Crime and criminology

This book examines communication between police and residents of a designated crime 'hotspot' community in the Global South.

This brief analyzes the social, historical and societal circumstances influencing the emergence of Islamist extremism in Kosovo and countries of the region.

In this book, Nik Taylor and Heather Fraser consider how we might better understand human-animal companionship in the context of domestic violence.

This international edited volume is a rare look at cultural, economic and political forces that contribute to school violence.

This book delves into humanity's compulsive need to valorize criminals.

This book critically examines the last few decades of discussion around sex and violence in the media, on social media, in the courtroom and through legislation.

3D bioprinting is an emerging innovative technology that involves the fabrication of essential 3D functional biomedical constructs by combining cells and biomaterials with vital growth and differentiation factors.

This book focuses on the experience of imprisonment from the perspectives of individuals with sexual convictions.

This book explores the nature and impact of stalking and criminal justice system responses to this type of abuse based on the experiences and lived realities of victims.

The Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture will be an essential reference point, providing international coverage and thematic richness.

The fifth edition of the best-selling Principles in Forensic Toxicology continues in the tradition of excellence in academic publishing.

In this monograph, the ethical implications of engaging in research with vulnerable populations is explored and demonstrates how Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) both enhances the research while addressing these ethical complexities.

This book, the first of a two volume study, provides an historical account of complaints against Metropolitan police officers between formation of the force in 1829 and codification of remedies for misconduct under the Police Act 1964.

This book examines how judicial reform can be effectively assessed through a procedural justice approach.

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

Clinical and Psychological Perspectives on Foul Play examines a wide range of factors that can influence how police determine foul play in possible homicide cases and in other possible crimes.

Taylor brings an ethnographer's eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border.

This book offers a systematic, sociological and penological exploration of the most up-to-date uses of electronic tagging (also known as electronic monitoring).

This accessible book examines poisoning in various contexts of international conflict.

This book draws on research into darknet cryptomarkets to examine themes of cybercrime, cybersecurity, illicit markets and drug use.

This book charts contemporary developments in counter-extremism within the UK education sector.

This introductory textbook takes a building-block approach that emphasizes the application and interpretation of statistics in research in crime and justice.

This book offers a rare and innovative consideration of an enduring tendency in postwar art to explore places devoid of human agents in the wake of violent encounters.

This book offers a new look at international security management combining practical applications and theoretical foundations for new solutions to today's complex security and safety challenges.

This book explores the consumption of counterfeit fashion goods.

This book outlines the theory of convenience for white-collar crime to explain what motivates and enables offenders, providing a unique focus on white-collar crime in the business context.

This book seeks to explain why the concept of justice is critical to the study of criminal justice.

This Palgrave Pivot surveys facts and cases exhibiting and exemplifying corruption in sport.

This book provides a detailed examination of the threats and dangers facing the West at the far end of the cybersecurity spectrum.

This volume explores contemporary social conflict, focusing on a sort of violence that rarely receives coverage in the evening news.

This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and invites readers to push boundaries in their exploration of this important subdiscipline.

This richly illustrated two-volume book offers a comprehensive and essential reference guide for veterinary pathologists and clinical veterinarians interested in performing animal necropsies for forensic casework.

This book explains the existence of illicit markets throughout human history and provides recommendations to governments.

Using recent research and case studies, this book offers an evidence-based insight into the embezzler's mindset as they commit crimes that are costing nations, organisations and individuals increasingly more each year.

This textbook brings criminology theories to life through a wide range of popular works in film, television and video games including 13 Reasons Why, Game of Thrones, The Office, and Super Mario Bros, from a variety of contributors.

This book explores the emergence of an ius puniendi outside state criminal law and beyond international criminal law.

This collection is the first exploration into green crime in Mexico, offering a unique critique of the environmental problems facing Mexico today.

This book is the first systematic investigation into the problem of timber trafficking in Vietnam, providing a detailed understanding of the typology of, victimization from, and key factors driving this crime.

This Brief proposes best practices for assessment and intervention with sex trafficking survivors, rooted in the existing theory and practice literatures.

This book seeks to bring understanding of both complexity and temporality into criminology.

This textbook focuses on the criminality and victimization of the elderly population.

This exciting and timely collection showcases recent work on Cybercrime by members of Uclan Cybercrime Research Unit [UCRU], directed by Dr Tim Owen at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

This edited collection provides an original and comprehensive take on retail crime and its prevention, by combining international data and multidisciplinary perspectives from criminologists, economists, geographers, police officers and other experts.

This book uses global case studies of white-collar crime to examine offenders in top business positions and their motives.

This brief discusses a series of empirical studies on policing in Cyprus, applying research to practice.

This book examines how historical military influences can become embedded and used by the state to control citizens' behaviour, termed the militarisation of behaviours.

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

This edited collection from leading scholars in the fields of media, communications, cultural studies and a number of aligned areas looks to the intersection of capitalism, crime and the media.

This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries.

This third edition of the highly successful textbook, acclaimed for its comprehensiveness, accuracy, and excellent illustrations and photographs now comes with updated coverage plus numerous didactical improvements:The number of figures has notably increased, with about one third of them now presented in color.