Criminal procedure

Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries and antipodes.

First published in 1980, Mugging as a Social Problem sets out to remedy the deficiency of serious research on mugging.

This book explores the theoretical contribution of Michel Foucault to the fields of criminology, law, justice and penology.

Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains unprecedentedly high.

Road Traffic Offences are by far the most prosecuted type of criminal offence in theCourts of Ireland.

This book reports on research which investigates the perceptions of ethnic minorities concerning their treatment in the criminal courts.

Why the Police Should be Trained by Black People aligns scholarly and community efforts to address how Black people are policed.

Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence explores how family and family activism work at the intersection of personal and public troubles and considers what influence family testimonies of fatal violence can have on matters of crime, justice, and punishment.

Without strong proof, policy advocates along with some scholars have causally linked declines in juvenile offending and incarceration with evidence-based and rehabilitation-oriented policy reform.

This book covers every aspect of the informant and cooperating witness dynamic a controversial technique shrouded in secrecy and widely misunderstood.

A great deal has been written about the political, policy and practice changes that have shaped probation work but little has been written on the changes to occupational cultures and the ways in which probation workers themselves view their role.

This book is the first Australian study, based on extensive fieldwork, of the personal backgrounds and processes by which juveniles get drawn into risky and violent situations that culminate in murder.

Current estimates indicate that approximately 2.

Training and education constitutes the backbone of a significant amount of police activity and expenditure in developing the most important resources involved in policing work.

The Greek philosopher, Socrates, posed a guardian model that would protect his Athenian world, the custodes (watchmen), yet mused who would guard them but themselves.

This book explores how Circles of Support and Accountability can reduce sexual reoffending.

Racial Profiling: Using Propensity Score Matching to Examine Focal Concerns Theory combines theory and propensity score matching to offer readers a better understanding of racial profiling through traffic stop data concerning the race and gender of the driver.

Every year millions of families are affected by the imprisonment of a family member.

All five contemporary practitioners of the death penalty in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)- Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam-- have performed executions on a regular basis over the past few decades.

This book is an in-depth, evidence-based guide to interviewing suspects with specific vulnerabilities.

Offender rehabilitation has become increasingly and almost exclusively associated with structured cognitive-behavioural programmes.

These studies recover the historical roots of thinking that are in conflict with, and critical of, present-day tendencies.

Sentencing Policies and Practices in the 21st Century focuses on the evolution and consequences of sentencing policies and practices, with sentencing broadly defined to include plea bargaining, judicial and juror decision making, and alternatives to incarceration, including participation in problem-solving courts.

A one-stop resource for understanding historical and contemporary perspectives on ideological extremism in law enforcement, as well as its wider impacts on American society.

This book by Roger W.

Low confidence in the police and the increasing crime rates during the 1990s led to a series of government initiatives directed at changing both the structure and management of the police service.

This book looks at police reform in Canada, arguing that no significant and sustainable reform can occur until steps are taken to answer the question of 'What exactly do we want police to do?

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

This book presents a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study into the various goals assigned to international criminal trials.

This fascinating new title offers an ethnographical investigation of contemporary police culture based on extensive field work across a range of ranks and units in the UK's police force.

Knowledge about policing has been produced and disseminated unevenly so that our understanding comes from a skewed emphasis on the Anglo-American experience.

Courts are constantly required to know how people think.

This co-authored book critically reviews existing literature on school resource officer (SRO) programs and presents a thorough evaluation of an SRO program offered by Peel Regional Police in Ontario, Canada.

The leading textbook on sentencing, and the only one to integrate theory and empirical research with legislation, guidelines and case law.

Legal decisions continue to mystify: why was this person sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that person to just 10 years for the same crime?

This groundbreaking edited volume evaluates prisoner reentry using a critical approach to demonstrate how the many issues surrounding reentry do not merely intersect but are in fact reinforcing and interdependent.

This book provides an essential and critical overview of the most significant issues concerning the domestication of international criminal law, in particular with regard to the implementation of the ICC Statute.

Ermittlungen mit verdeckt arbeitenden Personen haben eine zunehmende praktische Bedeutung für Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft.

Crime is as old as Man Mythology relates First Disobedience i.

This collection, by leading legal scholars, judges and practitioners, together with theologians and church historians, presents historical, theological, philosophical and legal perspectives on Christianity and criminal law.

Im sogenannten "Schulenstreit" zwischen der "modernen" Strafrechtsschule um Franz v.

This book queries the concept of rehabilitation to determine how, on a legislative and policy level, the term is defined as a goal of correctional systems.

This book examines what it means to be a family within the restrictive, disruptive, and often distressing context of imprisonment.