Legal aspects of criminology

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality.

This is the first book to look at women in policing in the mainland of the People's Republic of China.

This book argues that South Africa is haunted by the spectre of reparation.

Based on Francesca Happe's best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary psychological theories about autism.

As politicians, public bodies and non-Governmental organisations continue to profess an interest in making peace with the past, this highly original study explores the motivation, significance and legacy of 'making public' experiences of state violence in Northern Ireland.

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.

Changing attitudes towards cannabis across Europe are challenging old convictions of drug prohibition and making space for new approaches to the drug.

This book discusses private policing conducted by fraud examiners and financial crime specialists when there is suspicion of white-collar crime.

This edited collection illuminates the weaknesses and strengths of crime reporting across a wide range of countries, with a focus on democratic countries in which the police bear some accountability to citizens.

Our changing climate and more extreme weather events have dramatically increased the number and severity of floods across the world.

Criminalization is a new series arising from an interdisciplinary investigation into the issue of criminalization, focussing on the principles and goals that should guide decisions about what kinds of conduct are to be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take.

This book offers a multifaceted look at Northeast India and the customs and traditions that underpin its legal framework.

Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere draws together and critically appraises a raft of emerging research around mindfulness in healthcare, looking especially at its relevance to pregnancy and childbirth.

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.

First published in 1981, this book reassesses the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists living in Boston in 1920.

Clear and accessible in style, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to criminal justice and forensic mental health and the ways in which they intersect.

This book offers a history of crime and the criminal justice system in America, written particularly for students of criminal justice and those interested in the history of crime and punishment.

Technology and digitization are a great social good.

Commentators have shown how a 'culture of security' ushered in after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 has involved exceptional legal measures and increased recourse to secrecy on the basis of protecting public safety and safeguarding national security.

Fire Investigation covers the concepts and theories used to determine a specfic fire has been deliberately or accidentally set.

The Soviet Union comprehensively governed the mobility of its citizens by barring emigration and strictly regulating internal migration.

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

Research and theorizing on criminal decision making has not kept pace with recent developments in other fields of human decision making.

The importance of play in children's health and care services, both as a form of therapy and as a distraction, is often overlooked.

Using African epistemologies to understand contributing social and cultural factors around African school violence, this book investigates various kinds of school-based violence suffered by learners and teachers in order to further research into the impact of educational interventions on crime prevention in African schools.

This book explores the profound impact of peer support within the bleak landscape of incarceration.

Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society's most vulnerable groups.

This edited text draws together the insights of numerous worldwide eminent academics to evaluate the condition of predictive policing and artificial intelligence (AI) as interlocked policy areas.

Researching Prisons provides an overview of the processes, practices, and challenges involved in undertaking prison research.

A critical, theoretical, and empirical examination of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) is long overdue.

This updated tenth edition covers all aspects of prisoners' rights, including an overview of the judicial system and constitutional law and explanation of specific constitutional issues regarding correctional populations.

Das Ziel, Verurteilte wieder in die Gesellschaft einzugliedern, ist so alt wie der moderne Strafvollzug selbst.

This volume takes stock of contemporary perspectives on gender and crime.

This book systematically defends an account of the institution of legal punishment that draws on both retributive and crime-prevention thinking.

This book presents a Foucauldian problematisation analysis of crime, with a particular focus on the twentieth century.

In the minds of the general public, young people and crime are intrinsically linked; wide-spread belief persists that such activities are a result of the 'permissive 1960s' and the changing face of the traditional nuclear family.

The toll of America's gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost-more than 35,000 each year.

Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) have emerged as a major phenomenon within the education and health care systems.

This book presents a varied and critical picture of how the Arab Spring demands a re-examination and re-conceptualization of issues of transitional justice.

Literary Theory and Criminology demonstrates the significance of contemporary literary theory to the discipline of criminology, particularly to those criminologists who are primarily concerned with questions of power, inequality, and harm.

Risk assessment and risk management are top of every mental health organisation's agenda.

Esta compilación de nueve capítulos de investigación sobre los espacios de encierro, detención, castigo y trabajo penado en la historia de Colombia ofrece una mirada de larguísima duración en nuestro territorio, desde las primeras fundaciones de Tierra Firme, pasando por el Virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada, hasta la República de Colombia en el siglo XX.

The Detective's Handbook details the vital information law enforcement officers need to know to become better detectives.

Understanding the politics of security in city-regions is increasingly important for the study of contemporary policing.

236 pages, 666 images, 21 contributorsIn cases of sexual assault, it is important that investigators and care providers be able to respond quickly and appropriately in examining survivors, not only to ensure their health and safety but also to preserve any physical evidence left by the perpetrator.

Handbook of Forensic Mental Health Services focuses on assessment, treatment, and policy issues regarding juveniles and adults in the criminal and civil systems.

This ground-breaking new volume reviews and extends theory and research on the psychology of justice in social contexts, exploring the dynamics of fairness judgments and their consequences.

This book presents a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study into the various goals assigned to international criminal trials.

Bio-Privacy: Privacy Regulations and the Challenge of Biometrics provides an in-depth consideration of the legal issues posed by the use of biometric technology.