Legal aspects of criminology

Policing Women examines for the first time the changing historical landscape of women's experiences of their contact with the official state police between 1800 and 1950 in the Western world.

All the world's criminal justice systems need to undertake direct work with people who have come into their care or are under their supervision as a result of criminal offences.

An Introduction to the Soviet Legal System (1969) sets the main features of modern Soviet law against their background in Russian legal history and Marxist political thought.

Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime, criminality, criminology, and criminal justice policy and practice.

Homicide Case Studies is a first-of-its-kind text, offering readers more than 30 case studies drawn from real-world homicide cases that include the often-overlooked context and complexities faced by victims, offenders, law enforcement, attorneys, jurors, and correctional personnel.

A Criminologist's Guide to R: Crime by the Numbers introduces the programming language R and covers the necessary skills to conduct quantitative research in criminology.

Does the development of new technology cause an increase in the level of surveillance used by central government?

Analysing the representation of youth crime and justice-involved children in popular fictional films, this book explores how what we see on screen contributes to the perceptions of youth justice in society, policy, and practice.

Public Corruption in the United States provides a comprehensive view of public corruption, including discussion on its types, methods, trends, challenges, and overall impact.

The book examines some of the most important forms of normativity and the relation between facts and values in the context of criminological investigation.

Cyber-risks are moving targets and societal responses to combat cyber-victimization are often met by the distrust of young people.

The role played by legal professionals in the laundering of criminal proceeds generated by others has become a priority concern for authorities at national and international levels.

This groundbreaking book investigates the murky relationship between the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the British film industry, shedding new light on police-media relations.

In 2007, Estonia faced a series of cyberattacks on its cyber infrastructure, which caused widespread damage to the country's economy, politics, and security.

Examine an innovative strategy for fighting the war on drugs!

This book merges philosophical, psychoanalytical and legal perspectives to explore how spaces of justice are changing and the effect this has on the development of the administration of justice.

This book provides a stocktake and comparative socio-legal analysis of law enforcement cooperation strategies in four different regions of the world: the European Union (EU), North America, Greater China and Australasia.

This book uses the Canadian cannabis legalization experiment, analyzed in the historical context of wider drug criminalization in Canada and placed in an international perspective, to examine important lessons about the differential implementation of federal law in jurisdictions within federalist constitutional democracies.

This book explores the connection between ownership, on one hand, and immunity from legal responsibility, on the other.

Introducing the fundamentals of ethical theory, Ethics in Criminal Justice: In Search of the Truth, Seventh Edition, exposes the reader to the ways and means of making moral judgments by exploring the teachings of the great philosophers, sources of criminal justice ethics, and ethical issues in the criminal justice system.

This book uncovers the influence of racial and prejudicial stereotyping during police investigation of suspects from stigmatised communities.

This book analyzes the impact of the U.

Strategic Security will help security managers, and those aspiring to the position, to think strategically about their job, the culture of their workplace, and the nature of security planning and implementation.

This book establishes a new framework for prison design to promote the health and well-being of all prison users.

This book explores misdemeanor courts in the United States by focusing on the processing of misdemeanor crimes and the resultant consequences of conviction, such as loss of employment and housing, the imposition of significant fines, and loss of liberty-all amounting to the criminalization of poverty that happens in many U.

Gender Justice and Human Rights in International Development Assistance provides a critical analysis of how frameworks of gender equality play out in the field of international development assistance, at theoretical, international legislative and policy levels, donor and national policy levels and programme levels.

Something is missing in contemporary health and social care.

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is a practice-oriented approach to reduce the risk of offences such as burglary and fear of crime by modifying the built environment.

Effective Police Supervision, 9th ed.

New Private Law Theory is pluralist, comparative, application-oriented, transnational and reflects critical approaches.

Despite advances in DNA testing, forensics, and the investigative skills used by police, hundreds of crimes remain unsolved across Canada.

This study looks at contemporary psychological research and theory into criminal behaviour and considers the relationship between psychological and criminological theories.

The second volume of Sex Trafficking: International context and responseHuman trafficking and modern slavery have captured the imagination and attention of the international community.

Although the issue of offender decision-making pervades almost every discussion of crime and law enforcement, only a few comprehensive texts cover and integrate information about the role of decision-making in crime.

What role does law play in post-communist societies?

There are enormous challenges in establishing policing systems in young democracies.

Designed specifically with mental health professionals in mind, The Bilingual Counselor's Guide to Spanish is perfect for counselors interested in expanding their client base and language skill set.

Contemporary probation practice is developing rapidly and is become increasingly professionalized.

Berichte über schwere Gewalttaten auf den Titelseiten der Tageszeitungen zeichnen das finstere Bild eines scheinbar unaufhaltbaren Anstiegs der Gewaltkriminalität in Deutschland.

The Security Hippie is Barak Engel's second book.

Criminology is at a crossroads.

This book provides an original theoretically and empirically grounded analysis of regulatory enforcement activism in post-crisis periods and the ensuing regulatory interactions.

Social tensions between majority and minority populations often center on claims that minorities are largely responsible for crime and disorder.

In the pursuit of more muscle, enhanced strength, sustained endurance and idealised physiques, an increasing number of elite athletes, recreational sport enthusiasts and body-conscious gym-users are turning to performance and image enhancing drugs and substances (PIEDS).

Despite illustrious origins dating to the 1920s, qualitative crime research has long been overshadowed by quantitative inquiry.

This book explores the different types of police misconduct including the use of excessive force.

ADHD is one of the most commonly diagnosed behavioural disorders in children and young people.

It has long been argued that families play a crucial role in helping support prisoners during and beyond their time in prison.