Crime and criminology

During almost ten years I was in elose and frequent contact with Lionel Fox, both as Chiefofthe United Nations Section ofSocial Defence and as a friend.

This is a book about Edwin H.

The present generation lives in a time of transition.

It has been estimated that four-fifths of an carriage of goods by sea are governed by the Hague Rules, properly known as the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Bills of Lading, signed at Brussels in 1924.

Why is ethics important to organizations?

The NATO Advanced Study Institute on the Prevention of Crime and Violence Among the Mentally III was held in May 1999 in Tuscany, Italy.

Psychopathy is a very important concept for those working in the field of criminal justice - investigators, prosecutors, and those who have to evaluate, manage and treat offenders.

Background In July of 1992, approximately sixty scholars and researchers met for a week at the "e;Fritz Erler Akademie"e; in Freudenstadt, Germany, to participate in a workshop entitled "e;Cross-National Lon- gitudinal Research on Human Development and Criminal Behavior"e;.

The Eurogang Paradox is the first comprehensive collection of original research reports on the status of street gangs and problematic youth groups in Europe, as well as a set of special, state-of-the-art reports on the current status of American street gang research and its implications for the European gang situation.

This is a book about fishermen's reasons for obeying fisheries law.

When Wolfgang Friedmann died there was a great outpouring of grief, affection and admiration from his friends all over the world.

Katherine Teilmann Van Dusen and Sarnoff A.

The New Police Officer During the past twenty years the tasks required of police officers have expanded and changed with dramatic rapidi ty.

The thirty-five chapters in this book are edited versions of papers presented at the Advanced Research Workshop, State Intervention on Behalf of Children and Youth, which took place in Maratea, Italy, February 20-24, 1989.

Malcolm W.

This book is about 'Kantianism' in both a narrow and a broad sense.

Over the last twenty-five years the significance of criminal justice has dramatically changed.

The book is a collection of essays, which aim to situate African legal theory in the context of the myriad of contemporary global challenges; from the prevalence of war to the misery of poverty and disease to the crises of the environment.

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of why taxpayers behave the way they do.

The book focusses on questions of individual and collective action, the emergence and dynamics of social norms and the feedback between individual behaviour and social phenomena.

Crime, terrorism and security are in the forefront of current societal concerns.

This volume provides an overview of (1) the physical and chemical foundations of dating methods and (2) the applications of dating methods in the geological sciences, biology, and archaeology, in almost 200 articles from over 200 international authors.

This book presents a definition of terrorism that is broad and descriptive and much needed to prevent misunderstanding.

The Children's Court is one of society's most important social institutions.

The book applies the principle of proportionality to a number of conventional wisdoms in the social sciences, such as in dubio pro reo and the assumption that a crime is always a crime; that you must go to war if instructed to do so.

This book brings together twelve of the most important legal philosophers in the Anglo-American and Civil Law traditions.

Recent years in North America have seen a rapid development in the area of crime analysis and mapping using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology.

This book addresses the problem of justifying the institution of criminal punishment.

This book analyzes heroin users and the drug subculture on the Shetland Islands, an area known for its geographical remoteness, rural character and relative wealth.

What drives the lone wolf terrorist to commit mass violence?

The terrorist attacks occurred in the United States on 11 September 2001 have profoundly altered and reshaped the priorities of criminal justice systems around the world.

How does the city's urban fabric relate to crime and fear, and how is that fabric affected by crime and fear?

In the current processes of political, economic and cultural changes serious cross-border forms of organized crime receive unprecedented attention as spectacular global media events, as 'threats' of all sorts, and as priority targets of criminal policy and political agendas.

This edited collection reflects contemporary challenges faced by police forces across the globe and the role of technology in addressing them.

This volume provides discussions of both the concept of responsibility and of punishment, and of both individual and collective responsibility.

This timely interdisciplinary work on current developments in ICT and privacy/data protection, coincides as it does with the rethinking of the Data Protection Directive, the contentious debates on data sharing with the USA (SWIFT, PNR) and the judicial and political resistance against data retention.

This volume presents reflections on a variety of environmental issues in South-Eastern Europe from diverse contemporary scientific disciplines.

More than a neighbourhood, the fittingly titled Diagonal Lane is a circus of characters with the most comically absurdist approaches to life.

This book provides a comprehensive study of border control: from data analysis andinformation warfare, frameworks for command and control, and game-theoretic riskmanagement, up to the (optimal) deployment of law enforcement missions.

With a foreword by Major-General Nico Geerts, Commander Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda, The NetherlandsInternational conflict resolution increasingly involves the use of non-military power and non-kinetic capabilities alongside military capabilities in the face of hybrid threats.

Journalism is complicated business: journalists are paid by management but work for the citizens; they tend to be self-taught (there is little evidence of mentoring and much disdain for journalism schools); and they need to be objective even when they're not impartial.

This book examines the position of 'contextual elements' as a constitutive element of the legal definition of the crime of genocide, and determines the extent to which an individual genocidaire is required to act within a particular genocidal context.

A bold and audacious take on the subject of freedom of expression.

Forensic genetic technologies are popularly conceptualized and revered as important tools of justice.

This book presents and uses a major, new database of the most serious forms of internal resistance to the Nazi state to study empirically the whole phenomenon of resistance to an authoritarian regime.

The book highlights the root cause of human trafficking and analyses how factors of vulnerability affect the marginalized, especially during and after a disaster.