Legal aspects of criminology

In a society where sexualized media has become background noise, we are frequently discouraged from frank and open discussions about sex and offered few tools for understanding sexual behaviors and sexualities that are perceived as being out of the norm.

Even in multicultural North America, few whites, blacks, or Hispanics have extensive experience or understanding of Asian culture.

Although restorative justice is probably one of the most talked about topics in contemporary criminology, little has been written about how community involvement in restorative justice translates into practice.

Justice is one of the most debated and reinterpreted of concepts within the fields of law, criminology and criminal justice.

There are many histories of the police as a law-enforcement institution, but no genealogy of the police as a form of power.

The Law and Practice of Extradition provides an in-depth overview of extradition law and practice, providing students with an understanding of how key elements have been shaped by the state, the fugitive and the international community.

Do all you can to minimize dangerous behaviors to benefit communities, employees, and organizations!

This text is an authoritative analysis of current services for children and young people in the UK.

This book is a unique and original examination of borders and bordering practices in the Western Balkans prior to, during, and after the migrant "e;crisis"e; of the 2010s.

This book introduces a dynamic perspective to study white-collar crime.

This edited volume addresses the broader aspects of the political and social landscape, human rights violations, accountability and advocacy efforts, and humanitarian challenges faced by the Rohingya from Myanmar.

Unique in its focus, this book provides an evidence-based framework for assessing work-related neurological and psychological injuries.

With contributions by internationally recognized specialists, this book, a perfect complement to courses in criminology and hate crime, provides a key resource for understanding how racism and homophobia work to produce violence.

Formal and informal institutions structure our social interactions by giving rise to normative expectations and patterns of collective behaviour.

Delinquency Theories: Appraisals and applications provides a fulsome and accessible overview of contemporary theories of juvenile delinquency.

This book is an ambitious attempt to map the main changes in the criminal justice system in the Victorian period through to the twentieth century.

This volume provides an important and exciting contribution to the knowledge on punishment across Europe.

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.

"e;Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box is a unique book in the fiction department.

This book assesses the role of social justice in legal scholarship and its potential future development by focusing upon the 'leading works' of the discipline.

Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook: Practice and Procedure is a companion volume to the successful Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook: Law.

Policing is a highly pragmatic occupation.

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

Scientific Protocols for Fire Investigation, Third Edition focuses on the practical application of fundamental scientific principles to determine the causes of fires.

This book shares our journey with restorative practice and provides insight into how we developed a programme that impacts school culture - the Builders Project.

This is a book about the legal fiction that sometimes we know what we don't.

Providing a comprehensive yet concise guide for trainee doctors, neonatal nurses and midwives, Essential Neonatal Medicine continues to be an indispensable resource that combines the depth and breadth of a textbook with the efficiency of a revision guide.

Cisco IOS (the software that runs the vast majority of Cisco routers and all Cisco network switches) is the dominant routing platform on the Internet and corporate networks.

Unlocking Criminal Law will help you grasp the main concepts of the subject with ease.

This book explores how restorative justice is used and what its potential benefits are in situations where the state has been either explicitly or implicitly involved in human rights abuses.

This book brings to life the major theories of crime and deviance by presenting detailed profiles that help readers differentiate each theory and its major propositions by better understanding how, when, and by whom the theory was formed.

Drawing on original research on community-based alternatives to offender rehabilitation, this book provides an up-to-date depiction of the challenges faced by front-line workers at the interface between criminal justice and welfare systems striving to address needs and provide multifaceted solutions.

Every day, newspapers, magazines, web sites, and social media feature articles about the prevalence of crime.

In the contemporary fascination with images of crime, violence gets under our skin and keeps us enthralled.

Depression is amorphous.

Digital Forensics Trial Graphics: Teaching the Jury Through Effective Use of Visuals helps digital forensic practitioners explain complex technical material to laypeople (i.

The fields of settler colonial, decolonial, and postcolonial studies, as well as Critical Animal Studies are growing rapidly, but how do the implications of these endeavours intersect?

Recalibrating Juvenile Detention chronicles the lessons learned from the 2007 to 2015 landmark US District Court-ordered reform of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) in Illinois, following years of litigation by the ACLU about egregious and unconstitutional conditions of confinement.

This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight.

Demonstrating that public health and prevention program development is as much art as science, this book brings together expert program developers to offer practical guidance and principles in developing effective behavior-change curricula.

This book provides and accessible text and critical analysis of the concepts and delivery of community justice, a focal point in contemporary criminal justice.

Bioarchaeology of Marginalized People amplifies the voices of marginalized or powerless individuals.

The Youth Court Guide is the definitive legal handbook for practitioners involved in the youth court.

Essential Nursing Care for Children and Young People is the definitive guide for all nursing and healthcare students and professionals caring for children and young people.

Contemporary terrorism is a global phenomenon requiring a globalized response.

Young offenders given custodial sentences in youth institutions constitute an important group in the context of crime prevention research, given that offenders within this group are at high risk of reoffending or continuing with a criminal career into adulthood.

Most people assume that criminal offenders have only been convicted of a single crime.

In three parts, this volume in the AP-LS series explores the phenomena of captivity and risk management, guided and informed by the theory, method, and policy of psychological jurisprudence.

The 22nd Annual Meeting of the International Police Executive Symposium was held in August 2012 at the United Nations Plaza in New York.

Bringing together a variety of diverse international contributors from the Convict Criminology community, Convict Criminology for the Future surveys the historical roots of Convict Criminology, the current challenges experienced by formerly incarcerated people, and future directions for the field.