Crime and criminology

The volume aims to increase knowledge and understanding of how evidence-based policing is being adopted and implemented by police agencies in the United States and whether it is affecting the agencies' processes, strategies, community relationships and delivery of community-oriented policing services.

This book examines internal fraud investigations in public and private organizations.

This book undertakes a psychotropic analysis of texts that deal with the violence of drug trafficking and interdiction, especially in Mexico.

This book provides the student, researcher or practitioner with the tools to understand many of the most commonly used advanced statistical analysis tools in criminology and criminal justice, and also to apply them to research problems.

This book provides a critical discussion of the way in which religion influences: criminal and antisocial behaviour, punishment and the law, intergroup conflict and peace-making, and the rehabilitation of offenders.

This book provides an up-to-date analysis of major issues in the field of sexual abuse, both established and emerging, and asks how we can develop the most evidence-based, fit-for-purpose approach in responding to and preventing it.

This book examines expectations for justice in transitional societies and how stakeholder expectations are ignored, marginalized and co-opted by institutions in the wake of conflict.

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This book challenges the given dichotomies between crime and harm, and criminology and zemiology.

This book considers the law, policy and procedure for child witnesses in Australian criminal courts across the twentieth century.

This work introduces the reader to the world of digital forensics in a practical and accessible manner.

This book examines the role of religion and spirituality in desistance from crime and disengagement from gangs.

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.

This Brief provides an in-depth look at crime and corruption in Russian Law Enforcement, in the fifteen years since the 2009 police reforms.

Unlike much of the existing literature on organised crime, this book is less focused on the problem per se as it is on understanding its implications.

This book looks at the past, present and possible future relationship between the EU and the UK in the fields of law enforcement and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.

This book expands the field of prison research by drawing on six months of unique, ethnographic research in Santa Monica prison, the largest women's prison in Lima, Peru.

Blockchains and cryptocurrencies, open banking, virtual assets, and artificial intelligence have become the buzzword of this decade.

How do ordinary people experience and make sense of the informal justice system?

This book is the first interdisciplinary study of the rule of law in an environment of complementary culture.

This book offers a unique look into prisons in Iran and the lives of the prisoners and their families.

This book explores the representation of real-life serial murders as adapted for the screen and popular culture.

This book examines American solitary confinement - in which around 100,000 prisoners are held at any one time - and argues that under a moral reading of individual rights such punishment is not only a matter of public interest, but requires close constitutional scrutiny.

This volume looks at the emerging perspective to the social license and white-collar and corporate crime in criminal justice.

This handbook provides a holistic and comprehensive examination of issues related to criminal justice reform in the United States from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This edited collection is concerned with the ideas, challenges, demands and framework of conditions behind police education from an international perspective.

This book tackles the contentious issue of policing in an age of controversy and uncertainty.

The County Lines phenomenon has become one of the most significant drug market developments in the UK over recent years.

This edited book promotes and facilitates cybercrime research by providing a cutting-edge collection of perspectives on the critical usage of online data across platforms, as well as the implementation of both traditional and innovative analysis methods.

This book analyses the reasons for women's participation in the various Lebanese and Palestinian militias involved in the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990).

This book examines the ways that brothels are managed under decriminalisation in New Zealand.

This book adds to knowledge about chief police officers in England and Wales by exploring their understandings of the right of police to exercise power.

This book brings together leading authorities from the fields of international human rights law, criminology, legal medicine, and political science with international human rights judges and UN experts to analyze the current situation of detainees in Europe, the Americas and Africa.

This book provides a brief introduction to the growing field of animal maltreatment evaluation and treatment, with a special emphasis on clinical training from a forensic psychology perspective.

This book provides in-depth coverage of guns, gun violence and gun homicides from a variety of perspectives, including, but not limited to, gender, suicide, peaceology and police (in)action.

This book, based on field research in the West African country of The Gambia, explores how domestic gun control is shaped by international efforts and how local actors interact with international organizations or opt not to do so.

This book provides inspiration for social workers to explore the possibilities of using Photovoice to engage with communities.

This textbook provides an overview of the major types of fraud and corrupt activities found in private and public agencies, as well as the various methods used to prevent fraud and corruption.

This book proposes an interdisciplinary, multicultural and contemporary approach to examining the controversial links between migration and crime.

Brazilian authorities continuously fail to comply with international norms on minimal conditions of incarceration.

This book aims to increase understanding of alibis and corroborators, examining the role alibis play - or fail to play - in innocence cases.

This book examines the topical issue of global drug policy and outlines five steps that could be taken to improve its effectiveness.

This book explores how the construction and contestation of victims in societies emerging from conflict impact processes of peacebuilding.

Grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT), this book examines black and mixed-race men and women's experiences of policing in the UK.

Der Band widmet sich Praktiken der Zeugenschaft in gerichtlichen und außergerichtlichen Kontexten.

This book critically explores the development of radical criminology through a range of written Ancient Greek works including epic and lyrical poetry, drama and philosophy, across different chapters.

Human trafficking has come to be seen as a growing threat, and transnational advocacy networks opposed to human trafficking have succeeded in establishing trafficking as a pressing political problem.

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This collection considers human rights and incarceration in relation to the liberal-democratic states of Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

This innovative book examines the use of ethnography and fieldwork in Criminology and Criminal Justice Research.