Criminal justice law

This book applies a structural model of convenience theory to suspected crime and a maturity model to investigation reports.

Based on Francesca Happe's best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary psychological theories about autism.

This book investigates the Youth Police Initiative (YPI) intervention with a comprehensive look at its effects in Boston as well as Brownsville, Brooklyn, a neighborhood that has both rich community networks as well as the highest crime rate in New York City.

This innovative new book recognises that, while criminal justice studies is a core component of all criminology/criminal justice undergraduate degrees, it can be a confusing, overwhelming and a relatively dry topic despite its importance.

On September 21, 2011, the controversial execution of Georgia inmate Troy Davis, who spent twenty years on death row for a crime he most likely did not commit, revealed the complexity of death penalty trials, the flaws in America's justice system, and the rift between those who are for or against the death penalty.

This book examines the structures that support the policing organisation internally and externally, including its partners within the criminal justice system.

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship between the criminal justice system and the community in the USA.

Depression is amorphous.

Should public opinion determine--or even influence--sentencing policy and practice?

This book answers two basic but under-appreciated questions: first, how does the American criminal justice system address a defendant's family status?

This edited collection of contributions explores non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationality among Autistic people.

Winner of the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year 2011 (Category: Maternal And Child Health) Building on children's natural inclinations to pretend and reenact, play therapy is widely used in the treatment of psychological problems in childhood.

Discover how to best provide effective mental health treatments for criminal offenders Prisons and jails are increasingly being filled with inmates who suffer from mental illness and need treatment.

This book provides a socio-legal examination of the media's influence on the development and implementation of criminal justice policy.

In the early 1970s many sociologists, particularly radical theorists of crime and deviance, had rejected the belief that sociological knowledge was objective or value-free.

This book takes an in-depth look at corruption in sport and its intersection with criminal justice and governance processes.

Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice, Second Edition, offers readers an overview of domestic violence and its effects on society and includes helpful measures to curtail its rapid growth and widespread harm.

The second volume of Select Legal Topics updates, analyses, and covers current developments in such areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, state civil procedure, civil rights matters, constitutional issues, and significant recent Supreme Court decisions.

The gap between what the law and legal processes deliver for victims of domestic abuse and what they actually need has, in some instances, arguably widened.

Condemned to Die is a book about life under sentence of death in American prisons.

Concerns over insecurity and questions of safety have become central issues in social and political debates across Europe and the western world.

This edited text explores immigration detention through a global and transnational lens.

The process of judicial control over institutions is often described as growing socio-legal trend which impacts the development of modern societies.

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Restorative justice is one of the most talked about developments in the field of crime and justice.

There have been significant changes in public attitudes towards surveillance in the last few years as a consequence of the Snowden disclosures and the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

From media images of "e;mean girls"e; to the disproportionate punishment of Black, Latina and/or queer girls in schools and the justice system, female aggression has become a public concern.

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality.

Criminal Legislation in Ireland consolidates the most important and frequently used pieces of criminal legislation and facilitates easy reference for criminal practitioners and students alike.

This is the first book to look at women in policing in the mainland of the People's Republic of China.

This book argues that South Africa is haunted by the spectre of reparation.

Based on Francesca Happe's best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary psychological theories about autism.

Community policing has been a buzzword in Anglo-American policing for the last two decades, somewhat vague in its definition but generally considered to be a good thing.

As politicians, public bodies and non-Governmental organisations continue to profess an interest in making peace with the past, this highly original study explores the motivation, significance and legacy of 'making public' experiences of state violence in Northern Ireland.

The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections.

Changing attitudes towards cannabis across Europe are challenging old convictions of drug prohibition and making space for new approaches to the drug.

This book discusses private policing conducted by fraud examiners and financial crime specialists when there is suspicion of white-collar crime.

This edited collection illuminates the weaknesses and strengths of crime reporting across a wide range of countries, with a focus on democratic countries in which the police bear some accountability to citizens.

Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere draws together and critically appraises a raft of emerging research around mindfulness in healthcare, looking especially at its relevance to pregnancy and childbirth.

Caruso argues against retributivism and develops an alternative for addressing criminal behavior that is ethically defensible and practical.

First published in 1981, this book reassesses the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists living in Boston in 1920.

This book offers a history of crime and the criminal justice system in America, written particularly for students of criminal justice and those interested in the history of crime and punishment.

The Soviet Union comprehensively governed the mobility of its citizens by barring emigration and strictly regulating internal migration.

The volume of studies into desistance has grown dramatically in recent years.

The importance of play in children's health and care services, both as a form of therapy and as a distraction, is often overlooked.

This book explores the profound impact of peer support within the bleak landscape of incarceration.

Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society's most vulnerable groups.

Researching Prisons provides an overview of the processes, practices, and challenges involved in undertaking prison research.

A critical, theoretical, and empirical examination of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) is long overdue.