Crime and criminology

This book takes an in-depth look at the phenomenon of police officer suicide.

The expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene.

This book explores the history of Dartmoor War Prison (1805-16).

This book analyses the reasons for women's participation in the various Lebanese and Palestinian militias involved in the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990).

This book explores the recent surge in true crime by critically exploring how murder and violence are represented in documentaries, films, podcasts, museums, novels and in the press, and the effects.

This book provides a comprehensive, global exploration of the scale, scope, threats, and drivers of wildlife trafficking from a criminological perspective.

This critical textbook looks beyond the immediate data on knife crime to try and make sense of what is a global phenomenon.

This handbook provides a comprehensive treatise of the concepts and nature of technology-facilitated gendered violence and abuse, as well as legal, community and activist responses to these harms.

Smart societies pose new challenges for police organizations.

With their distinctiveness and stability over time, fingerprints continue to be the most widely used anatomical characteristic in systems that automatically recognize a person's identity.

This superbly illustrated book examines all aspects of the use of modern post-mortem imaging in forensic investigations, which has flourished since the introduction of multidetector computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.

For the first time, the author has explored the intertwinement of written law, Islamic law, and customary law in the highly complex Afghan society, being deeply influenced by traditional cultural and religious convictions.

This brief offers an overview of the prevailing debates in police oversight and accountability through an analysis of policing in Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan.

This book delves deep into the hidden population of former gang members who share their positive and negative experiences of being gang members.

This book seeks to break new ground in the way in which adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse is understood.

This book represents a comprehensive collection of theoretical and empirical work at the nexus of clinical and forensic psychology written by world-renowned experts in the field.

This edited collection is grounded in a green criminological approach to understand whether the law, both in effect and implications, reflects, refracts, or sublimates the social, political and ecological conditions of our times.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, covering a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, cover a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

This initiating monograph provides the first thorough examination of the concept of white-collar crime online.

Where does violence come from?

This edited volume  presents an innovative and critical analysis of corporate compliance from an interdisciplinary and international perspective.

This brief discusses the benefits and various considerations for participants and justice agencies involved in experiential programs for students.

Following the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 2020, and the creation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, there is increased interest in and a need to develop national human rights' bodies for children's rights.

This book focuses on the history of the provision of legal aid and legal assistance to the poor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in eight different countries.

This book provides an up-to-date analysis of major issues in the field of sexual abuse, both established and emerging, and asks how we can develop the most evidence-based, fit-for-purpose approach in responding to and preventing it.

The book analyses the difficulties the International Criminal Court faces with the definition of those persons who are eligible for participating in the proceedings.

It is startling to read how few sexual offenses are reported in a year; even more shocking to see how few reports lead to an arrest.

Athletes are always aiming to be faster, better, stronger.

This book explores the ways in which the state and private security firms contribute to the direct and structural harm of asylum seekers through policies and practices that result in states of perpetual destitution, exclusion, and neglect.

This edited volume examines how the multiple manifestations of social violence in Brazil impacts the building of a peaceful society.

This edited volume examines the experiences and the roles of the police deployed on peacekeeping and intervention missions in Afghanistan, Bougainville, Cyprus, Haiti, Kosovo, Namibia, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste, and Ukraine.

This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and invites readers to push boundaries in their exploration of this important subdiscipline.

This handbook provides a holistic and comprehensive examination of issues related to criminal justice reform in the United States from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This book examines the socio-psychological dynamics and drivers of terrorism from a humanistic perspective.

This brief discusses a series of empirical studies on policing in Cyprus, applying research to practice.

This book examines violence against women in Africa and criminal justice from the perspective of African scholars, practitioners and experts.

This book examines violence against women in Africa and criminal justice from the perspective of African scholars, practitioners and experts.

This brief investigates school shootings and their impact on individual, community, and societal levels.

This book is the first to compare the shared cultural tenets of ancient warbands and outlaw biker gangs.

This edited collection focuses on different aspects of everyday violence, harassment and threats in schools.

The meaning of 'forgiveness' and its role within restorative justice are highly contested.

This edited collection brings together texts that discuss current major issues in our troubled times through the lens of Norbert Elias's sociology.

This edited collection introduces and defines the concept of "e;comparative restorative justice"e;, putting it in the context of power relations and inequality.

This book discusses Stuart Hall's unique contribution to criminology.

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).

This book critically analyses the impact of digital media technologies on police scandal.

This book explores sexual violence and crime in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, a period of intense social and legal change.

This interdisciplinary volume critically explores how the ever-increasing use of automated systems is changing policing, criminal justice systems, and military operations at the national and international level.

This edited book promotes and facilitates cybercrime research by providing a cutting-edge collection of perspectives on the critical usage of online data across platforms, as well as the implementation of both traditional and innovative analysis methods.