Bei der Lektüre des Bandes 7 TG wird schnell klar, warum Tönnies als Philosoph, als Historiker, als Rechtsgelehrter, als Nationalökonom, als Statistiker, als Essayist und als politischer Schriftsteller so große Beachtung finden konnte.
Refugees and migration are not a new story in the history of humankind, but in the last few years, against a backdrop of huge numbers of migrants, especially from war-torn countries, they have again been a topic of intensive and contentious discussion in politics, the media and scientific publications.
This dual biography highlights the transformative influence of Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith, two journalists who changed American sport and society through their calls to desegregate Major League Baseball and recognize Black baseball players.
This corpus-based study of allusions in the British press shows the range of targets journalists allude to - from Shakespeare to TV soaps, from Jane Austen to Hillary Clinton, from hymns to nursery rhymes, proverbs and riddles.
Der durch zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen als Mafiakenner ausgewiesene Sachbuchautor Werner Raith untersucht die ökonomische Macht der Mafia, die sich vor allem aus dem Drogen- und Waffengeschäft speist; er schildert den mafiosen Verhaltenskodex – die Familie gilt nach wie vor als Grundeinheit der cosa nostra – und ihre politische wie militärische Macht.
Der Mafiaexperte Werner Raith schildert den Antimafiakampf in Italien, analysiert Erfolge und Niederlagen und fragt, welche Schlüsse wir aus dem italienischen Vorgehen für unsere deutschen Verhältnisse ziehen können.
Der ehemalige Mafiaboß Antonino Calderone gibt – in einem von der Polizei geschützten Kloster – die Geheimnisse der sogenannten »Ehrenmänner« preis: die Namen der wichtigsten Familien im Universum der Mafia und deren enge Verflechtung mit der nationalen und internationalen Politik sowie deren geschickte Infiltration der Justiz und der Wirtschaft.
John Dickie erzählt in seinem internationalen Bestseller die spannende Geschichte der Mafia von ihren Anfängen in den Olivenhainen Siziliens, über ihre Erfolgsgeschichte in den USA bis hin zu ihrem Ausbau zur global operierenden Holding.
Originally published in 1995, this book describes and analyzes the way urban parents view the problems of their adolescent children, and the way they have tried to cope with and seek help for them.
In atemberaubendem Tempo entstehen in verborgenen Bereichen des Internets blühende Schwarzmärkte für Waffen, Drogen, Medikamente, falsche Pässe, geklaute Kreditkarten oder Hackerdienste.
This book explores key issues in relation to parole and public opinion, including the relevance of public opinion to parole boards decision-making and strategies for increasing public confidence in parole.
This book updates the recent quantitative and qualitative, empirical and theoretical literature on legitimacy, focusing on how it can be measured in diversified research environments.
This book explores global drug trafficking networks' impact on international security and provides an in-depth analysis of drug trafficking networks globally by integrating international relations and security studies theories.
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 how historical military influences can become embedded and used by the state to control citizens' behaviour, termed the militarisation of behaviours.
Compliance has long been identified by scholars of white-collar crime as a key strategic control device in the regulation of corporations and complex organisations.
This book provides systematic comparative research of antifraud laws and context at EU countries using a Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model to predict illegal activities in ERDF and CF.
This textbook provides an overview of the overlap between the criminal justice system and mental health for students of criminology and criminal justice.
This volume highlights the complex relations between empathy, individualizing and groupish moral intuitions, (anticipated) moral emotions, and moral judgment.
This edited volume presents nine new state-of-the-science chapters covering topics relevant to psychology and law, from established and emerging researchers in the field.
This book explores and formulates a response to the question: How best can those held in modern systems of mass incarceration be cared for pastorally when many prisons diminish both hope and humanity?
This book provides an original cross-thematic and wide scope review of crime prevention processes in urban areas that are explicitly based on the cooperation between different scientific and professional fields.
The book discusses police practices in Uganda, which are understood as fluid and reflective of the socio-political, cognitive and discursive contexts within which the Uganda Police Force (UPF) exist.
This book addresses the challenges within teaching Criminology and Criminal Justice, for students studying and academics involved in designing and delivering courses at an undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Devilry, Deviance, and Public Sphere draws on criminology and social theory to explore and expand social historical themes in the analysis of perceptions of deviance and crime in the eighteenth century.
This book offers up-to-date information and guidance on the application of metrology in legal proceedings, clarifying the limits of validity of scientific evidence and presenting an illuminating series of case studies in which measurement uncertainty has played an important role.
