Legal aspects of criminology

Police-citizen relations are in the public spotlight following outbursts of anger and violence.

Extremely gender variant children and adolescents (minors), increasingly referred to as 'trans' or 'transgender children,' are small in number.

It has become somewhat axiomatic to refer to the police as the 'gatekeepers' of the criminal justice system and thus as a mechanism for the provision of justice.

How did Canadian border officers come to think of themselves as a "e;police of the border"e;?

This book offers a zemiological approach for understanding border control practices, state power, and their social impact.

Forensic Firearm Examination provides the reader with a thorough understanding of theory, application, and process of firearm comparison.

Correctional officers face considerable stress, risk, and danger that lead to poor physical and mental health outcomes.

Paediatric Neurosurgery for Nurses: Evidence-based care for children and their families provides accessible and up-to-date information for nurses working in paediatric neurosurgery.

Transitional Justice in Rwanda: Accountability for Atrocity comprehensively analyzes the full range of the transitional justice processes undertaken for the Rwandan genocide.

The Black Lives Matter movement has exposed the state violence and social devaluation that Black populations continue to suffer.

Diagnose and treat shaken baby syndrome with advice from experts in the field!

Unlike other textbooks on the subject, Criminal Justice Policy and Planning: Planned Change, Fifth Edition, presents a comprehensive and structured account of the process of administering planned change in the criminal justice system.

Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence: Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems offers a chapter-by-chapter introductory survey of all aspects of emotional development from infancy to adolescence, from delight, surprise and love to anger, distress and fear.

Analyzing what is known about violence against women, this book centers on the contrast between the U.

This book offers a zemiological approach for understanding border control practices, state power, and their social impact.

Handbook on Punishment Decisions: Locations of Disparity provides a comprehensive assessment of the current knowledge on sites of disparity in punishment decision-making.

Focusing on the case study of Timor Leste, this book presents the New Subsistence State as a conceptual tool for understanding governance challenges in countries characterised by subsistence economic and social relations.

Since the last edition of this book was written more than a decade ago, cybercrime has evolved.

Methodologies and Challenges in Forensic Linguistic Casework Discover more about Forensic Linguistics, a fascinating cross-disciplinary field from an international team of renowned contributors Methodologies and Challenges in Forensic Linguistic Casework provides an overview of the range of forensic linguistic casework typically found in investigative and judicial contexts.

More than a hundred years have passed since the adoption of the first prohibitionist laws on drugs.

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 father's account of the story that captivated America, the murder of his daughter, reporter Alison Parker, on live television, and his inspiring fight for commonsense gun laws in the aftermath.

Turkey hosts more refugees than any other country in the world, with forced migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and other countries converging, either with hopes to settle in Turkey or to continue onwards to the European Union (EU).

This book presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as individuals under justice system supervision, and as professionals in the field.

The Advanced Forensic Science Series grew out of the recommendations from the 2009 NAS Report: "e;Strengthening Forensic Science: A Path Forward.

Power: Police Officer Wellness, Ethics, and Resilience collectively presents the numerous psychic wounds experienced by peace officers in the line of duty, including compassion fatigue, moral injury, PTSD, operational stress injury, organizational and operational stress, and loss.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Free Market Criminal Justice explains how faith in democratic politics and free markets has undermined the rule of law in US criminal process.

It is essential for those employed within the justice system to be able to competently and confidently work at the borders between ethics and the law.

The best storytellers and presenters know that a picture is worth a thousand words.

To what extent is restorative justice able to 'restore' the harm suffered by victims of crimes of interpersonal violence?

The importance of addressing security issues in communication devices, networks, and computing models in Industry 5.

This book systematically investigates the capital punishment of girls and women in one jurisdiction in the United States over nearly four centuries.

This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on femicide, using Israel as an illuminating case study, given its diverse communities and common-law-based legal system.

Although the negative consequences of rising incarceration rates have been well-established, criminological research has largely neglected to document psychological, social, and behavioral changes that occur during periods of incarceration.

Preterm birth is a significant cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity, with a devastating impact on families.

Since the Second World War, the international community has sought to prevent the repetition of destructive far-right forces by establishing institutions such as the United Nations and by adopting documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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.

Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment addresses the reasons why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated or resettled back into the community.

Understanding Victimology: An Active-Learning Approach explains what the field of victimology is-including its major theoretical perspectives and research methods-and provides insight into the dynamics of various offline and online crimes from the victims' vantage point.

Cybercrime Case Presentation is a "e;first look"e; excerpt from Brett Shavers' new Syngress book, Placing the Suspect Behind the Keyboard.

Understanding Police Operational Performance provides a roadmap for police agencies to implement performance-improvement strategies that work.

The process of investigation is dynamic and fluid.

Providing academic insights, reflections, and practical guidance on ethically conducting qualitative criminological research, this book emphasizes real-life examples to navigate research risks, boundaries, and emotions, while spotlighting reflexivity as a pivotal tool for qualitative inquiries, serving as an ethical compass throughout the research process.

Giving victims of crime a greater role in the criminal justice system is a relatively recent development, a trend likely to continue and increase in the foreseeable future.

Quantitative Anthropology: A Workbook contributes an anthropological perspective to quantitative methods.

In the aftermath of Martinson's 1974 "e;nothing works"e; doctrine, scholars have made a concerted effort to develop an evidence-based corrections theory and practice to show "e;what works"e; to change offenders.