This book brings together international research from scholars and activists on the forms of violence that older women experience into a unique, comprehensive two-volume set.
En este estudio sobre las cárceles de Lima entre 1850 y 1935, Carlos Aguirre reconstruye las influencias sociales, culturales y doctrinales detrás de las formas en que se trataba a los delincuentes, la implementación –parcial y llena de contradicciones– de proyectos de reforma carcelaria, y las estrategias desplegadas por los reclusos para enfrentar la experiencia de la prisión.
El paisaje urbano cercano a las prisiones se puebla, semanalmente y con extraordinaria regularidad, de una siempre creciente cantidad de personas que, sin encontrarse encerradas, mantienen relaciones continuas con quienes están detenidos.
This edited collection brings together scholars and practitioners in every chapter to provide a comprehensive and unique exploration of courts in Australia.
This book explains Japan's unique Prosecution Review Commission (PRC) which is composed of eleven lay people selected randomly from voter registration lists.
This edited book brings together a range of expert voices - academics, researchers, practitioners, activists, and policy leads - who are responding to domestic and sexual violence (DASV) in various settings.
Intelligence-led Policing clearly explains the distinction between information and intelligence, and discusses how to gather, analyse and utilise intelligence to inform decision making in practice.
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.
This book records real-life experiences of transgender violence and victimisation, analysing the legal lacunae in granting protection to the historically vulnerable community and their perspective of the law and safety.
This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance edited by Mathieu Deflem addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order.
This book provides a critical analysis of criminological scholarship in Malaysia, presenting a focused exploration of the key qualities and limitations to studies on crime, deviance, victimization and criminal justice in this country.
This edited collection highlights international research on domestic homicides and death reviews which are a rapidly growing intervention/prevention initiative in various countries.
The book provides a contemporary 'snapshot' of critical debate centred around cybercrime and related issues, to advance theoretical development and inform social and educational policy.
This book examines the complexities of the relationship between policing and mental health - in Australia especially - including the circumstances that lead to police use of force, and the ways in which news media typically report deaths resulting from police contact with people in mental health crisis.
This book presents an alternative approach to understanding fear and crime by examining those who are feared or who cause fear to others, as opposed to those who are fearful of crime.
This book breaks new theoretical ground by constructing a framework of 'relational vulnerability' through which it analyses the disadvantaged position of those who undertake unpaid caregiving, or 'dependency-work', in the context of the private family.
This book analyzes human rights and crime prevention challenges from the perspective of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda, in particular its goal 16 on promoting peaceful, inclusive and just societies, the creation and development of which depend on the interplay between various secular and non-secular (f)actors.
This books demonstrates the difficulty of protecting victims of human trafficking from being held liable for crimes they were compelled to commit in the course, or as a consequence, of being trafficked, under current European law.
This book examines the media and cultural responses to the awful crimes of Brady and Hindley, whose murders provided a template for future media reporting on serial killers.
This book is a guide to the law and practice of victims' roles before the International Criminal Court, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
This book examines the different forms that honour-based abuse crimes take and analyses the discretionary police practices employed when responding to these incidents.
This book presents a study of street children's involvement as workers in Bangladeshi organised crime groups based on a three-year ethnographic study in Dhaka.
This book examines the role of deceptive tactics in the criminal victimization process, showing how various forms of manipulative aggression can help disguise dangerous advances.
This cutting-edge book examines the unique issues that transgender identities face globally in the criminal processing system through empirical and theoretical contributions.
By extending the cast list of roles implicated in rape's hidden sphere of harm, this book attentively listens to experiential voices of complainant/witnesses, suspect/accused, police, lawyers, judges and jurors, therapists, advocates, partners, parents, family and friends during the criminal justice journey.
By extending the cast list of roles implicated in rape's hidden sphere of harm, this book attentively listens to experiential voices of complainant/witnesses, suspect/accused, police, lawyers, judges and jurors, therapists, advocates, partners, parents, family and friends during the criminal justice journey.
