Keeping Religious Institutions Secure explores the unique vulnerabilities that churches, synagogues, and mosques face in regards to security, making them attractive to criminals who see them as easy targets.
Security for Business Professionals offers business executives and managers everything they need to set-up a security program, especially for those who don't have the resources to hire an in-house security staff.
Carol Hayden reviews evidence about children in trouble across a range of circumstances, demonstrating the tensions between welfare and justice, care and control in the treatment of these vulnerable young people and evaluating the implications of the current 'what works' debate within social policy.
Crime scenes within correctional facilities present investigators with myriad challenges, not only in working, investigating, and collecting evidence but also in obtaining reliable eyewitness accounts.
'EXCELLENT WRITING AND RESEARCH' - RUTH RENDELLThe Crime Museum of New Scotland Yard - invariably known as 'the Black Museum' - houses a remarkable collection of exhibits, photographs and documents connected with some of the most notorious crimes in this country's history.
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.
Crime prevention that works - the goal of much government and corporate policy - can be difficult to discover amongst obscure and tedious academic texts.
"e;I have had the misfortune of being raped twice-once in the park and again in the media,"e; wrote "e;Jane Doe,"e; the victim of an infamous stranger rape in Brooklyn, New York.
Written by one of the leading figures in biosocial criminology and evolutionary psychology, this work explores the tight relationship between criminality and indiscriminate sexuality within the framework of life history theory.
Written by one of the leading figures in biosocial criminology and evolutionary psychology, this work explores the tight relationship between criminality and indiscriminate sexuality within the framework of life history theory.
Providing an indispensable resource for students investigating sexual harassment in the United States, Sexual Harassment: A Reference Handbook is a comprehensive summary of history, current events, possible solutions, and resources.
The third edition of The Business Response to Misconduct Allegations is a step-by-step guide for what to do-and what not to do-in performing an investigation into claims of employee policy violations.
This wide-ranging resource uses evidence-based documentation to examine claims and beliefs - and provide the facts - about sexual assault and harassment and other forms of sexual violence in the United States.
Doing Harm pries open the black box on a critical chapter in the recent history of psychology: the field's enmeshment in the so-called war on terror and the ensuing reckoning over do-no-harm ethics during times of threat.
This book offers a useful theoretical overview of key approaches to the subject of crime and community and considers the ways in which these have been applied in more practical settings.
In Right to be Hostile, scholar and activist Erica Meiners offers concrete examples and new insights into the "e;school to prison' pipeline phenomenon, showing how disciplinary regulations, pedagogy, pop culture and more not only implicitly advance, but actually normalize an expectation of incarceration for urban youth.
Criminal Justice in the United States is in the midst of momentous changes: an era of low crime rates not seen since the 1960s, and a variety of budget crunches also exerting profound impacts on the system.
Originally published in 1995, this book describes and analyzes the way urban parents view the problems of their adolescent children, and the way they have tried to cope with and seek help for them.
Workplace Security Playbook: The New Manager's Guide to Security Risk is a set of comprehensive risk management guidelines for companies that have other business functions coordinating security.
Today, corruption has moved to the top of the global political agenda as its dramatic impact on economic development and its corrosive effect on political stability and democratic political institutions has become increasingly obvious.
The fight against the illegal entry, residence and employment of foreigners is one of the key priorities of the immigration policies of the OECD countries.
En un país con más de 98 000 personas desaparecidas, las pedagogías de búsqueda se han manifestado y trasladado de familia a familia y de colectivo a colectivo.
