Crime and criminology

Contemporary police service delivery and performance are complex phenomena.

This brief examines 36,263 homicides in Chicago over a 53-year study period, 1965 through 2017, at micro place grid cells of 150 by 150 meters.

This book explores victims' views of plea negotiations and the level of input that they desire.

This book argues that past inattentive treatment by state criminal justice agencies in relation to domestic abuse is now being self-consciously reversed by neoliberal governing agendas intent on denouncing crime and holding offenders to account.

This book breaks new theoretical ground by constructing a framework of 'relational vulnerability' through which it analyses the disadvantaged position of those who undertake unpaid caregiving, or 'dependency-work', in the context of the private family.

This book offers a unique examination of how violence is situationally induced and reproduced for those inmates living with HIV in a US State prison system.

This book critically explores the world of older prisoners to provide a more nuanced understanding of imprisonment at old age.

This book explores the development of the discipline of Criminology on the island of Ireland, through conversations with leading criminologists.

This book is about the human factor in cybercrime: its offenders, victims and parties involved in tackling cybercrime.

This book explores how an audience of men serving sentences in an English prison responded to viewing five contemporary British prison films.

The profile of prisoners across many Western countries is strikingly similar - 95% male, predominantly undereducated and underemployed, from the most deprived neighbourhoods.

This Brief describes a reality based approach to use-of-force training in law enforcement, an area of growing importance.

This book examines the use of "e;Communities That Care"e; (CTC) interventions in European countries.

This book explores violence against the environment within the broad scope of transnational environmental crime (TEC): its extent, perpetrators, and responses.

This brief comparatively reviews the security and safety features of hotels and home sharing services.

This edited volume explores recent research and developments in the study of organized crime.

This edited collection from leading scholars in the fields of media, communications, cultural studies and a number of aligned areas looks to the intersection of capitalism, crime and the media.

This textbook makes a concerted effort to expose crimes committed by those wielding unfettered personal power and crimes by corporations, business and states, crimes against human and non-human species and the environment.

This edited volume connects the origins of US higher education during the Colonial Era with current systemic characteristics that maintain white supremacist structures and devalue students and faculty of color, as well as areas of study that interrogate Whiteness.

This book offers a unique look into prisons in Iran and the lives of the prisoners and their families.

This book presents new conceptual and theoretical approaches to violence studies.

This book tackles the contentious issue of policing in an age of controversy and uncertainty.

This book examines the theoretical links between Edward W.

This book is a practical guide for advocates interested in the representation of victims before the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The book provides the historical setting of Turkey related to the development of democracy, human rights issues, the treatment of cultural and ethnic minorities, and the short- and long-term consequences of the crackdown including impacts on individuals, institutions like education and the media, the criminal justice system, the economy, and Turkey's standing in the international community.

This book evaluates the impact of situational crime prevention measures implemented by social media platforms to identifying, blocking, and removing content linked to illegal traded medicines.

This book analyzes human rights and crime prevention challenges from the perspective of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda, in particular its goal 16 on promoting peaceful, inclusive and just societies, the creation and development of which depend on the interplay between various secular and non-secular (f)actors.

This book examines South Africa's post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the socio-political project of the "e;new"e; South Africa, best exemplified in their Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings, was fundamentally an affective, emotional project.

This book explores the potential of domestic abuse data to assess the level of harm caused to victims and the amount of resources required to respond to it.

This edited collection of data and perspectives takes a fresh approach to gun violence prevention by addressing the question, "e;why are we losing the war on gun violence in America?

The Psychosocial Imaginaries of Defence Nationalism interrogates the emergence of far-right nationalist 'defence leagues' in Australia and the UK.

This edited volume explores the fundamental aspects of the dark web, ranging from the technologies that power it, the cryptocurrencies that drive its markets, the criminalities it facilitates to the methods that investigators can employ to master it as a strand of open source intelligence.

This book combines the latest in sociology, psychology, and biology to present evidence-based research on what works in community and institutional corrections.

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The book provides a contemporary 'snapshot' of critical debate centred around cybercrime and related issues, to advance theoretical development and inform social and educational policy.

This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries.

This textbook brings criminology theories to life through a wide range of popular works in film, television and video games including 13 Reasons Why, Game of Thrones, The Office, and Super Mario Bros, from a variety of contributors.

The County Lines phenomenon has become one of the most significant drug market developments in the UK over recent years.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of capital punishment in the Australian colonies for the very first time.

This book explores one of the most pressing public policy questions for the 2020s: how should we regulate cannabis?

Addressing common myths and misconceptions about sexual offending, this book highlights the current state of scientific knowledge about the origins and the development of sexual offending.

Focusing on contemporary crime narratives from different parts of the world, this collection of essays explores the mobility of crimes, criminals and investigators across social, cultural and national borders.

This book aims at shifting the emphasis from a general vision of gender-based violence to a more opaque, yet equally destructive one, that related to "e;proximity violence"e;.

This book explores sexual crime and intellectual functioning.

Using data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Hate Crime Statistics Program and the National Crime Victimization Survey, this brief highlights the uniqueness of hate or bias crime victimization.

This book discusses motherhood of Nigerian and Romanian women in Italy and Romania, who are human trafficking victims for sexual purposes.

This brief extends studies on how corporations respond to scandals by examining the evolution of the accounts that corporate agents develop after a scandal becomes public.

This volume is designed to assist university faculty and students studying and teaching about antisemitism, racism, and other forms of prejudice.

This book deals with the widespread economic and financial crime issues of corruption, the shadow economy and money laundering.

This book provides hands-on guidance for researchers and practitioners in criminal justice and criminology to perform statistical analyses and data visualization in the free and open-source software R.