Winner of the 2017 British Society of Criminology Book Prize The penal voluntary sector and the relationships between punishment and charity are more topical than ever before.
Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel illuminates the psychological, emotional, behavioral, and spiritual impact of police work on police officers, administrators, emergency communicators, and their families.
Criminal Justice in the United States is in the midst of momentous changes: an era of low crime rates not seen since the 1960s, and a variety of budget crunches also exerting profound impacts on the system.
Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in Brazil discusses how penal abolitionism provides fundamental theoretical bases and practical references for the construction of a transformative justice in Brazil, supporting the claim that justice is a socially constructed conception and that victims do not unanimously stand for punishment.
Psychology and Criminal Justice covers the ways that psychology intersects with the criminal justice system, from explaining criminal behavior to helping improve the three criminal justice pillars of policing, courts, and corrections.
Brisante Fälle, Krisen, Skandale und vielfältige Diskussionen – Das Verhältnis von Staatsanwaltschaft und Medien ist seit über 100 Jahren spannungsgeladen und heute mehr denn je komplex.
The first book about Guided Participation written for nursesThis authoritative publication delivers an in-depth examination of Guided Participation (GP), a dynamic process of teaching and learning that parents and guardians have used for generations to help their charges become self-reliant.
The Routledge Handbook on Global Community Corrections assesses and analyzes the status of community corrections systems around the world, highlighting inter-regional and intra-regional variations in their design, implementation, and impact on policy and practice.
Bringing together cutting edge and diverse research from international and interdisciplinary perspectives, this book initiates and shapes conversations about transgender people within the criminal justice system.
Translated by Kayla Toohy and Boniface NoyongoyoThis translation of Les Femmes Homicides, by Praskov'ia Tarnovskaia, or Pauline Tarnowsky as her name has been Westernized, presents an important historical work in English for the first time.
Transatlantic policing is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy, epitomised by public responses to the murders of George Floyd and Sarah Everard during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Understanding the financial motivations behind white collar crime is often the key to the apprehension and successful prosecution of these individuals.
This book introduces readers to the concept of parental alienation (PA), a belief system that is used with increasing frequency in judicial child custody and parenting plan decisions.
The Routledge Handbook on Global Community Corrections assesses and analyzes the status of community corrections systems around the world, highlighting inter-regional and intra-regional variations in their design, implementation, and impact on policy and practice.
This book is a comprehensive guide to setting up, running and growing a successful private therapy practice that resonates with your values and professional goals.
Victimology, Tenth Edition, covers the scope of crime victims' suffering in the US, offering a history of victims and the measurement of victimization, an explanation of the victim's role in the criminal justice process, and a recounting of the issues crime victims face as a result of crime and involvement in the criminal justice process.
Outlining an original analysis of the political dimension of restorative justice, this book seeks both to enhance the critical comprehension of this phenomenon and to forge new tools for acting politically through restorative justice, inviting restorative justice scholars, practitioners and advocates to become a radical political movement.
In this book, Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson turn their well-polished therapy microscopes onto the subjects of lying, falsehood, deceit, and the loss of trust in the counseling room.
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health considers the role of forgiveness in mental life, concerning both forgiving and being forgiven.
Miscarriages of justice are a regular occurrence in the criminal justice system, which is characterized by government agencies that are understaffed, underfunded, and undertrained across the board.
By focusing on the experiences of users, gamers, and audiences inside one of the world's largest gaming communities (Xbox Live), this book provides an overview of the landscape, architecture, and socio-technical structure of console gaming.
Este libro trata lo relativo a las denuncias por abusos de autoridad cometidos contra soldados conscriptos durante la guerra de Malvinas (1982), a los que determinada postura político- jurídica, pretende encuadrar como torturas caracterizables como delitos de lesa humanidad, o bien como crímenes de guerra.
El presente trabajo pretende exponer y reflexionar sobre una situación crítica, que se pone de manifiesto en el desarrollo de algunos procesos penales en Argentina, en los que el lapso de tiempo existente entre la comisión de los hechos y la sentencia firme, es extremadamente extenso.
Los cuatro fallos de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación sobre delitos de lesa humanidad, seleccionados por la trascendencia de las cuestiones discutidas en ellos, permiten a los autores considerar las diversas posiciones asumidas por los jueces que la integran, tanto en sus votos mayoritarios como en los disidentes, en un por demás interesante contrapunto.
El autor es Licenciado en Psicología egresado en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, magíster en Metodología de Investigación de la Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral y Perito Oficial en el Poder Judicial de la Provincia de Santa Cruz, además de poseer una amplia experiencia tanto en el Área Clínica como en el Área Forense.
Este libro constituye un esfuerzo por mostrar la ineptitud de los enfoques tradicionales de la criminología y por delinear los elementos principales de una criminología alternativa.
La inminente entrada en vigencia de la Ley 1952 de 2019,prevista para mediados del año 2021, ha incrementado las discusiones en lacomunidad jurídica del derecho disciplinario.
