Crime and criminology

Barrio Gangs is the most comprehensive academic case study of barrio group dynamics in a major Texas city to date.

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.

The Best Sex Writing series has has fundamentally changed the way people thinkand what they sayabout sexuality.

Cellular Internet of Things: From Massive Deployments to Critical 5G Applications, Second Edition, gives insights into the recent and rapid work performed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and the Multefire Alliance (MFA) to develop systems for the Cellular IoT.

In The Beautiful Prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as something better than a machinery of suffering.

This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance deals with aspects of punishment, including sentencing, incarceration, and prison conditions, in a variety of settings at local, national, and/or regional levels.

The considerable growth of RFID is currently accompanied by the development of numerous identification technologies that complement those already available while seeking to answer new problems.

Chipless RFID based on RF Encoding Particle: Realization, Coding and Reading System explores the field of chipless identification based on the RF Encoding Particle (REP).

RFID and Wireless Sensors using Ultra-Wideband Technology explores how RFID-based technologies are becoming the first choice to realize the last (wireless) link in the chain between each element and the Internet due to their low cost and simplicity.

Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Practice for Deployment addresses WSNs deployment, a mandatory and critical step in the process of developing WSNs solutions for real-life applications.

This third volume of the Wireless Public Safety Networks series explores new tendencies in the Public Safety Networks (PSNs) field, highlighting real-use cases and applications that can be used by practitioners to help victims in the case of danger.

Building a Travel Risk Management Program: Traveler Safety and Duty of Care for Any Organization helps business and security professionals effectively manage traveler risk by showing them how to build a complete travel risk program.

Open source intelligence (OSINT) and web reconnaissance are rich topics for infosec professionals looking for the best ways to sift through the abundance of information widely available online.

Meeting People via WiFi and Bluetooth will contain an overview of how to track people using Wireless 802.

Sports Team Security examines the security needs for sports teams and events of all sizes.

Hospital and Healthcare Security, Fifth Edition, examines the issues inherent to healthcare and hospital security, including licensing, regulatory requirements, litigation, and accreditation standards.

Psychology and Criminal Justice covers the ways that psychology intersects with the criminal justice system, from explaining criminal behavior to helping improve the three criminal justice pillars of policing, courts, and corrections.

As communities continue to undergo rapid demographic shifts that modify their composition, culture, and collective values, police departments serving those communities must evolve accordingly in order to remain effective.

Narrative criminology is an approach to studying crime and other harm that puts stories first.

Almost all incidences of cheating, theft, fraud, or loss can be detected through the surveillance of critical transactions, audit observations, and reviews of key metrics.

Better Crime Prevention provides a critical guide to theory, research, ethics, and politics in relation to crime prevention policy and practice.

Before Spin is the eye-opening autobiography by Keith McDowall.

This collection represents years of struggle in both transgender, gender variant, and queer liberation movements, and the movement against the prison industrial complex.

A revolutionary new approach to policing that puts people over punishment.

The book deals with illicit trafficking in the Mediterranean, seen as a borderline issue between mobility and security under a strongly interdisciplinary approach.

The Zapruder film has been described as "e;the most significant amateur recording of a news event in history.

We now know vastly more about the killing of John F.

If you have ever been tempted to believe that President Kennedy was killed by a lone,demented gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald, then Assassination Science is the one book which will convince you, beyond any reasonable doubt, that there was indeed a conspiracy and a cover-up.

In 1904 William Garrott Brown traveled the American South, investigating the region's political, economic, and social conditions.

The abolishment of flogging in 1850 started the U.

Of all the cultural "e;revolutions"e; brought about by the development of printing technology during the sixteenth century, perhaps the most remarkable but least understood is the purported rise of European vernacular languages.

Though the field of book history has long been divided into discrete national histories, books have seldom been as respectful of national borders as the historians who study themleast of all in the age of Enlightenment when French books reached readers throughout Europe.

A true story of sexual violence, a corrupt property market, and the fight for justice.

Digital Pirates examines the unauthorized creation, distribution, and consumption of movies and music in Brazil.

Despite its image as an epicenter of progressive social policy, New York City continues to have one of the nation's most segregated school systems.

The international refugee regime is fundamentally broken.

Despite the end of white minority rule and the transition to parliamentary democracy, Johannesburg remains haunted by its tortured history of racial segregation and burdened by enduring inequalities in income, opportunities for stable work, and access to decent housing.

In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire.

The first book about Guided Participation written for nursesThis authoritative publication delivers an in-depth examination of Guided Participation (GP), a dynamic process of teaching and learning that parents and guardians have used for generations to help their charges become self-reliant.

In the late 20th century, the United States experienced an incarceration explosion.

Societies have long sought security by identifying potentially dangerous individuals in their midst.

Why do people commit crimes?

In his heyday as a top television news broadcaster, Ed Mitchell interviewed high-profile politicians such as Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair.

Arthur Cheney Train's 'The Complete Mysteries of Mr.

One minute and thirty seconds is the average length allotted to a news feature.

This book presents valuable insights into the realities faced by security personnel as they deal with life-threatening situations in a high-stress security environment.

Access Device Fraud and Related Financial Crimes offers front-line exposure.

The Routledge Handbook on Global Community Corrections assesses and analyzes the status of community corrections systems around the world, highlighting inter-regional and intra-regional variations in their design, implementation, and impact on policy and practice.