Crime and criminology

The history of the execution of women in the United States has largely been ignored and scholars have given scant attention to gender issues in capital punishment.

Estimation of Time since Death in Australian Conditions collates data about decomposed bodies found in the eastern states of Australia from the years 2000 to 2010.

Corruption is linked to a wide range of developmental issues, including undermining democratic institutions, slowing economic development and contributing to government instability, poverty and inequality.

This textbook provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to genocide with an emphasis on the criminal aspect of genocide.

The impact of the United Nations "e;Healthy Prisons"e; initiative has highlighted the importance of health and health promotion in incarcerated populations.

Twenty-four hours is a lot of time in prison, and here is a moment to moment guide of how each one goes by.

A comprehensive overview of the Internet of Things core concepts, technologies, and applications Internet of Things A to Z offers a holistic approach to the Internet of Things (IoT) model.

This book explores this inherent contradiction present in most facets of Singaporean media, cultural and political discourses, and identifies the key regulatory strategies and technologies that the ruling People Action Party (PAP) employs to regulate Singapore media and culture, and thus govern the thoughts and conduct of Singaporeans.

In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirteen - stood before a criminal court in Newcastle, accused of strangling two little boys; Martin Brown, four years old, and Brian Howe, three.

Will 'what works' in one country work in another?

This book is a practical guide for any student considering enrollment in, currently enrolled in, or recently graduated from an online course.

In diesem Forschungsbericht analysieren die Autoren das Geldwäschepotential der einzelnen Glücksspielformen in Abhängigkeit der Anbieter und lizensierenden Jurisdiktion.

Security challenges pose significant hardship for citizens of Caribbean nations.

From tracking down information to symbolising human experiences, this book is your guide to telling more effective, empathetic and evidence-based data stories.

Our knowledge of crime is based on three types of sources: the criminal justice system, victims, and offenders.

In keeping with the spirit of the first edition, the second edition of this book displays the autopsy procedure in a step-wise, start-to-finish fashion.

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

Analyses the politics of policing in a range of regime types across East and Southeast Asia.

By imparting crucial insights into the digital evolution of far-right extremism and its challenges, this book explores how far-right extremism has transformed, utilising digital spaces for communication and employing coded language to evade detection.

This book draws together empirical contributions which focus on conceptualising the lived realities of time and temporality in migrant lives and journeys.

This book examines the key developments in the UK magazine industry since 2014 and explains in detail how the business has innovated to survive.

Case studies on violent deaths from the past and present vividly illustrate how anthropologists construct meaning from the victim''s bones.

The threat of terrorism, if not adequately managed, is likely to increase exponentially.

This book analyses and evaluates the international efforts to ensure the fair and human treatment of persons in police custody.

Drawing on current theoretical debates in journalism studies, and grounded in empirical research, Heinrich here analyzes the interplay between journalistic practice and processes of globalization and digitalization.

A comprehensive and authoritative overview of issues relating to the evaluation of criminal justice/corrections 'interventions', this unique reference draws on a variety of theoretical, cultural and epistemological perspectives with authors from a range of disciplines and countries.

Mexico has one of the highest kidnapping rates in the world.

Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Third Edition builds on the strength of its predecessor whilst providing a more modern, digital-friendly infrastructure.

The volume uses an ethnographical approach to examine all three stages of the Correctional Services Canada's federal Correctional Officer Training Program offered for recruited individuals.

What is it about crime that makes it `men's work'?

This book discusses some of the innumerable ways in which computational methods can be used to facilitate research in biology and medicine - from storing enormous amounts of biological data to solving complex biological problems and enhancing treatment of various grave diseases.

The world abounds with tricksters, swindlers, and impostors.

Justice for Victims brings together the world's leading scholars in the fields of study surrounding victimization in a pioneering international collection.

This collection assesses the legal developments which have taken place since the 1980s in China.

This book explores innovative approaches to using and operating within and around both criminal law and civil law in the detection, investigation, and restitution of illicit cultural property.

Grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT), this book examines black and mixed-race men and women's experiences of policing in the UK.

As a punishment for our most serious crimethe intentional killing of a victim in an egregious waythe death penalty naturally attracts opposing moral views.

Each year in Canada residential burglary accounts for the loss of more than 40 million dollars in property and cash.

This collection documents the efforts of the Prison Communication, Activism, Research, and Education collective (PCARE) to put democracy into practice by merging prison education and activism.

This book presents research-based investigations of the communicative aspects of Barack Obama's presidency, with a focus on ethnicity, gender, and culture as they interact with communication.

This book reviews a range of reports written by fraud examiners after completing internal investigations.

This book provides an account of the distinctive way in which penal power developed outside the metropolitan centre.

Rural crime is a fast growing area of interest among scholars in criminology.

This book discusses new applications of technologies that have been or could be successfully employed to estimate the age of fingermarks.

This book explores how leading news media responded to the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, showing how journalists regularly framed discussions about post-crisis regulatory reform in ways that reinforced the same market liberal policy paradigm that had ushered in the crisis.

English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade.

Juvenile crime makes headlines.