This book explores two major social problems facing Chinese society today: increased strain in the lives of young people and heightened rates of crime and delinquency, ultimately examining the links between them.
The profile of prisoners across many Western countries is strikingly similar - 95% male, predominantly undereducated and underemployed, from the most deprived neighbourhoods.
This book presents primary research conducted in Italy, USA, Australia and the UK on countering strategies and institutional perceptions of Italian mafias and local organized crime groups.
This book offers a sociological exploration of street children in India and what pulls and pushes them into delinquency, at a time when the government of India is contemplating strengthening its juvenile justice system.
This book provides a complex, socio-anthropological analysis of organized crime operating in the Vietnamese diaspora in the Czech Republic, and its international implications.
In light of asymmetrical security threats in western democracies as well as in conflict regions, this timely book examines the actors, strategies and tactics of Islamist terrorism and transnational organized crime around the globe.
The book deals with illicit trafficking in the Mediterranean, seen as a borderline issue between mobility and security under a strongly interdisciplinary approach.
Blinded in one eye by a childhood incident, his tormentors called him 'One Eye' or 'Cyclops'; it could have instilled a victim mentality in him, but instead he became a fighter.
Establishing a new framework for understanding insider risk by focusing on systems of organisation within large enterprises, including public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, this book analyses practices to better assess, prevent, detect, and respond to insider risk and protect assets and public good.
"e;The strength of this book is that it does not look at a single case or even a few disparate examples of drug, weapon, and human trafficking but looks at many patterns-intra-regionally, cross-nationally, and internationally.
The second of two volumes, this book about the criminology of Carlo Morselli includes a diversity of contributions that study the social inter-dependence of criminal phenomena.
This book offers a unique insight into the moral politics behind human trafficking policy in Australia and the USA, including rare interviews with key political actors, and a critical account of Congressional and Parliamentary hearings.
The book highlights the root cause of human trafficking and analyses how factors of vulnerability affect the marginalized, especially during and after a disaster.
This book examines the use of violence by children and young people in family settings and proposes specialised and age-appropriate responses to these children and young people It interrogates the adequacy and effectiveness of current service and justice system responses, including analysis of police, court and specialist service responses.
Este libro presenta un análisis de las diferentes dimensiones en las que puede comprenderse la relación entre el estado y los jóvenes de clases populares que se dan en ocasión de un proceso de judicialización en el Sistema de Responsabilidad Penal para Adolescentes (SRPA).
Este libro tiene la intención de plantear el debate sobre cómo se ha tejido histórica, sociológica y juridicamente la defensa e imaginación de la vida en un territorio paradojal como lo es Buenaventura.
The book highlights the root cause of human trafficking and analyses how factors of vulnerability affect the marginalized, especially during and after a disaster.
During the early days of rock and roll the mob used every tactic they could, from creating their own record labels, bribing radio DJs and stacking jukeboxes with their own artists, to exploiting and intimidating performers, and creating their own black market of bootlegged records, to make millions.
Alba Sanz, joven periodista de belleza poco convencional, tiene la oportunidad de su vida: un reportaje para atrapar con las manos en la masa a un capo de la mafia siciliana.
Aquest llibre —com la Mediterrània— està poblat per pirates, corsaris, vikings, bucaners, negrers… Pirates algerians i turcs, corsaris anglesos i francesos, i provençals, genovesos, venecians… Amb noms mítics com Barba-roja i Barba-rossa, Salah Rais, Dragut i Cacciadiavolo.
Cuando un sistema calla y no reacciona frente al delito, cuando no se generan espacios para lograr el compromiso de la comunidad, o cuando las víctimas pueden vengarse del victimario, nos encontramos en una sociedad con carencias en su sistema normativo.
„Böse Mädchen" – Anhand einer empirisch quantitativen Studie widmet sich die Autorin jungen Frauen in der Jugendphase, die durch körperliche Gewalt sowohl Rechts- als auch Geschlechternormen sprengen.
Mit der Föderalismusreform des Jahres 2007 hat eine bewährte Praxis auf der Grundlage eines Bundesgesetzes und bundeseinheitlich vereinbarter Verwaltungsvorschriften ein Ende gefunden.
