Legal aspects of criminology

The volume of studies into desistance has grown dramatically in recent years.

This book explores the theoretical contribution of Michel Foucault to the fields of criminology, law, justice and penology.

The security governance of South Africa has faced immense challenges amid post-apartheid constitutional and political transformations.

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

Eyewitness testimony is highly compelling in a criminal trial, and can have an indelible impact on jurors.

The consumption of drugs and alcohol, and the pleasures and problems arising from this consumption, can be understood as embedded and constitutive elements of social, family, and recreational life.

While the digital revolution has touched every aspect of law librarianship, perhaps nowhere has the effect been more profound than in the area of collection development.

The digitalization of companies is a recurrent topic of conversation for managers.

This book reports on research which investigates the perceptions of ethnic minorities concerning their treatment in the criminal courts.

Why the Police Should be Trained by Black People aligns scholarly and community efforts to address how Black people are policed.

Navigating financial crashes of the Late Middle Ages up to the present day and analysing them through the lenses of classical, positivist, functionalist and Marxist criminology, Dirty Money: On Financial Delinquency explores the growth of grey areas in the financial world and our understanding, or misunderstanding, of financial delinquency.

For too long, divorce and remarriage literature has focused only on the outcome in the personal lives of the divorcees during and after divorce.

This book incorporates many of the exciting debates in the social sciences and philosophy of knowledge concerning the issues of modernity and post-modernism.

The International Criminal Court was established in 2002 to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Formal and informal institutions structure our social interactions by giving rise to normative expectations and patterns of collective behaviour.

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.

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

Featuring contributions by distinguished scholars from ten countries, The Wiley Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Criminology provides students, scholars, and criminologists with a truly a global perspective on the theory and practice of criminology throughout the centuries and around the world.

This book is the first Australian study, based on extensive fieldwork, of the personal backgrounds and processes by which juveniles get drawn into risky and violent situations that culminate in murder.

This book examines the best language fair trial practices of the courts in arguably the most multilingual region of the world.

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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.

The Greek philosopher, Socrates, posed a guardian model that would protect his Athenian world, the custodes (watchmen), yet mused who would guard them but themselves.

A CISO is the ultimate guardian of an organization's digital assets.

Through an examination of Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men, this book demonstrates the ability of cinematic fictions, and other complex narrative fictions, to contribute to meeting the climate challenge by shaping the desires of audiences.

For too long, divorce and remarriage literature has focused only on the outcome in the personal lives of the divorcees during and after divorce.

Psychiatric Expert Testimony: Emerging Applications is for practitioners who need to be at the cutting edge of admissibility in court.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the presumption of innocence from both a practical and theoretical point of view.

This book explores how Circles of Support and Accountability can reduce sexual reoffending.

Racial Profiling: Using Propensity Score Matching to Examine Focal Concerns Theory combines theory and propensity score matching to offer readers a better understanding of racial profiling through traffic stop data concerning the race and gender of the driver.

All five contemporary practitioners of the death penalty in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)- Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam-- have performed executions on a regular basis over the past few decades.

The fields of settler colonial, decolonial, and postcolonial studies, as well as Critical Animal Studies are growing rapidly, but how do the implications of these endeavours intersect?

What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change.

This coursebook offers an exciting new approach to teaching criminal law to graduate and undergraduate students, and indeed to the general public.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illicit practice of football trafficking, focusing on the exploitation of underage African players being transferred to Europe.

In New Zealand, as well as in Australia, Canada and other comparable jurisdictions, Indigenous peoples comprise a significantly disproportionate percentage of the prison population.

This book investigates the devastating impacts of the Boko Haram terrorist campaign in Nigeria, reflecting on the group's historical context, organizational dynamics, and emerging trajectories.

This book explores the infiltration of Italian and Russian organised crime in the UK real estate market, assessing how vulnerable the UK is to these sorts of activities.

Security Controls Evaluation, Testing, and Assessment Handbook, Second Edition, provides a current and well-developed approach to evaluate and test IT security controls to prove they are functioning correctly.

Examine an innovative strategy for fighting the war on drugs!

This book is an in-depth, evidence-based guide to interviewing suspects with specific vulnerabilities.

Nightlife is a place of both real and imagined risk, a 'frontier' (Melbin 1978) where apparent freedom and transgression are closely linked, and where regulation of leisure and collective intoxication has been diffused throughout an expanding network of state and private actors.

Sentencing Policies and Practices in the 21st Century focuses on the evolution and consequences of sentencing policies and practices, with sentencing broadly defined to include plea bargaining, judicial and juror decision making, and alternatives to incarceration, including participation in problem-solving courts.

Despite high crime rates among men in the Caribbean, rising rates of violence against women in the region, and a significant number of Caribbean nationals incarcerated abroad due to drug smuggling, existing research has yet to offer explanations that are tailored to the unique Caribbean societies and the individuals in them.

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

In three parts, this volume in the AP-LS series explores the phenomena of captivity and risk management, guided and informed by the theory, method, and policy of psychological jurisprudence.

Genetic Testing and the Criminal Law is a unique international treatment of the dynamic and established criminal investigation technique of DNA testing.

A one-stop resource for understanding historical and contemporary perspectives on ideological extremism in law enforcement, as well as its wider impacts on American society.