Legal aspects of criminology

Now in its fifteenth edition, this well-respected and highly regarded book covers all areas of law and legal procedure which are of interest to police officers.

People convicted of crimes are subject to a criminal sentence, but they also face a host of other restrictive legal measures: Some are denied access to jobs, housing, welfare, the vote, or other goods.

Managing Intelligence: A Guide for Law Enforcement Professionals is designed to assist practitioners and agencies build an efficient system to gather and manage intelligence effectively and lawfully in line with the principles of intelligence-led policing.

Many cities, towns, and municipalities across the United States have criminal organizations operating within their jurisdictions.

Terrorism Awareness: Understanding the Threat and How You Can Protect Yourself provides readers a foundational understanding of the threats that face us every day.

This book considers the rapidly evolving, both legally and socially, nature of image-based abuse, for both minors and adults.

Bringing new research from true crime writers, scholars, and media practitioners around the world, this book offers fresh perspectives on how women read, write, and are portrayed in true crime stories across different platforms, including documentaries, podcasts, and TikToks.

Criminological Skills and Research for Beginners is a comprehensive and engaging guide to research methods in Criminology, and the skills required for academic success.

In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v.

Special constables are warranted officers retained within British constabularies.

Women's Criminalisation and Offending in Australia and New Zealand offers new research and analysis of women's offending and criminalisation in Australia and New Zealand from British settlement through to the late twentieth/early twenty-first centuries.

Criminology is at a crossroads.

Since the Second World War, international laws governing the conduct of war and the behaviour of soldiers on the field of battle have been of strong academic and legal interest.

This edited collection discusses the rule of law in the Amazon and the capabilities of the region's sovereign states to police their territory considering security matters.

The language of duress and necessity is found in crime, tort and contract.

While there are books that cover national security, intelligence collection, intelligence analysis, and various intelligence services, U.

Ports are the vital hubs of the maritime transport industry, and crucial to the flow of global trade.

This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved from the public arena to behind the prison wall.

Featuring in-depth interviews of attorneys, judges, and seasoned forensic experts from multiple disciplines including psychology, medicine, economics, history, and neuropsychology, The Art and Science of Expert Witness Testimony highlights and offers bridges for the areas where the needs and expectations of the courtroom collide with experts' communication habits developed over years of academic and professional training.

Failed and fragile states often govern through the criminalization of otherwise inconsequential or tolerated acts.

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

In 1990 when Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi published A General Theory of Crime, now often referred to as self control theory, it quickly became among the most discussed and researched perspectives in criminology.

Think Like a Terrorist to Combat Terrorism and Radicalization in Prison provides guidelines for hardening facilities, training staff, preparing for radicalized-terrorist inmates' incarceration, and monitoring these inmates after their release.

Provides a working definition of intelligence and a history of intelligence as practiced in the United States Offers past and recent case examples of intelligence successes, failures, and lessons learnedCovers intelligence writing, military intelligence, the intelligence cycle, and laws governing intelligenceIncludes the latest developments in Homeland Security as related to Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the intelligence community as a wholeExamines collections, analysis, counterintelligence, and covert operationsNew edition has been updated and includes material on new issues such as: WikiLeaks, ISIS, the Senate's report on CIA use of torture, the Ebola epidemic, and Russia's incursion into Ukraine

This book presents a synthesis of selected trends in the dynamics and structure of crime in Poland over the past 30 years, in the context of ongoing social transformations in the wider region.

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

In the years since 9/11, counter-terrorism law and policy has proliferated across the world.

Shortlisted for DSBA Law Book of the Year Award 2020Evidence in Criminal Trials is the first Irish textbook devoted exclusively to the subject of criminal evidence.

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

Binding Men tells stories about men, violence and law in late Victorian England.

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality.

This edited book explores prison masculinities, drawing from a wide range of international researchers to highlight how masculinities may divert from the "e;hypermasculine"e; or macho typology typically found in the prison masculinities literature.

Offering insights based on years of original research, Redefining Murder, Transforming Emotion: An Exploration of Forgiveness after Loss Due to Homicide investigates the ideas and experiences of individuals who have lost loved ones to homicide (co-victims) in order to advance our understanding of the emotional transformation of forgiveness.

Offering an interdisciplinary exploration of the complex relationships between disability, crime, and victimisation, this comprehensive handbook gathers insights from leading scholars across diverse fields, including disability studies, criminology, history, sociology, forensic psychology, forensic psychiatry, and the neurosciences, who have conducted extensive research in these areas.

Sadly, it is highly likely that psychological torture is committed by governments worldwide and yet, notwithstanding the serious moral questions that this disturbing and elusive concept raises, and research in the area so limited, there is no operational or legal definition.

This book builds on the popular GARDENER OF GOVERNANCE article, which enjoys amazing traction in the professional community globally and has been translated into 25+ languages.

Moving away from criminal behaviour can be fraught with difficulties.

Global Injustice and Crime Control places cross-border, cross-national and international crime and crime control within its wider context.

Blackstone's Emergency Planning, Crisis, and Disaster Management is a practical guide for those involved in all aspects of emergency preparedness, resilience, and response.

"e;It pulls no punches, shuns no controversial topic, and glosses over no issues or problems that beset America's law enforcement community in our day.

While there is extensive research published concerning juvenile justice and sentencing, most of the research focuses on individual and extra-legal factors, such as age, race, and gender, with scant attention paid to the impact of macro-level factors.

Drawing on qualitative research conducted with young people in New York, this volume highlights the unique experiences of children of incarcerated parents (COIP) and counters deficit-based narratives to consider how young people's voices can inform and improve educational support services.

What Works (and Doesn't) in Reducing Recidivism offers criminologists and students an evidence-based discussion of the latest trends in corrections.

Police Administration, 11th Edition, is a best-selling textbook that examines police administration from multiple perspectives: a systems perspective (emphasizing the interrelatedness among units and organizations); a traditional, structural perspective (administrative principles, management functions, and the importance of written guidelines); a human behavioral perspective (the human element in organizations); and a strategic management perspective (communications and information systems, performance evaluation, strategies and tactics, and prevailing and promising approaches to increasing effectiveness of police agencies).

Through theoretical and empirical examination of legal frameworks for court diversion, this book interrogates law's complicity in the debilitation of disabled people.

International criminal law and justice is a flourishing field which has led, in recent years, to new international criminal tribunals and new mechanisms for investigation and holding criminals to account.

Release from prison is matter of increasing interest throughout Europe.

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.

In recent years, drug use, illegal migration and human trafficking have all become more common in Asia, North America and Asia: the problems of organized crime and human trafficking are no longer confined to operating at the traditional regional level.