Crime and criminology

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Human Trafficking provides a critical engagement with the key debates on human trade.

Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment examines criminal sentencing courts' changing characterisations of Indigenous peoples' identity, culture and postcolonial status.

This book assesses the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), examining both implementation and compliance.

With the growth of printing in early modern Germany, crime quickly became a subject of wide public discourse.

Gender-based violence is a global phenomenon which affects millions worldwide.

The fourth edition of Criminology: The Basics has been fully revised and updated to offer an engaging and concise introduction to the main themes and concerns of this compelling and complex subject and gives an overview of the main theoretical and conceptual approaches to crime and justice.

This book provides an extensive overview of producing in the ever-changing field of journalism for all types of newsrooms.

Mi Rinconcito en el Cielo (My Little Corner of the Sky) tells the remarkable story of Alberto "e;Beto"e; Gonzales, who overcame a childhood of poverty, addiction, bigotry, and violence and went on to change the lives of thousands of children and adults as a mentor and gang prevention specialist.

You are the first to arrive at the scene.

This distinctive volume offers a thorough examination of the ways in which meaning comes to be shaped.

This book brings together a selection of papers originally presented and discussed at the fourth international restorative justice conference, held at the University of TAbingen.

Sellers marshals diverse evidence, resulting in this comprehensive and unprecedented examination of politicians'' promotional campaigns and journalists'' coverage of those campaigns.

White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense.

Presenting the hard science increasingly required by courts to back up expert opinion in cases that hinge on impression evidence comparison, this book applies the methods of physics, chemistry, and engineering to analysis and interpretation of fingerprints, footwear and tire tread impressions, and bloodstains.

Rasmus Wandall uses quantitative and qualitative methods from studies carried out in Denmark, to address the formal and informal norms and ideologies that are used to generate decisions to imprison.

Understanding the Modern Russian Police represents the culmination of ten years of research and an ongoing partnership between the Volgograd Academy of Russian Internal Affairs Ministry (VA MVD) and the Volgograd branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (VAPA).

This book integrates new material, using sources from the eighteenth and nineteenth century periodical press, research with contemporary readers, the authors' critical reading of past and present magazines, and a clear discussion of theoretical approaches from literary criticism.

Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging interdisciplinary field of critical forensic studies.

The Criminal Personality presents a detailed description of criminal thinking and action patterns and convincingly argues that these patterns cannot be explained by sociologic or psychologic explanations alone.

First published in 2004.

Offering rare insiders perspectives, Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World is a comprehensive survey of correctional programming and management styles used across nations.

The US-led war on drugs has failed: drugs remain purer, cheaper and more readily available than ever.

This book provides an original theoretically and empirically grounded analysis of regulatory enforcement activism in post-crisis periods and the ensuing regulatory interactions.

The Netflix series Orange is the New Black has drawn widespread attention to many of the dysfunctions of prisons and the impact prisons have on those who live and work behind the prison gates.

From 1880 to 1920, the first truly national visual culture developed in the United States as a result of the completion of the Pacific Railroad.

This book is a study of the British casino industry and how it has been shaped by criminality, prohibition, regulation and liberalization since the beginning of the First World War.

This is the first biography of Stanley Mosk (1912-2001), iconic protector of civil rights and civil liberties during his 37 years as a justice of the Supreme Court of California (1964 to 2001).

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This book discusses multiple aspects of radiological and nuclear terrorism.

This book explores pain in a number of ways.

Academic Writing with Corpora offers an accessible guide to using corpora in academic writing successfully and productively.

Deviant behavior is not a subject that you study in school and then file away.

Arguing that American colonists who declared their independence in 1776 remained tied to England by both habit and inclination, Jennifer Clark traces the new Americans' struggle to come to terms with their loss of identity as British, and particularly English, citizens.

Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and disciplinary boundaries.

What are the requirements for a just response to criminal wrongdoing?

Explaining cybercrime in a highly networked world, this book provides a comprehensive yet accessible summary of the history, modern developments, and efforts to combat cybercrime in various forms at all levels of government-international, national, state, and local.

Memory and Sexual Misconduct: Psychological Research for Criminal Justice investigates the veracity of memories of sexual misconduct and the factors that may influence accurate recall, and fundamentally assesses whether psychological science can help the criminal justice system in determining which accusations are likely to be accurate, and which are not.

This important book defines what investigative reporting is and what qualities it requires.

This book looks at rape myths and rape culture within the university environment, examining the development of social identities in the creation and support of such culture.

In 1996, the National Issues Convention (NIC) assembled a national sample of 459 Americans on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.

Since the publication of the first edition in 1991, there has been substantial progress in our understanding of the etiology and associated features of domestic violence.

A definitive resource for understanding such far-reaching and often interconnected crimes as cyber theft, drug trafficking, human smuggling, identity theft, wildlife poaching, and sex tourism.

Coercive medico-legal interventions are often employed to prevent people deemed to be unable to make competent decisions about their health, such as minors, people with mental illness, disability or problematic alcohol or other drug use, from harming themselves or others.

Scotland has often been regarded throughout history as "e;the violent north"e;, but how true is this statement?

The Veterans Treatment Court Movement provides a comprehensive, empirical analysis of the burgeoning veteran's court movement from genesis through to operation, and concluding with comments on its societal relevance.

This book analyses gendered language in Italian, shedding light on how the Italian language constructs and reproduces the social imbalance between women and men, and presenting indirect and direct instances of asymmetrical constructions of gender in public and private roles.