security manager fulfils an important and policy-oriented role.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the current directions in social rehabilitation scholarship and research by bringing together the voices of legal scholars, criminal justice professionals, social scientists, and people directly impacted by criminal justice in a comparative, international, and interdisciplinary fashion.

This book, first published in 1990, takes a challenging look at the images constructed by the Press of women's political protest.

This book offers a phenomenological perspective on the criminal law debate on robots.

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.

Crime is undergoing a metamorphosis.

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A history of activism against the commercial sexual exploitation of American youth from the 1970s to 2015.

In a society where sexualized media has become background noise, we are frequently discouraged from frank and open discussions about sex and offered few tools for understanding sexual behaviors and sexualities that are perceived as being out of the norm.

Disneyization of Drug Use offers an innovative, ground-up understanding of the atypical patterns of illegal drug use that often permeate multi-day party zones such as nightlife tourist resorts and music festivals.

Forensic Pathology Case Studies features 8-13 case studies from the author's 19-year career as both a forensic pathologist and anthropologist in northern Italy.

This book explores, through the lens of the conflict in Syria, why international law and the United Nations have failed to halt conflict and massive human rights violations in many places around the world which has allowed tens of millions of people to be killed and hundreds of millions more to be harmed.

The partial defence of provocation is one of the most controversial doctrines within the criminal law.

The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections.

This book arises from a three-year study of Preventive Justice directed by Professor Andrew Ashworth and Professor Lucia Zedner at the University of Oxford.

Understanding the financial motivations behind white collar crime is often the key to the apprehension and successful prosecution of these individuals.

This work argues that current cryptocurrency regulation, particularly in the areas of enforcement and compliance, is inadequate.

This book addresses the various strategies that are available to police management, such as consolidation, regionalization, and amalgamation of police agencies; new public management (NPM); enhanced performance management; civilianization; and organizational restructuring.

Often examined separately, this timely volume provides a detailed exploration of the nexus between family violence and sexual offending.

The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies traces the growth of an important interdisciplinary field, its foundations, key debates and core concerns, as well as highlighting current and emerging issues and approaches and pointing to new directions for enquiry.

Road Traffic Offences are by far the most prosecuted type of criminal offence in theCourts of Ireland.

The definitive guide to analysis techniques for examining the geography of crime Understanding Crime: Analyzing the Geography of Crime delves into both theory and technique to explain the geographic analysis of crime.

In recent years, in the context of the War on Terror and globalization, there has been an increased interest in terrorism and organized crime in academia, yet historical research into such phenomena is relatively scarce.

Trafficking Culture outlines current research and thinking on the illicit market in antiquities.

Handbook of Terrorist and Insurgent Groups: A Global Survey of Threats, Tactics, and Characteristics examines the most current and significant terrorist and insurgent groups around the world.

Policing is a highly pragmatic occupation.

What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change.

Risk, Power and the State addresses how power is exercised in and by contemporary state organisations.

Organised Sexual Abuse offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation of this phenomenon.

In mapping out the field of human rights for those studying and researching within both humanities and social science disciplines, the Handbook of Human Rights not only provides a solid foundation for the reader who wants to learn the basic parameters of the field, but also promotes new thinking and frameworks for the study of human rights in the twenty-first century.

This edited collection sheds light on the evolution of corporate financial crime, exploring a myriad of offenses ranging from money laundering and fraud to market manipulation and bribery.

Global Injustice and Crime Control places cross-border, cross-national and international crime and crime control within its wider context.

Through one coherent retributivist vision of the criminal law, this book explores under examined problems within criminal law theory.

This book presents a comparative study of desistance from crime by analysing and comparing the narratives of English and French desisters.

Evidence: Law and Context explains the key concepts of evidence law in England and Wales clearly and concisely, set against the backdrop of the broader political and theoretical contexts.

This book explores the nature of employee-on-youth misconduct, its extent, its consequences, factors that increase its occurrence, and potential solutions to the problem.

This book addresses six areas of policing: performance management, professional and academic partnerships, preventing and fighting crime and terrorism, immigrant and multicultural populations, policing the police, and cyber-security.

This book brings together internationally renowned academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines who, in a variety of ways, seek to understand the legal, conceptual and practical consequences of parental imprisonment through a children's rights lens.

Blackstone's Emergency Planning, Crisis, and Disaster Management is a practical guide for those involved in all aspects of emergency preparedness, resilience, and response.

An attention to the 'fear of crime' has found its way into governmental interventions in crime prevention and into popular discourse with many newspapers, local government and the like conducting their own fear of crime surveys.

The words we use to talk about justice have an enormous impact on our everyday lives.

Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries and antipodes.

Preventing Sexual Harm provides an overview of current criminal justice strategies for tackling sexual violence, and highlights existing positive criminological approaches that could help prevent sexual abuse and harm.

The Criminalisation and Exploitation of Children in Care explores the results of a recent qualitative study, which focused on multi-agency responses to children and young people in residential and foster care who were at risk of criminalisation and/or exploitation and abuse.

In an era where digital security transcends mere convenience to become a pivotal aspect of our daily lives, Spies in the Bits and Bytes: The Art of Cyber Threat Intelligence by Dr.