Organized crime

This book focuses on the phenomenon of hacktivism and how it has been dealt with up to now in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Truly international in scope, this Handbook focuses on approaches to discipline, surveillance and social control from around the world, critically examining the strategies and practices schools employ to monitor students and control their behavior.

Family Group Conferences are seen as a progressive and influential form of practice in child welfare across the globe.

Through analysis of data held by the National Crime Agency on organised crime groups, and in-depth analysis of qualitative interviews with convicted fraudsters and enforcement professionals, this detailed study fills a significant gap in the contemporary literature on organised crime groups involved in fraud.

This book provides a critical discussion of the way in which religion influences: criminal and antisocial behaviour, punishment and the law, intergroup conflict and peace-making, and the rehabilitation of offenders.

This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes.

This book analyses the Youth Justice Conferencing Program in New South Wales, Australia.

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.

This Brief presents the first major release of findings from the Third International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3).

This book describes the complex process of desistance from sexual crime as told by 74 men incarcerated for sexual offenses and released back into the community.

This handbook is an international, comprehensive, reference tool in the field of trafficking in people and slavery.

This edited book examines the contemporary regional security concerns in the Asia-Pacific recognizing the 'Butterfly effect', the concept that small causes can have large effects: 'the flap of a butterfly's wings can cause a typhoon halfway around the world'.

This book articulates how crime prevention research and practice can be reimagined for an increasingly digital world.

This book tackles the important question of how we can understand and learn from the school rampage killings that have been prevented.

This book presents a detailed analysis of Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) program.

This edited volume examines the use of militarised responses to different forms of criminal activity, discussing the outcomes and unintended consequences.

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 provides the "e;how to's"e; of police patrol, focusing on how officers on the front line perform their duties (covering both skills and techniques), meet day-to-day challenges, and manage the tasks and risks associated with modern police patrol.

This book explores young people's experiences of social control and the state, especially those living at the margins of society within the UK.

This second volume of Richard Jessor's influential works applies his groundbreaking theory to illuminating the psychosocial determinants of adolescent health.

This edited collection brings together scholars and practitioners to consider the ways in which policing organisations approach vulnerability and the strategies they develop to reduce victims, offenders and police officers' susceptibility to increased harm.

This book develops the idea that the Cosa Nostra Sicilian mafia likes and, more than any other criminal organization, follows the patterns of capitalist transformation.

This book examines the lives of the sentenced to argue that 'sentencing' should be re-conceived to consider the human perspective.

This book introduces 'convenience' as the key concept to explain financial crime by white-collar criminals.

This book provides a fully-contextualised, multidisciplinary examination of bullying and violence in South Korean society.

This book examines the changing police landscape over the past 25 years to establish how Police Leadership has evolved to meet this challenge.

This book provides practical recommendations on how to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of AML compliance by introducing the theory, framework and approach for dealing with the concerns of Money Laundering Reporting Officers (MLROs) within the UK banking industry.

This book offers an ethnographic study of the lives of girls in the juvenile justice system.

This book critically examines the link between guns and violence.

This book provides a sociological examination of young people's pathways into, and out of, substance abuse.

This book presents an historical and sociological account of the Italian mafia-type organisation known as the 'ndrangheta.

This Brief presents the first major release of findings from the Third International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3).

This book discusses the role of the prison in Europe across a divide of over 200 years.

The Unmaking of Crime documents the pathways of offenders reforming their journey and desisting from crime, and assesses the opportunities and limitations of the criminal justice system in aiding this process.

Sandra Gregory seemed to have the perfect life in Bangkok - until illness, unemployment and political unrest turned it into a nightmare.

Officially, Western societies are waging a war on obesity.

Diskrete Geschäfte sind es, die Wirtschaftsjournalist Florian Horcicka in seinem Buch unter die Lupe nimmt.

Bringing together academics and professionals, this edited collection considers key issues in current criminal justice policy and practice related specifically to women to answer the important question: are women being failed by the criminal justice system?

This book examines the processes for social integration and social cohesion among young people, drawing on data collected from the International Self-Report Delinquency (ISRD) study, which covered 35 studies.

["The Sanctioning of Insubordinate Patient Behaviour.

This book focuses on the enforcement aspect of tobacco control policy, and argues that the intense regulation of the tobacco market will never be successful as long as it can be circumvented by the availability of illicit tobacco products.

Ein Kommentar von Praktikern für Praktiker!

This book seeks to contribute to the analysis of the serious violations of human rights in Mexico during the processes of democratic transition and the "e;War on Drugs"e; by taking bodies and territories as archives of the crimes committed by the Mexican State in the last decades.