Legal aspects of criminology

This book, first published in 1984, is a selective, annotated bibliography on women and deviance that includes historical, cross cultural, sociological, psychological, political, legal, philosophical, and social policy perspectives.

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

The Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime brings together original and international state of the art contributions of theoretical, empirical, policy-related scholarship on the intersection of perceptions of crime, victimisation, vulnerability and risk.

Women, Crime and Criminal Justice is the winner of the Division of International Criminology's Distinguished Book Award 2014 and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences International Section's 2015 Outstanding Book Award and the first fully internationalised book to focus on women as offenders, victims and justice professionals.

What is the 'rule of law'?

This book is concerned to explore the changing role of the Parole Board across the range of its responsibilities, including the prediction of risk and deciding on the release (or continued detention) of the growing number of recalled prisoners and of those subject to indeterminate sentences.

For over two centuries, psychopathy has stood as perhaps the most formidable risk factor for antisocial behavior, crime, and violence.

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

This study examines the ways in which the moral community is "e;talked into being"e; in relation to crime, and the objects of concern that typically occupy its attention.

The Routledge Handbook of Anti-Corruption Research and Practice takes a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach to provide a comprehensive exploration of the processes, conditions, and activities that hold the potential to control corruption.

The leading textbook on sentencing, and the only one to integrate theory and empirical research with legislation, guidelines and case law.

Third Sector Organizations in Sex Work and Prostitution is about sex work and prostitution third sector organizations (TSOs): non-governmental and non-profit organizations that provide support services to, and advocate for the well-being of people operating in the sex industries.

First published in 1977, Angel Face documents the penal life of Walter Probyn, who spent 30 out of 44 years in prison and escaped 15 times.

This book examines how the European Court of Human Rights approaches the matter of evidence, and how its judgments affect domestic law.

Policing and Human Rights analyses the implementation of human rights standards, tracing them from the nodal points of their production in Geneva, through the board rooms of national police management and training facilities, to the streets of downtown Johannesburg.

There is no question that more police officers die from suicide than those killed in the line of duty.

Millions of people have been victimized by the actions and omissions of states and governments.

This book is an empirically grounded, critical engagement with the politics of immigration detention and deportation.

In the 2016 Hamlyn Lectures, Chief Justice of New Zealand, Dame Sian Elias critiques recent changes in criminal justice systems.

Perhaps more than any other scholar, Michael Moore has argued that there are deep and necessary connections between metaphysics, morality, and law.

This authoritative volume explores different perspectives on economic and social justice and the challenges presented by and within the criminal justice system.

This monograph illuminates the connections between juvenile defense policies and the racially disparate impact of the juvenile justice system.

Since the Second World War, international laws governing the conduct of war and the behaviour of soldiers on the field of battle have been of strong academic and legal interest.

Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains unprecedentedly high.

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.

The term judicial opinion can be a misnomer as rarely are judges true feelings on legal issues and the work they do made available to the public.

Restorative justice is one of the most talked about developments in the field of crime and justice.

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

Convicted sex offenders released from custody at the end of their criminal sentences pose a risk for re-offense.

This essential text introduces criminal justice students to the topics of stress and wellness in personal and professional pursuits and provides them with the tools they will need to identify the signs of stress in their own lives and the lives of others.

This book explores innovative approaches to using and operating within and around both criminal law and civil law in the detection, investigation, and restitution of illicit cultural property.

This book explores how the unique historical development of Islamic Shari'a criminal law alongside English common law in northern Nigeria has created a hybridised criminal legal system through a pluralist dynamic of mutual accommodation.

Care Planning in Children and Young People's Nursing addresses a selection of the most common concerns that arise when planning care for infants, children and young people within the hospital and community setting.

The Routledge Handbook of Far-Right Extremism in Europe is a timely and important study of the far and extreme right-wing phenomenon across a broad spectrum of European countries, and in relation to a selected list of core areas and topics such as anti-gender, identitarian politics, hooliganism, and protest mobilisation.

Our understanding of how pain in early life differs to that in maturity is continuing to increase and develop, using a combination of approaches from basic science, clinical science, and implementation science.

Child Sexual Abuse: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact, and Management covers the issue of child sexual abuse from several viewpoints.

Provides a working definition of intelligence and a history of intelligence as practiced in the United States Offers past and recent case examples of intelligence successes, failures, and lessons learnedCovers intelligence writing, military intelligence, the intelligence cycle, and laws governing intelligenceIncludes the latest developments in Homeland Security as related to Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the intelligence community as a wholeExamines collections, analysis, counterintelligence, and covert operationsNew edition has been updated and includes material on new issues such as: WikiLeaks, ISIS, the Senate's report on CIA use of torture, the Ebola epidemic, and Russia's incursion into Ukraine

Developing Nursing Practice with Children and Young People explores the context of children s nursing in light of recent policy changes, and looks at contemporary issues and emerging roles within the field.

This volume speaks to the fundamental issues inherent in trying to understand the who-what-where-and-whys of corporate crime.

Revised and updated in light of the reissued Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance and the Children's Act (2004), this concise guide will help health and allied professionals negotiate the complexities of child protection practice, with the aim of preventing abuse and neglect and protecting children from further harm once it has occurred.

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 addresses the various forms of deviance and criminality found within the conventional food system.

Effective Threat Management: A Primer presents the ABCs for identifying, assessing, and managing potentially violent individuals.

In this reasoned exploration of justice, retribution, and redemption, the champion of the new monastic movement, popular speaker, and author of the bestselling The Irresistible Revolution offers a powerful and persuasive appeal for the abolition of the death penalty.