Causes and prevention of crime

Although a range of program and policy responses to youth gangs exist, most are largely based on suppression, implemented by the police or other criminal justice agencies.

First published in 1992, Crime, Criminal Justice and the Probation Service is a thought-provoking analysis of the role of the probation service in developing an integrated system of criminal justice.

It has long been suggested that poverty was responsible for a criminal underclass emerging in Britain during the nineteenth century.

Human trafficking has emerged as one of the top international and domestic policy concerns, and is well covered and often sensationalized by the media.

The Prevention of Crime provides a unique and comprehensive overview of effective crime prevention programs, strategies and policies, demonstrating how criminological theories, research, and practice are interrelated.

This book uses a crime science approach to explore the ways in which child sexual abuse material (CSAM) can be tackled.

Active killer attacks frequently dominate the headlines with stories of seemingly random mass killings in school, campus, and workplace settings.

Winner of the 2022 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award!

Police use of force has been a major concern for police departments and citizens in the United States since the 1840s, when police first started carrying guns.

The internet has launched the world into an era into which enormous amounts of data aregenerated every day through technologies with both positive and negative consequences.

How did anxieties about crime and deviance emerge in the modern world, first in Europe and then in America?

This book provides an ethnography of street-level policing in the United States and offers an analysis with valuable lessons for today's law enforcement officers.

The problem of gangs and gang subculture is a growing threat to the stability of neighborhoods and entire communities.

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison characteristics associated with violence perpetration and violent victimization among both prison inmates and staff.

Because the investigation of cold cases is usually an arduous and time-consuming task, most law enforcement agencies in the United States are not able to dedicate the resources necessary to support the cold case investigation process.

This volume presents recent insights in the sociological study of surveillance and governance in the context of criminal justice and other control strategies.

This text presents an international approach to the study of crime prevention.

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison characteristics associated with violence perpetration and violent victimization among both prison inmates and staff.

In the United States and Great Britain, 20-30% of all homicides involve the killing of a woman by a man.

In Bloodstain Pattern Evidence, the concepts introduced in the author's first book, Blood Dynamics, are updated and applied to provide essential answers in the resolution of actual crimes.

The aim of this book is to demonstrate the use of business driven risk assessments to address government regulations and guidelines specific to AI risks, as AI systems often require access to personal data.

Crime Reconstruction, Second Edition is an updated guide to the interpretation of physical evidence, written for the advanced student of forensic science, the practicing forensic generalist and those with multiple forensic specialists.

A fundamental introduction on how to think about, do, and evaluate research in the criminology and criminal justice field.

Commingled human remains are encountered in situations ranging from prehistoric ossuaries to recent mass fatality incidents.

Financial market reform has focused chiefly on the threats to stability arising from the risky, uncontrolled activity of the leaders of financial institutions.

Independent directors of corporate boards understand the importance of cyber security as a business issue.

Deterrence, Choice, and Crime explores the various dimensions of modern deterrence theory, relevant research, and practical applications.

Police body-worn cameras (BWCs) are at the cutting edge of policing.

Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research: At the Crossroads reviews the roots of the intersection between machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and research on crime; examines the current state of the art in this area of scholarly inquiry; and discusses future perspectives that may emerge from this relationship.

Why has America experienced an explosion in crime rates since 1960?

Even in multicultural North America, few whites, blacks, or Hispanics have extensive experience or understanding of Asian culture.

Crime, Regulation and Control during the Blitz looks at the social effect of bombing on urban centres like Liverpool, Coventry and London, critically examining how the wartime authorities struggled to regulate and control crime and offending during the Blitz.

Every day, newspapers, magazines, web sites, and social media feature articles about the prevalence of crime.

The 22nd Annual Meeting of the International Police Executive Symposium was held in August 2012 at the United Nations Plaza in New York.

Provides an original approach to the emerging practice of reparations for international crimes and a fresh analysis of the recent jurisprudence at the International Criminal Court.

High-Security Mechanical Locks comprehensively surveys and explains the highly technical area of high security locks in a way that is accessible to a wide audience.

Tradecraft is a term used within the intelligence community to describe the methods, practices, and techniques used in espionage and clandestine investigations.

This book delves into the fascinating world of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), empowering you to leverage the vast ocean of publicly available information to gain valuable insights and intelligence.

Although billions of dollars have been spent on crime prevention and controlprograms during the past decade, scientifically strong impact evaluations of theseprograms are uncommon in the context of the overall number of programs thathave received funding.

Human trafficking is a crime that undermines fundamental human rights and a broader sense of global order.

When Helen was 20, she met Garry Newlove at a local disco.

Community-oriented policing (COP) is the ideology and policy model espoused in the mission statements of nearly all policing forces throughout the world.

Intruder Alarms provides a definitive and fully up-to-date guide to the specification, systems design, integration, installation and maintenance of intruder alarm systems.

Children are suffering from a hidden epidemic of child abuse and neglect.

In recent years, the fields of crime analysis and environmental criminology have grown in prominence for their advancements made in understanding crime.

Millions in our nation are under some type of judicial sanction, with some individuals behind bars but the majority serving their sentences while living and working among us.

The International Criminal Court was established in 2002 to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Exploring the experiences of both male clients and female sex workers, China's Commercial Sexscapes expands upon the complex dynamics of sex worker and client relationships, and places them within the wider implications of expanding globalization and capitalism.