Crime and criminology

This Brief provides specific recommendations for police professionals to reduce the influence of implicit bias on police practice, which will improve both effectiveness (in a shift towards evidence-based, rather than bias-based) practices and police legitimacy.

This introductory volume to a new series on Soil Forensics gives a kaleidoscopic view of a developing forensic expertise.

This book launches a debate on the need to evaluate criminal policies and, what is more complex and ambitious, to develop an evaluation method.

This book presents an historical and sociological account of the Italian mafia-type organisation known as the 'ndrangheta.

This book on the psychology of white collar criminals discusses various cases of financial crime, while also attempting to delve into the minds of the criminals in question.

This book covers organized crime groups, empirical studies of organized crime, criminal finances and money laundering, and crime prevention, gathering some of the most authoritative and well-known scholars in the field.

Originally published in 1985, Imprisonment in England and Wales is an account of the changing functions and conditions of imprisonment in England and Wales from the Medieval period to the present day.

This book challenges the notion that the New Zealand Police are one of only four global police services that does not have routinely armed officers, using arguments and facts drawn from 2000 to 2019, a period of important change for the organisation and its relationship with firearms, particularly following the outrages of the Christchurch mosques terrorist massacres in 2019, and the 2020 shooting death of a young police constable in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This Brief presents the first major release of findings from the Third International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3).

This volume serves to provide an international overview of personal injury compensation in different geographical areas (15 countries already included), with a special focus on the methods used to ascertain the injury and the related damages.

This new edition provides both theoretical and practical background of security and forensics for mobile phones.

This book begins with an introduction to PBXs (Private Branch Exchanges) and the scene, statistics and involved actors.

This unique volume explores why and how youth join and leave gangs, as a lens for exploring intervention and prevention through comparative, international research.

This book examines technical aspects of industrial espionage and its impact in modern companies, organizations, and individuals while emphasizing the importance of intellectual property in the information era.

This authoritative text/reference presents acomprehensive review of algorithms and techniques for face recognition (FR),with an emphasis on systems that can be reliably used in operationalenvironments.

This work compiles experiences and lessons learned in meeting the unique needs of women and children regarding crime prevention and criminal justice, in particular the treatment and social reintegration of offenders and serves as a cross-disciplinary work for academic and policy-making analyses and follow-up in developing and developed countries.

This book introduces andcontextualizes the revised and strengthened legislation on the laundering ofcriminal funds mandated by the European Union on the 20th May 2015.

This book discusses the relationship between juvenile disability and delinquency, including characteristics of youth with disabilities, how disability relates to delinquency, and its impact during a youth's involvement with the juvenile justice system.

This book discusses the role of the prison in Europe across a divide of over 200 years.

This Brief provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of proactive strategies for management transitions in criminal justice and other public administration civic service agencies.

This volume brings together a series of original contributions made by international experts dedicated to guiding efforts in preventing crime.

This atlas leads the reader through the adult autopsy process, and its common variations, with a large number of high-quality macroscopic photographs and concise accompanying text.

This Brief examines criminal careers by providing the most extensive and comprehensive investigation to date on the official offending, self-reported offending, and trajectories of offending of the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) participants.

This book focuses on one part of the judicial system: the criminal justice chain.

Sex work continues to provoke controversial legal and public policy debates world-wide that raise fundamental questions about the state's role in protecting individual rights, status quo social relations, and public health.

This book offers a brand new point of view on immigration detention, pursuing a multidisciplinary approach and presenting new reflections by internationally respected experts from academic and institutional backgrounds.

The book is a comprehensive narration of the use of expertise in international criminal trials offering reflection on standards concerning the quality and presentation of expert evidence.

This book tackles the regulatory issues of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) or Remotely-Piloted Aerial Systems (RPAS), which have profound consequences for privacy, security and other fundamental liberties.

This briefs integrates and synthesizes an array of research about who helps others and under what conditions and discusses the implications of this research for a bystander intervention focused prevention agenda to reduce sexual and relationship violence in schools and communities.

This timely collection explores trust research from many angles while ably demonstrating the potential of cross-discipline collaboration to deepen our understanding of institutional trust.

While confidential informants (CI's) can play a crucial role in police investigations, they also have the potential to cause great harm if they are dishonest.

This Brief presents a framework for understanding the role of school and neighborhood contexts in the development of self-control.

This Brief examines the role of Police Unions in law enforcement policy development.

This book presents a vivid description of the solutions that researchers have discovered for ethical dilemmas that pose themselves at studying disadvantaged, vulnerable and victimized populations.

This book investigates the socio-economic determinants of the emergence and persistence of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria.

This brief takes the reader through a 10-year journey of seeking to embed Evidence Based Policing within one of the largest police forces in the world - the Metropolitan Police Service in London, England - from the inside.

This book challenges the assumptions of modern criminal law that insanity is a natural, legally and medically defined phenomenon (covering a range of medical disorders).

Establishing the unique opportunities and characteristics of doing research in publishing and book studies, this book demonstrates and evaluates the range of research methods that are available to students when conducting research within the field.

This Brief provides a detailed guide to national data sources that collect and report data on homicides in the United States, and some key international sources abroad.

This handbook is unique in its comprehensive coverage of the subject and focus on practical applications in diverse fields.

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This volume examines crimes that violate environmental regulations, as part of an emerging area of criminology known as green criminology.

This book offers a complete and detailed account of the evolution of an internationally successful, evidence-based program that has been the result of almost two decades of action research into conflict and bullying.

This book presents Responsible Adult Culture (RAC), a truly comprehensive program for helping offenders to think and act responsibly.

This compact reference makes the case for a middle ground between clinical and actuarial methods in predicting future violence, domestic violence, and sexual offending.

This book examines how prisons meet challenges of religious diversity, in an era of increasing multiculturalism and globalization.

This book offers new perspectives on gender-based violence in three regions where the subject has been taboo in everyday discourse often due to patriarchal cultural norms that limit women's autonomy.

The current challenges and potential future of peacekeeping in an increasingly complex world take center stage in this far-reaching collection.

This book challenges the quasi-consensus that Latin American countries dominate global homicide rankings mainly due to the illegal nature of drug production and trafficking.

This book provides an in-depth overview of the current research on sexual grooming.