Legal aspects of criminology

This collective volume delves into the criminal responsibility of judges under authoritarian regimes, with case studies from Germany, Argentina, and Chile, examining their involvement in criminal human rights abuses and failures to protect victims from such crimes.

The Routledge Handbook on Crime and International Migration is concerned with the various relationships between migration, crime and victimization that have informed a wide criminological scholarship often driven by some of the original lines of inquiry of the Chicago School.

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

Protection Officer Training Manual, Fifth Edition is a guidebook that provides a comprehensive coverage of security practice.

In recent years, western societies have experienced a fundamental transformation in the way crime is understood and dealt with.

The ability of law enforcement agencies to manage and act upon intelligence is the key to countering terrorism.

20 ans plus tard, retour sur une opération qui a secoué le Québec tout entier

Le 19 septembre 2002, le sergent-détective Roger Ferland est affecté à une nouvelle enquête: il doit prouver qu'un réseau de prostitution juvénile a pris racine dans la ville de Québec.

This book explores firsthand accounts of the genocide in Darfur.

Gender, Homicide, and the Politics of Responsibility explores the competing and contradictory understandings of violence against women and men's responsibility.

This book traces the position of the United States of America on aggression, beginning with the Declaration of Independence up to 2020, covering the four years of the Trump Administration.

'Focused content, layout and price - Routledge competes and wins in relation to all of these factors' - Craig Lind, University of Sussex, UK 'The best value and best format books on the market.

Wildfire arson is often considered an impossible crime to solve.

Published in 2009, the first edition of Forensic Victimology introduced criminologists and criminal investigators to the idea of systematically gathering and examining victim information for the purposes of addressing investigative and forensic issues.

Giving the reader an in-depth understanding of DNA evidence in criminal practice, this text explains in clear language how DNA evidence is obtained and how it can be successfully challenged in court to minimize its impact or even dismiss it completely.

One of the most elusive pursuits in the study of organized crime is developing a definition, description, or conceptual model that captures its complexity, diversity, and ever-changing nature.

This book offers a critical examination of the ethical and moral challenges in conducting research about domestic abuse or sexual violence from the perspectives of studentpractitioners and novice researchers within various professional disciplines, offering rich insights based on the experiences of each author.

Well-selected and authoritative, Hart Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy to use.

This edited collection analyses, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the issue of corruption in commercial enterprise across different sectors and jurisdictions.

Lawless Youth (1947) is a book prepared under the auspices of the International Committee of the Howard League for Penal Reform during the Second World War, aiming for the day when peace could offer the opportunity for advance on the lines of justice and humanity.

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.

This collection presents international viewpoints on interdisciplinary problems that fall under the new and emerging field of neurojustice.

This book is concerned to explore the idea of imaginary penalities and to understand why the management of criminal justice and criminal justice systems has so often reached crisis point.

Build a strong foundation on the principles and procedures of modern forensic science.

This book presents a novel and insightful examination of gender-based violence, inviting readers to consider this topic from various perspectives.

This book offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to criminology in Ireland.

Trust, Power and Public Sector Leadership: A Relational Approach provides a critical theoretical treatment of trust in the realm of public management and governance.

The abuse of women and children transcends geographical boundaries as well as economic, cultural, religious, political, and social divisions.

Since the 1980s, MRI scanners have told us much about brain function and played an important role in the clinical diagnosis of a number of conditions - both in the brain and the rest of the body.

Preventing Prison Violence introduces the idea of 'prison ecologies' - a multi-layered perspective to understanding prison violence as a 'product' of human, environment (social and physical), systemic, and societal influences - and how an ecological approach is helpful to prevention efforts.

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This book makes an important contribution to police scholarship by focusing on the critical need for law enforcement personnel to receive education on chemical/biological/radiological/nuclear (CBRN) hazards.

The Northern Ireland peace process has been heralded by those involved as a successful example of transformation from a violent conflict to a peaceful society.

Existentialist Criminology captures an emerging interest in the value of existentialist thought and concepts for criminological work on crime, deviance, crime control, and criminal justice.

The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy.

Corporate Liability for Insider Trading examines the reasons why there have been no successful criminal prosecutions, or successful contested civil proceedings, against corporations for insider trading, and analyses the various rationales for prohibiting insider trading.

Within an international context in which the right to silence has long been regarded as sacrosanct, this book provides the first comprehensive, empirically-based analysis of the effects of curtailing the right to silence.

Police leaders possess a plethora of rich experiences and practical and theoretical knowledge that provides fascinating insights into the current state of policing around the world.

In September 2001, the world witnessed the horrific events of 9/11.

Adversarial Justice and Victims' Rights explores the extent to which reforms that offer victims enhanced rights to information and participation across England and Wales, Ireland and South Australia can address sexual assault victims' procedural and substantive justice concerns.

Written by one of the leading figures in biosocial criminology and evolutionary psychology, this work explores the tight relationship between criminality and indiscriminate sexuality within the framework of life history theory.

Justice in domestic courts is one of the most prominent aims of victims seeking to obtain accountability for human rights violations.

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.

This book examines the adequacy of laws in India as a response to sexual and gender-based violence against women.

The Crime Scene: A Visual Guide provides visual instruction on the correct way to process a crime scene.

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.

This book focuses on border deaths at sea.

The female spy has long exerted a strong grip on the popular imagination.

Briefs of Leading Cases in Law Enforcement, Tenth Edition, offers extensive updates on the leading Supreme Court cases impacting law enforcement in the United States, creating a must-have reference for police officers to stay up-to-date and have a strong understanding of the law and their function within it.

Life is characterised by movement, change and development, including transitions, losses and grief.