Victimology and victims of crime

This book examines the experiences of disabled people on public transport to reveal the everyday abuses that many experience there, and the resilience that they need in order to conduct an ordinary life.

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 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.

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 textbook addresses existing gaps in police research, education, and training, and provides guidance on how to respond to and address the vulnerability that arises in policing practice.

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.

This book investigates the contested phenomena of Islamophobia, exploring the dichotomous relationship that exists between Islamophobia as a political concept and Islamophobia as a 'real' and tangible discriminatory phenomenon.

WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'Gripping from the start, Written in Bone is superb' - Dr Richard Shepherd, author of Unnatural Causes'No Scientist communicates better than Sue Black' - Val McDermid, author of Still Life'Macabre, authoritative and fascinating.

This edited collection brings together scholars and practitioners in every chapter to provide a comprehensive and unique exploration of courts in Australia.

Although historically ignored, crime victims are now very firmly on the map.

This book examines research as activism through a case study of online hate targeting LGBTQ+ young people.

This handbook explores the concept of 'harm' in criminological scholarship and lays the foundation for a future zemiological agenda.

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.

This book provides a critical analysis of how the "e;war on terror"e; affected the civilian population in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This book offers unparalleled insight into the ways in which hate crime affects individuals and communities across the world.

This book provides a critical and comprehensive analysis of the reconceptualization of preventive warfare in the 21st century.

Between 1975 and 1980, Peter Sutcliffe, who became known as the Yorkshire Ripper, murdered 13 women in the North of England.

This book deals with child soldiers' involvement in crimes under international law.

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

This short book focuses on the Disappearances that occurred during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

This book examines disability hate crime.

Intimate Partner Violence is a serious social problem affecting millions in the United States and worldwide.

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 book introduces a new and original sociological conceptualization of compromise after conflict and is based on six-years of study amongst victims of conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka, with case studies from Sierra Leone and Colombia.

In light of ongoing concerns about the treatment of survivors, Rape Trials in England and Wales critically examines court responses to rape and sexual assault.

This book explores what victimology, as both an academic discipline and an activist movement, has achieved since its initial conception in the 1940s, from a variety of experts' perspectives.

This book highlights the significance of Rene Girard's work for key criminological debates to provide new perspectives.

This edited collection of first-person stories about risk in the field offers an arsenal of practical examples where fieldworkers have attempted to negotiate the complexities and risks of field research.

Das LernkonzeptDie Autoren des Lernbuchs zeigen anhand von 21 prägnanten, lebensnahen Sachverhalten, worauf es in Kurztests, Klassenarbeiten und Prüfungsklausuren zur StPO (Strafprozessordnung) im Rahmen der polizeilichen Ausbildung ankommt.

From the UK's leading criminologist comes the true story of Margaret McLaughlin, and the man he believes was fitted up for her murder 'Enthralling .

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.

This handbook of forensic victimology focuses on femi(ni)cide contexts, offering instructional tools for legal and forensic investigation from a transdisciplinary perspective.

In the post-civil war American south, the despicable act of lynching was commonplace and considered to be a form of vigilantism that was used to murder African Americans for alleged "e;crimes"e; ranging from acting suspiciously to "e;insulting whites"e;.

Women around the world face substantial barriers to reporting their victimization, and in some contexts, the classical criminal justice response to violence can be muted, corrupted, or even inappropriate.

This book assesses the implications of how children and young people are represented in print media in Northern Ireland - a post-conflict transitioning society.

This book focuses on two key aspects of hate crime in the UK since 1945: those motivated by racial and religious prejudices.

Die erste deutschsprachige Untersuchung von Yoga im Strafvollzug bündelt umfassend und interdisziplinär grundlegende Erkenntnisse über eine weit verbreitete und dennoch kaum bekannte Maßnahme im Vollzug.

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 brings together international research from scholars and activists on the forms of violence that older women experience into a unique, comprehensive two-volume set.

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

This book advances conceptualisations and empirical understanding of the prison cell.

This book closes a gap in decolonizing intersectional and comparative research by addressing issues around the mass incarceration of Indigenous women in the US, Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand.

This book uses crime-science and traditional criminological approaches to explore urban crime in the rapidly urbanising country Nigeria, as a case study for urban crime in developing nations.

This book presents the first academic study offering a holistic assessment of violence against women (VAW) in Scotland, both online and offline.

What is a crime and how do we construct it?

This book compiles research on female crime and delinquency in Portugal in order to critically and reflectively explore interdisciplinary views on the link between gender, crime and delinquency.

Collusion by British state forces in killings perpetrated by loyalist paramilitaries was a dubious hallmark of the 'dirty war' in the north of Ireland.