Crime and criminology

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.

Forensic Investigation of Clandestine Laboratories, Second Edition is fully updated to address all aspects of the forensic investigation of clandestine laboratories.

The Social Exclusion of Incarcerated Women with Cognitive Disabilities explores the lived experience of cognitively disabled women incarcerated in Australia.

This book is about environmental defenders and the violence they face while seeking to protect their land and the environment.

In three parts, this volume in the AP-LS series explores the phenomena of captivity and risk management, guided and informed by the theory, method, and policy of psychological jurisprudence.

Drawing on several years of research with grief support organizations and the families and friends of murdered children, this book examines the emotional experience of families in the aftermath of a homicide.

Controversies in Innocence Cases in America brings together leading experts on the investigation, litigation, and scholarly analysis of innocence cases in America, from legal, political and ethical perspectives.

The first comprehensive guide to women''s promotion and use of textual culture, in manuscript and print, in Renaissance Italy.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, covering a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

American Criminal Courts: Legal Process and Social Context is an introductory-level text that offers a comprehensive study of the legal processes that guide criminal courts and the social contexts that introduce variations in the activities of actors inside and outside the court.

The world was watching Hong Kong as its sovereignty was returned to China in 1997.

This book provides an anthropological exploration of the ways in which crime is perceived and defined, focusing on notions of truth, intentionality, and evidence.

Long the scourge of developing countries, fake pills are now increasingly common in the United States.

In early twentieth century British India, prior to the arrival of digital medias and after the rise of nationalist political movements, a small-town paper from the margins of society became a key player in Urdu journalism.

This volume of the series was designed to provide a comprehensive primer on the existing best practices and emerging developments in the study and design research on crime and criminology.

Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse is a groundbreaking study into gender, sexuality and victimhood.

This brief offers a unique and innovative account of the role of internet and digital technologies in human smuggling and trafficking.

This volume offers new perspectives on knowledge production through various forms of togetherness.

As public order policing become more prominently widespread so is the need to better explain why some instances of collective action transform into civil disorder.

Crime mapping and analysis sit at the intersection of geocomputation, data visualisation and cartography, spatial statistics, environmental criminology, and crime analysis.

This edited collection is a cultural analysis of how law is shaped into procedure and principle by the conditions of everyday life.

This book examines  the timely issue of police stops as a public and political issue, focussing on the European states.

This book investigates the legitimacy of Economic Criminal Law.

News production, distribution and consumption are in rapidly changing due to the rise of new media.

Private Security and the Law, Third Edition is a textbook analysis of significant practices in the security industry that relate to law, regulation, licensure and constitutional dilemmas according to case and statutory authority.

This book focuses on the testimonial evidence of traumatised witnesses in trials of international crimes, which deal with acts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

This book presents new perspectives on gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa.

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits.

Death has a unique smell.

The United States currently has the largest prison population on the planet.

Over the past 15 years, evidence-based practice in juvenile justice has moved from a concept to a full blown practice in a number of states.

Regulation and control of the financial industry has become the weapon of choice for governments struggling to control the rise in global crime and terrorism.

This concise edited collection explores the practice of peace journalism in East Africa, focusing specifically on the unique political and economic contexts of Uganda and Kenya.

This book reveals the extent, types, investigation, enforcement and governance of international corruption.

Military service involves exposure to multiple sources of chronic, acute, and potentially traumatic stress, especially during deployment and combat.

Evidence Found: An Approach to Crime Scene Investigation is not another analysis of forensic errors using an "e;After the Fact"e; or "e;Lessons Learned"e; approach but a "e;Before the Fact"e; guide that examines the thought processes that can lead to those mistakes.

This book provides an assessment of contemporary international knowledge about the experiences of life after release from prison.

When people pay bribes to foreign public officials, how should the law respond?

This book is a narrative account of the criminal prosecution of three peaceful protesters in Japan during the Iraq War that tells the inside story of their arrests and trial and examines the larger issues raised by the case.

Perhaps no city has a more fabled past than Chicago, home of legendary Al Capone.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of community policing, the philosophy and organizational strategy that expands the traditional police mandate of fighting crime to include forming partnerships with citizenry that endorse mutual support and participation.

Written by two certified human factors/ergonomics professionals and a criminalist and firearms expert, all of whom have testified as expert witnesses, Human Factors in Handgun Safety and Forensics draws on their formidable collective knowledge and professional experience to present the first scientifically based volume in the field.

Forensic Engineering, the latest edition in the Advanced Forensic Science series that grew out of recommendations from the 2009 NAS Report: Strengthening Forensic Science: A Path Forward, serves as a graduate level text for those studying and teaching digital forensic engineering, as well as an excellent reference for a forensic scientist's library or for their use in casework.

This book accurately identifies the various forms of identity theft in simple, easy-to-understand terms, exposes exaggerated and erroneous information, and explains how everyone can take action to protect themselves.