Legal aspects of criminology

Punishment in contemporary China has experienced dramatic shifts over the last seven decades or so.

Virtualization and Forensics: A Digital Forensic Investigators Guide to Virtual Environments offers an in-depth view into the world of virtualized environments and the implications they have on forensic investigations.

This unusual book tells vividly the story of children who have broken the law and their treatment from the time of King Athelstan to present day.

Based on the premise that the project of Western Modernity is a structuring element of our societies, Racism and Racial Surveillance explores in detail its legacies of coloniality and racialization that interfere in a subtle and perverse way in the current social, cultural and political systems.

This authoritative volume explores different perspectives on economic and social justice and the challenges presented by and within the criminal justice system.

Jessie Blackbourn is a research fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.

Offering carefully curated articles from the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL), this book features chapters from a truly international group of scholars.

Working with Autistic People in the Criminal Justice and Forensic Mental Health Systems: A Handbook for Practitioners is the first book to focus specifically on best practice for working with autistic people in criminal justice and forensic mental health settings.

Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infancy builds on Bjorn Salomonsson's experiences as a psychoanalytic consultant working with parents and their babies.

Persistent international conflicts, increasing inequality in many regions or the world, and acute environmental and climate-related threats to humanity call for a better understanding of the processes, actors and tools available to face the challenges of achieving global justice.

Crime and punishment are social and cultural manifestations; they are closely bound up with people's perceptions of morality, norms and values.

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

Exploring the role of food in enabling people with convictions to live a "e;good life"e;, this book examines the tangible ways in which growing food, cooking, and eating together has the potential to be both transformative and small steps incremental in facilitating desistance journeys for people with convictions.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the police role from within a broader philosophical context.

Every law enforcement patrol officer and investigator needs to understand both the tactical considerations of stopping and frisking a suspect, and the legal constraints that should govern that power.

Caring for Children with Special Healthcare Needs and Their Families: A Handbook for Healthcare Professionals provides a guide for addressing the challenges of providing optimal general and routine care for the special needs population.

The Death Penalty, Third Edition, brings together all the legal issues related to the death penalty and provides case briefs for the most important United States Supreme Court death penalty cases.

Enterprise Fortress is a comprehensive guide to building secure and resilient enterprise architectures, aimed at professionals navigating the complex world of cybersecurity.

Children's Respiratory Nursing is a comprehensive, patient-centred text providing up-to-date information about the contemporary management of children with respiratory conditions.

Skinheads go beyond the societal stereotype of hate mongers, bigots, and Neo-Nazis.

The words we use to talk about justice have an enormous impact on our everyday lives.

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

Who are the perpetrators of modern slavery?

This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons; known informally as 'star men', convicts assigned to the division were identified by a red star sewn to their uniforms.

This volume explores ethical aspects relating to claims for mitigation arising from culpable state action (or inaction).

We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt.

In the last 20 years, the related phenomena of honour-based violence and forced marriages have received increasing attention at the international and European level.

Diversion in youth justice is a subject of enduring interest.

In New Zealand, as well as in Australia, Canada and other comparable jurisdictions, Indigenous peoples comprise a significantly disproportionate percentage of the prison population.

This book presents an in-depth comparative study of sentencing practice for rape in six common law jurisdictions: England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa.

Corrections: A Critical Approach, 3rd edition confronts mass imprisonment in the United States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Crime Scene Photography, Third Edition, covers the general principles and concepts of photography, while also delving into the more practical elements and advanced concepts of forensic photography.

The policing of drugs is an intriguing, complex, and contentious domain that brings into sharp focus the multifaceted nature of the police role and has farreaching consequences for health, crime, and justice.

The process of controlling criminal investigations is a complex matter, yet it has frequently been minimized or neglected in police management publications.

Social Work and the Courts is a collection of important and cutting-edge court decisions in the field of human services, now in its third edition.

The book examines the regulation of insider dealing in the developed jurisdictions, using three of the G7 countries as guides with the aim of knowing how they have regulated insider trading and what lessons can be learnt from their failures and achievements.

This book identifies new formations of race, racism and ethnicity at the intersection of neoliberalism, security, urban governance and the law through a comparative, international analysis of police organizations and practices.

Focusing on juvenile transfer and disposition evaluations, this volume provides an up-to-date integration of current law, science, and practice with respect to juvenile risk assessment, treatment needs/amenability, and sophistication-maturity.

Since 9/11, the terms homeland security and terrorism have become firmly entrenched in our lexicon.

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

Technological developments move at lightening pace and can bring with them new possibilities for social harm.

With a fresh set of interviews exploring cross-cultural differences and similarities, Volume Three of this book includes lessons from practitioners in a diverse array of countries including Honduras, Japan, Lithuania, the Philippines, Thailand, the Slovak Republic, South Africa, and the United States.

This bestselling second edition introduces new case studies to illustrate concepts explained in the text and includes information about eliminating accidental causes of fires and investigating fatal fires.

A multidisciplinary empirical study of how juvenile justice standards were operationalised by the state and UNICEF in post-genocide Rwanda.

Globalisation has opened new avenues to corruption.

Effective Police Supervision, 9th ed.

Offender profiling is now viewed as an integral part of serious crime investigations by many law enforcement agencies across the world and continues to attract a high public and media profile.

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.

Professionalization has come to the field of threat management.