Crime and criminology

I took some good shots from him and then I opened up my arsenal and we traded toe to toe.

This thoroughly revised second edition is an examination of domestic violence from social, legal, and historical perspectives.

Through the professional life of Dave Dick, the RSPB's Senior Scottish Investigation Officer between 1984 and 2006, the often murky world of wildlife crime is revealed.

Illegal trade in wildlife is now recognized as one of the most significant criminal activities in the world, bringing billions of dollars in illicit profits to organized crime groups and networks, which are acknowledged to control much of this trafficking.

* Gang crime on the streets of Britain is never out of the headlines * The level of gang violence is increasing: One Bloodexplains how and why * Unique access and insight into the problem by a critically acclaimed journalist who has spent time with gang members from all parts of the UK.

This book builds on an earlier publication by the same author: The Misuse of Drugs Act: A Guide for Forensic Scientists.

This book traces the history of television journalism in Britain from its austere roots in the BBC's post-war monopoly to the present-day plethora of 24 hour channels and celebrity presenters.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

Over the past two decades, there have been a series of events that have brought into question the concept and practice of free expression.

Over the past two decades, there have been a series of events that have brought into question the concept and practice of free expression.

'A brilliant synthetic essay of theoretical importance in its own right.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

Why are there so many nature metaphors - clouds, rivers, streams, viruses, and bugs - in the language of the internet?

This book traces the history of television journalism in Britain from its austere roots in the BBC's post-war monopoly to the present-day plethora of 24 hour channels and celebrity presenters.

Complacency and Collusion focuses on the practice of financial and business journalism, giving compelling explanations for why big business needs the press and why the press needs big business.

Complacency and Collusion focuses on the practice of financial and business journalism, giving compelling explanations for why big business needs the press and why the press needs big business.

This book lifts the lid on the reality of Afghanistan's growing drug trade and the role played by the US military in its trajectory.

This book lifts the lid on the reality of Afghanistan's growing drug trade and the role played by the US military in its trajectory.

*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2013* The exposure of undercover policeman Mark Kennedy in the eco-activist movement revealed how the state monitors and undermines political activism.

*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2013* The exposure of undercover policeman Mark Kennedy in the eco-activist movement revealed how the state monitors and undermines political activism.

From the excesses of Puritan patriarchs to the barbarism of slavery and on into the prison-industrial complex, punishment in the US has a long and gruesome history.

Ted Honderich's Punishment is the best-known book on the justifications put forward for state punishment.

'Afghanistan is seen as a major drug producer, but its own people are becoming the victims.

This book explores the underbelly of globalisation - the illicit networks of money, drugs, people and arms that make up a multi-billion dollar illegal economy.

Crime forms only a small and often insignificant amount of the harm experienced by people.

Organised crime makes good copy.

This volume contains contributions on the theme of popular culture, crime, and social control.

This volume of "e;Studies in Law, Politics, and Society"e; presents a unique special issue "e;Is the Death Penalty Dying?

"e;Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance"e; is an annual series of volumes that publishes scholarly work in criminology and criminal justice studies, sociology of law, and the sociology of deviance.

This volume presents recent insights in the sociological study of surveillance and governance in the context of criminal justice and other control strategies.

In three taut essays, Kristian Williams examines our society's understanding of social and political violence, what gets romanticized, misunderstood, or muddled.

Anarchists were among the earliest modern thinkers to offer a systemic critique of criminal justice and among the first to directly criticize academic criminology while formulating a critical criminology.

The world as we know it is undergoing a sudden and violent transformation, unlike anything the planet has experienced since the Cretaceous Extinction.

"e;A book of rare power and beauty, majestic in its structure, filled with the truth of imagination and the truth of actuality, emphatic in its declarations and noble in its reach.

A Lambda Literary Award finalist, Captive Genders is a powerful tool against the prison industrial complex and for queer liberation.

Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing.

Though pillage, profit, and plunder have been a mainstay of war since pre-colonial times, there is little contemporary focus on the role of finance and economics in today's "e;Drug Wars"e;despite the fact that they boost US banks and fill our prisons with poor people.

"e;There was a time I believed prisons existed to rehabilitate people, to make our communities safer.

This collection represents years of struggle in both transgender, gender variant, and queer liberation movements, and the movement against the prison industrial complex.

Have the music and movie industries lost the battle to criminalize downloading?

Written by two practitioner-academics (who between them have more than fifty years of news industry experience), News Values analyses the shape of the news industry - a world of rolling news and multimedia platforms, and a world where broadcast news is increasingly considered another element of show business.

This lively and accessible text provides an introduction to the history of crime and crime control.

What are `alternative media'?

`The quite extraordinary phenomenon of mass imprisonment in the USA needs, above all, to be identified.

`This timely collection contains contemporary case studies and critical analyses by leading writers in the study of white collar corporate crime.

Surveillance has a long-standing relationship with crime and its identification, prevention, detection and punishment.

In a world where global flows of people and commodities are on the increase, crimes related to illegal trafficking are creating new concerns for society.

The charming and enthralling story of an idiosyncratic English-language newspaper in Rome and the lives of its staffers as the paper fights for survival in the internet age.