Social Justice, Social Discrimination, and Mental Health explores the theory and background of social justice in the context of mental health of individuals, cultures, and communities.
Bringing together perspectives from academics, practitioners, campaigners, and activists, this book explores the victimology of disability hate crime (DHC).
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.
In a rapidly evolving world where technology is increasingly integrated into our daily lives, security has become a top priority for individuals, organizations, and governments.
This timely, insightful, and data-led book fills a gap in gang scholarship by examining gangs in rural areas, specifically focusing on youth gang activity.
Breaking new ground in criminology, this book reflects on the expansion of outer space endeavours, the new pathways this presents for crime, challenges to Earth-based conceptions of justice, and the ethical issues raised.
This authoritative, balanced, and accessible reference resource provides readers with a wide-ranging survey of capital punishment in America, including its history, its legal and cultural foundations, and racial and economic factors in its application.
Esta compilación de nueve capítulos de investigación sobre los espacios de encierro, detención, castigo y trabajo penado en la historia de Colombia ofrece una mirada de larguísima duración en nuestro territorio, desde las primeras fundaciones de Tierra Firme, pasando por el Virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada, hasta la República de Colombia en el siglo XX.
Offering a lively, international, and interdisciplinary introduction to research on arts programmes in prisons, Arts in Criminal Justice and Corrections is the first volume to bring together leading figures from the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Belgium to explore key methodological approaches and issues through the lens of the researchers themselves.
This book investigates corruption and anti-corruption efforts in Africa, emphasising the regional and thematic differences across the continent, whilst also exploring key patterns and trends.
Through cultural criminology, this book brings together existing research to provide an overview of historical and modern moral panics related to human trafficking.
Esta obra, en el contexto del Derecho Positivo argentino, da respuesta a la pregunta: ¿en qué consiste aquello por lo que se hace responsable al partícipe de la conducta desviada que desarrolla otra persona El Derecho argentino condiciona la punición del partícipe al comienzo de la ejecución de un hecho principal y entiende que el partícipe infringe el precepto por su comportamiento individual, cualquiera que sea el contexto objetivo real y los hechos o representaciones del autor principal.
Der neue Sammelband dokumentiert eine akademische Ringvorlesung, die im Wintersemester 2021/22 vom Kriminalwissenschaftlichen Institut an der Leibniz Universität Hannover veranstaltet wurde.
La discusión académica y práctica en torno a si las empresas deben ser sancionadas por los delitos de sus empleados y, en su caso, en qué medida deben serlo, es valorada y regulada de modo diverso en los distintos ordenamientos jurídicos: desde la ausencia de sanciones, pasando por modelos de sanciones administrativas, hasta un modelo sancionatorio penal en sentido estricto.
Due to the international importance attached to the reporting of conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) over the last two decades, scholars have been able to examine the magnitude of the problem across different situations and types of conflict.
