Crime and criminology

This book examines the role of 24/7 television news channels in Bangladesh.

This book provides a comprehensive account of community newspapers in India discussing their reach, practices, management and influence on communities.

Fighting crime breeds emotional responses which often lead to counter-productive government policy.

Sexual Murder: Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides is the culmination of the author's 45 years of experience with, and studying, sexually motivated homicide.

In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home.

"e;This is an insightful book that will please anyone interested in midcentury American history and politics.

This book explores how power is negotiated in women's prisons.

This groundbreaking book by Olof DahlbA ck analyzes the direct effects of the environment and the indirect effects of geographical differentiation of individuals on the offender rates of different urban areas.

This book focuses on the criminalization trend and process regarding the internal migration in contemporary China from the perspective Law-in-Action.

Life imprisonment is the punishment most often imposed worldwide for what societies regard as the most serious offences.

Originally published in 1962, this was the first comprehensive study of a group of families often referred to as 'problem families'.

Show Me the Money is the definitive business journalism textbook that offers hands-on advice and insights into the job of a business journalist.

This second edition of Gloria Browne-Marshall's seminal work , tracing the history of racial discrimination in American law from colonial times to the present, is now available with major revisions.

This reader presents a comprehensive review of the research on mass incarceration as it relates to causes, impact, and solutions.

Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet is an insightful account of what happened when the internet first arrived in the 1990s and early 2000s in the recently computerized, but still largely unchanged, newspaper industry.

The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies offers a unique and authoritative collection of essays that report on and address the significant issues and focal debates shaping the innovative field of digital journalism studies.

The recent global financial crisis has been characterised as a turning point in the way we respond to financial crime.

As the most comprehensive edited volume to be published on perpetrators and perpetration of mass violence, the volume sets a new agenda for perpetrator research by bringing together contributions from such diverse disciplines as political science, sociology, social psychology, history, anthropology and gender studies, allowing for a truly interdisciplinary discussion of the phenomenon of perpetration.

The production and consumption of news in the digital era is blurring the boundaries between professionals, citizens and activists.

Pre-crime aims to pre-empt 'would-be-criminals' and predict future crime.

This timely book presents a carefully curated selection of essays to celebrate the career of Nigel South, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Sociology and Criminology of the University of Essex, and one of the leading figures in his field.

A comparative approach to judicial communication offering perspectives on the relationship between national supreme courts and the media covering them.

Was ist wahr, was falsch?

Evidence Based Policing (EBP) exerts significant influence on how actors think, act and speak about UK policing to the point that it is becoming institutionalised.

Modern communications allow the instant dissemination of information and images, creating a sensation of virtual presence at events that occur far away.

Remember: Do it right the first time.

Global criminology is an emerging field covering international and transnational crimes that have not traditionally been the focus of mainstream criminology or criminal justice.

Again and again British politicians, commentators and celebrities intone that 'The War on Drugs has failed'.

"e;The Felon"e; is a fantastic collection of classic essays on the subject of crime by a variety of authors including criminologists, doctors, criminal psychologists, social workers, and more.

This book introduces narrative justice, a new theory of aesthetic education - the thesis that the cultivation of aesthetic or artistic sensibility can both improve moral character and achieve political justice.

This edited collection illuminates the weaknesses and strengths of crime reporting across a wide range of countries, with a focus on democratic countries in which the police bear some accountability to citizens.

This book provides a much-needed gendered reading to the increasingly important practice of political apology.

This richly illustrated two-volume book offers a comprehensive and essential reference guide for veterinary pathologists and clinical veterinarians interested in performing animal necropsies for forensic casework.

Providing in-depth insight into different types of knowledge and skills partnerships in youth justice, this book illustrates the importance of collaborative working between academics and professionals, drawing on empirical research and practice examples to present expert analysis of knowledge/evidence production and utilisation in youth justice.

Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law (1980) is about differences between theory and practice in the Soviet Union.

Survivors from London's ganglandThe third and final chapter in Bobby and David Teale's powerful true story focuses on the shattering consequences of Bobby's secret decision to inform on the Krays, putting himself and his brothers David and Alfie in mortal danger.

Questions concerning the quality of media performance and the effectiveness of media policymaking often revolve around the extent to which the media system fulfills the values inherent in diversity and localism principles.

This book traces the emergence of the modern Chinese press from its origins in the western Christian missionary press in the late nineteenth century.

This book is intended for medical and mental health clinicians faced with the challenge of evaluating adolescents and adults in the legal context who may have a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).

Mobile devices are ubiquitous; therefore, mobile device forensics is absolutely critical.

Compiled with the most sophisticated chromatographic and spectrometric instruments available, this complete and self-contained seven-volume reference provides forensic, toxicology, and clinical laboratories with up-to-date information on 1,600 drugs and drug-related compounds-one of the largest collections of analytical data generated from a single source.

Brings together the major findings of 11 projects funded under the "e;Crime and the Criminal Justice System Initiative"e; by the Economic and Social Research Council in the mid-1980s.

Described by the National Crime Agency as a 'significant threat', county lines involve gangs recruiting vulnerable youth to sell drugs in provincial areas.

This book explores illegal forms of corruption and, more widely, moral and legal forms of corruption.

Forensic Psychology takes a broad-based perspective, incorporating both experimental and clinical topics.

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.

The captivating story of former Wall Street Journal publisher Warren Phillips's rise to the topNewspaperman is at once a fascinating narrative of one man's journey through the newspaper business and an expert analysis of how the news is made.

'We don't just come out once.