Causes and prevention of crime

Further serious offences committed by those released early from custody is the subject of intense media scrutiny .

Since the mid-2000s Venezuela has been ranked one of the most violent countries in the world as homicides and police violence skyrocketed.

Since the mid-2000s Venezuela has been ranked one of the most violent countries in the world as homicides and police violence skyrocketed.

Now in its 3rd edition, The Crime Investigators Handbook provides straightforward, practical information and advice for crime investigators.

Now in its 3rd edition, The Crime Investigators Handbook provides straightforward, practical information and advice for crime investigators.

With crime of heightened concern in the country's largest cities, Peter Moskos brings readers behind the Blue Wall of the NYPD, offering insight into policing solutions directly from the law enforcement officers who went to war against crime in New York in the 1990s, and won.

This book is a monograph devoted to one of the key challenges of modern transport - the safety strategy for telematics systems being used in the movement of people and cargo.

This book is a monograph devoted to one of the key challenges of modern transport - the safety strategy for telematics systems being used in the movement of people and cargo.

With crime of heightened concern in the country's largest cities, Peter Moskos brings readers behind the Blue Wall of the NYPD, offering insight into policing solutions directly from the law enforcement officers who went to war against crime in New York in the 1990s, and won.

Applied Cyber Threat Intelligence: From Detection to Disruption is a comprehensive guide for cybersecurity students, analysts, and professionals looking to gain practical, in-demand skills in today's rapidly evolving digital threat landscape.

Foundations of Security Management: Core Concepts and Best Practices is a comprehensive, forward looking textbook that redefines how security professionals understand, design, and implement protection strategies in a rapidly changing world.

Foundations of Security Management: Core Concepts and Best Practices is a comprehensive, forward looking textbook that redefines how security professionals understand, design, and implement protection strategies in a rapidly changing world.

Applied Cyber Threat Intelligence: From Detection to Disruption is a comprehensive guide for cybersecurity students, analysts, and professionals looking to gain practical, in-demand skills in today's rapidly evolving digital threat landscape.

Through labelling theory, Crime and Marginalisation: Young People in World Cinema examines how stigma affects marginalised youth across global societies by analysing key films that reflect broader social trends.

Organizations operate in environments shaped by volatility, interconnected systems, and rapid technological change.

Bringing together international research and perspectives on bias, prejudice, and hatred towards transgender communities, this collection explores the ways in which transphobia manifests across different times and spaces, addressing an important contemporary issue and filling the current gap in hate studies literature.

Through labelling theory, Crime and Marginalisation: Young People in World Cinema examines how stigma affects marginalised youth across global societies by analysing key films that reflect broader social trends.

One of the key methods of reducing and dealing with criminal activity is to accurately gauge and then analyse the geographical distribution of crime (from small scale to large scale areas).

The art of war is of vital importance to the state.

The art of war is of vital importance to the state.

While gun design has undergone only minimal change over the centuries, investigative tools surrounding firearm use have grown significantly in sophistication.

The protection profession has evolved dramatically over the past two decades and is no longer confined to the shadows as bodyguards or operational security managers: today's protectors are trusted advisors, strategic risk leaders, and organizational influencers.

The protection profession has evolved dramatically over the past two decades and is no longer confined to the shadows as bodyguards or operational security managers: today's protectors are trusted advisors, strategic risk leaders, and organizational influencers.

Human trafficking is the third largest business for organized crime worldwide, next to illegal weapons trading and drugs.

Bringing together international research and perspectives on bias, prejudice, and hatred towards transgender communities, this collection explores the ways in which transphobia manifests across different times and spaces, addressing an important contemporary issue and filling the current gap in hate studies literature.

In missing and unidentified investigations, an abyss of dissonance seems to exist between law enforcement and the community they serve that all too often creates grating wounds that may never heal.

For well over one hundred years society had considered ways of helping prisoners on their release from prison, but there had been no serious attempt to assess in a scientific manner the value of such efforts.

The research revolution in police work has uncovered a multitude of data, but this contemporary knowledge has done very little to change the way things are done in most police departments across the U.

Reflecting the myriad changes and advancements in the technologies involved in FTIR, particularly the development of diamond ATRs, this second edition of Fundamentals of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy has been extensively rewritten and expanded to include new topics and figures as well as updates of existing chapters.

This book uses feminist and postcolonial approaches to archival research and interviews to interrogate the persistence of colonial logics in contemporary counterterrorism practice, exposing how forms of state violence are normalised and legitimised.

Efforts to reduce reliance on police have gained momentum since 2020, driven by a growing recognition that public safety is better served when addressed by experts in medicine, mental health, houselessness, and behavior intervention.

For well over one hundred years society had considered ways of helping prisoners on their release from prison, but there had been no serious attempt to assess in a scientific manner the value of such efforts.

Ransomware is a type of malicious software that prevents victims from accessing their computers and the information they have stored.

To counteract a cyber attacker, organizations need to learn to think like one.

To counteract a cyber attacker, organizations need to learn to think like one.

Efforts to reduce reliance on police have gained momentum since 2020, driven by a growing recognition that public safety is better served when addressed by experts in medicine, mental health, houselessness, and behavior intervention.

This book uses feminist and postcolonial approaches to archival research and interviews to interrogate the persistence of colonial logics in contemporary counterterrorism practice, exposing how forms of state violence are normalised and legitimised.

This book looks at the recent history of sex, contraception, and abortion in Australia's most conservative state, Queensland.

At the outset of the twenty-first century, more than 9 million people are held in custody in over 200 countries around the world.

A careful analysis of environmental factors is key to understanding the causes of crime, to solving crimes, and eventually helping to predict and prevent them.

Organizations operate in environments shaped by volatility, interconnected systems, and rapid technological change.

The heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of UNNATURAL CAUSES, Dr Richard ShepherdA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Deeply insightful.

Ransomware is a type of malicious software that prevents victims from accessing their computers and the information they have stored.

This book looks at the recent history of sex, contraception, and abortion in Australia's most conservative state, Queensland.

This book applies modern object relations theory-particularly the concept of intersubjectivity as articulated by Thomas Ogden-to a population for which the "e;treatment du jour"e; is increasingly cognitive-behavioral.

Detention and deportation have become keystones of immigration and border enforcement policies around the world.

Winner of 'Best Book' and 'Impact for Change' True Crime Awards 2025The shocking true story of one of Britain's most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operationsBristol, 1979.

This book introduces narrative justice, a new theory of aesthetic education - the thesis that the cultivation of aesthetic or artistic sensibility can both improve moral character and achieve political justice.