Crime and criminology

Providing practical and theoretical resources on media law and ethics for the United Kingdom and United States of America and referencing other legal jurisdictions such as France, Japan, India, China and Saudi Arabia, Comparative Media Law and Ethics is suitable for upper undergraduate and postgraduate study and for professionals in the media who need to work internationally.

Rethinking Rape Law provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of contemporary rape laws, across a range of jurisdictions.

When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District, he was thrust deep into police culture and the ways of the street--the nerve-rattling patrols, the thriving drug corners, and a world of poverty and violence that outsiders never see.

This innovative introductory textbook to the growing field of cultural criminology examines the importance of understanding the cultural contexts in which crime and crime control take place.

Under the Cover follows the life trajectory of a single work of fiction from its initial inspiration to its reception by reviewers and readers.

The novel The Godfather (1969) and the movie of the same name (1972) entrenched the myth of the Mafiosi as valiant knights, men of honor, and defenders of the traditional concept of family.

The Encyclopedia of Adolescence breaks new ground as an important central resource for the study of adolescence.

James W.

Dying on the Job is the first book on workplace violence to focus exclusively on workplace murder.

This engrossing saga begins when Generoso Pope, Sr.

Philip Meyer's work in precision journalism established a new and ongoing trend-the use by reporters of social science research techniques to increase the depth and accuracy of major stories.

The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice is an international, comprehensive reference tool for the field of Criminology and Criminal Justice that is both cutting edge as well as of very high scientific quality and prestige.

'The third in a series explicating the criminal mind, this volume summarizes observations, interpretations, and conclusions derived from a study of 121 criminal men who used drugs and/or alcohol to excess.

The Criminal Personality presents a detailed description of criminal thinking and action patterns and convincingly argues that these patterns cannot be explained by sociologic or psychologic explanations alone.

Stepping into an IT leadership role for the first time?

This book presents the latest research and developments in forensic archaeology, as discussed at the European Meetings on Forensic Archaeology (EMFA) from 2018 to 2023.

Most people in jail have not been convicted of a crime.

This is the second of a three volume landmark study of the criminal mind.

False charges of racial profiling threaten to obliterate the crime-fighting gains of the last decade, especially in America's inner cities.

The only reader currently available on criminality in Latin America, Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America reconstructs the way in which different Latin American societies have viewed, described, defined, and reacted to criminal behavior.

Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth.

Death in a Texas Desert is a fast-paced collection of 17 compelling true crime stories from the pages of the award-winning The Dallas Observer.

Helms Hall of Fame's brothers William M.

Contrary to the common notion that news regarding the unfolding Holocaust was unavailable or unreliable, news from Europe was often communicated to North American Poles through the Polish-language press.

From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided thrilling escapism for the masses.

In November 2005, Sunni insurgents attacked a U.

Aren't we all TV critics?

During the two decades following entry into World War II, nearly 30 million men and women served in or worked for the United States military.

Following a public argument with her friend Frederick Douglass, Susan B.

For aspiring journalists, the challenges of dyslexia can seem insurmountable, especially in the face of an educational system that is ill-equipped to help.

The book analyzes the process by which the collective image of professional baseball was formed.

This book presents the little-studied story of the history and documents of the pardons, passes, paroles and promises of loyalty used by both North and South.

Evangelical Christianity--the faith professed by one in four Americans--exerts an enormous influence in American society.

When the members of the first baseball players' union formed their own league in open revolt against the reserve clause and other restrictive practices of the National League, baseball journalism became less of a "e;curiosity shop"e; phenomenon and moved into the mainstream.

The death penalty landscape has changed considerably since the 1998 first edition of this book.

Men and women who serve in the armed forces are subject to a different legal code than those they protect.

This book reveals what is happening in small communities across the United States as their newspapers struggle to survive.

In 1923, William Lewis Judy purchased Dog World magazine for just over $1,000.

The Executioner's Toll, 2010 is a meticulous examination of every execution (and the details surrounding the execution) carried out in a single year--and a thought-provoking exploration into the minds of 46 killers as each plays the role of predator, quarry and condemned.

This is a consensus-challenging history of the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers controversy of 1948 to 1950, a criminal case in which Hiss was convicted of perjury after two long trials.

In the 1920s, newspapers and real estate developers colluded in a scheme to sell tiny vacation lots to subscribers.

In the five state region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri, 1027 men and women are known to have been legally hanged, gassed or electrocuted for capital crimes during the century after the Civil War.

In 1946, years before the phrase "e;serial murder"e; was coined, a masked killer terrorized the town of Texarkana on the Texas-Arkansas border.

What role did America's newspaper advice columnists play in shaping and forming societal attitudes toward LGBTQ people throughout the 20th century?

At the conclusion of World War II, war crimes tribunals were carried out at Nuremberg, Germany.

The sharia is a set of traditional laws that define a Muslim's obligations to God and his fellow human beings.

The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007 called for review and reinvestigation of "e;violations of criminal civil rights statutes that occurred not later than December 31, 1969, and resulted in a death.

California was the mining center of the West for half a century.

Daniel Coston's career in photography began accidentally.