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In this absorbing new collection, Short and Hughes and their distinguished coauthors investigate why and how we study youth gangs.

Criminal Evidence is a well-respected and trusted introduction to the rules of criminal evidence for criminal justice students and professionals.

The Joy of Stats offers a reader-friendly introduction to applied statistics and quantitative analysis in the social sciences and public policy.

This ground breaking book is the first law enforcement defensive tactics publication that realistically addresses the limited training that law enforcement officers currently receive.

The ability of law enforcement agencies to manage and act upon intelligence is the key to countering terrorism.

Healing Veteran Moral Injury highlights the importance of story and metaphor in the change process and in trauma-related work.

Modern perspectives of law enforcement are both complex and diverse.

This book serves as a vital resource for clinicians, therapists, and individuals aiming to integrate their psychedelic experiences through the transformative practice of Art Therapy.

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This book presents the findings from the Enhancing Positive Outcomes in Youth and the Community (EPYC) study.

Authoritative, current, and easy to use, this book is an outstanding resource for readers looking to gain an accurate and thorough understanding of American juvenile justice.

This book explores the relationship between policing and mental health.

On January 7, 1973, shots were fired from Howard Johnson's Motel in New Orleans, LA.

In April 1956, Portland Oregonian investigative reporters Wallace Turner and William Lambert exposed organized crime rackets and rampant corruption within Portlands law enforcement institutions.

This handbook brings together the knowledge on juvenile imprisonment to develop a global, synthesized view of the impact of imprisonment on children and young people.

Are we safer from terrorism today and is our homeland security money well spent?

Assessing and Managing Problematic Sexual Interests: A Practitioner's Guide provides a thorough review of atypical sexual interests and offers various ways through which they can be measured and controlled, including compassion-focused and psychoanalytic approaches.

Children with life-threatening and terminal illnesses--and their families--require a unique kind of care to meet a wide variety of needs.

Vulnerability theory identifies structural and institutional factors that build or undermine the resilience of individuals and organisations.

This book analyses the usefulness of terrorist profiling utilised by law enforcement officers as a pre-emptive means to assist them in the detection, prevention and deterrence of terrorism and/or its preparatory activities.

How do poverty, youth and crime relate to the concept of being 'cool'?

A unique companion to professional play practice!

An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonmentDespite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice.

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

This book analyzes the impact of the U.

This critical textbook looks beyond the immediate data on knife crime to try and make sense of what is a global phenomenon.

This book analyses the nature, causes, logic, and culture of prison victimisation in an English young offender institution for young men aged 18-21 years old.

The death of a patient is every therapist's worst nightmare.

This volume brings together leading researchers to celebrate the significant contributions of Peter Grabosky to the field of Criminology, and in particular his work developing and adapting regulatory theory to the study of policing and security.

In this collection of articles spanning 65 years as a clinical psychologist, Nick A.

This book revisits and reframes the old, but active, debate on the relationship between criminality and civil war by bringing both the state and political power into the equation.

Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across 19 countries, drawing on themes of crime and victimisation, safety and fear, practices of policing and police trust, and crime prevention practices.

Despite great strides in recent years, human trafficking remains a horrific reality for countless millions of people around the world.

This book focuses on a border police collaboration project in the Baltic Sea area aiming at fighting cross-border crimes.

Images of youngsters in handcuffs and prison uniforms have become common on the nightly news in the United States.

This book addresses one of today's most urgent issues: the loss of wildlife and habitat, which together constitute an ecological crisis.

This book is an examination of recent developments in the areas of youth justice and child protection.

Drawing on empirical work and secondary analysis from the UK and Finnish construction industries, this book contributes a deep-rooted analysis of construction industry harms that originate from corporate-industrialstate processes.

The concept of 'organised crime' is constructed and mobilised by a milieu of complex factors and discourses including a politics of law and order, and international insecurity, combined with the vested interests and priorities of scholars, politicians, government officials, and policing authorities.

Focusing on juvenile transfer and disposition evaluations, this volume provides an up-to-date integration of current law, science, and practice with respect to juvenile risk assessment, treatment needs/amenability, and sophistication-maturity.

This edited collection analyses, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the issue of corruption in commercial enterprise across different sectors and jurisdictions.

Winner of the 2018 PEN Translates Award for Non-FictionFeatures illustrations by the Honduran artist Germ n AndinoWelcome to a country that has a higher casualty rate than Iraq.

This book examines the use of social network analysis (SNA) in operational environments from the perspective of those who actually apply it.

Building upon a range of case studies that range from civil war to maritime security and cyber crime, the contributors analyse how non-state actors can and should be involved in contributing to state and human security.

This is the first book to examine and compare how rebels govern civilians during civil wars around the globe.

This book provides a clear introduction to the Mental Capacity Act (MCA, 2005), offering an easy reference guide to the complex issues enshrined within the Act to inform the everyday practice of those who need to perform within its parameters as part of their day-to-day work.