Crime and criminology

This edited volume offers a state-of-the-art synthesis of the historical role of radical journalism, its present iterations, and plans for the future of a journalism that is committed to liberatory movements and politics.

Almost 330,000 children in America are in prison, in a detention center, on probation or parole, or otherwise under the control of the criminal justice system.

In the courtroom, critical and life-changing decisions are made based on quantitative forensic science data.

There are an estimated 40,000 international Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), working in an enormous global aid industry; official development assistance alone reached GBP90bn in 2014.

Since its first publication, this essential guide to book commissioning has established itself as the one and only 'must-read' for any successful editor, and the core training text used both within publishing houses and on publishing courses worldwide.

What is the definition of 'crime'?

Designed with the beginning journalism student in mind, this undergraduate textbook for fledgling reporters is a reference guide and an instructive text full of real-world examples and writing exercises.

Writing Feature Articles presents clear and engaging advice for students and young professionals on working as a freelance feature writer.

This book uncovers the influence of racial and prejudicial stereotyping during police investigation of suspects from stigmatised communities.

Criminological and penological scholarship has in recent years explored how and why institutions and systems of punishment change - and how and why these changes differ in different contexts.

This book provides a normative analysis of the justifications and limits of asset confiscation as a crime control measure in a comparative perspective.

Increasingly governments around the world are experimenting with initiatives in transparency or 'open government'.

Providing a comprehensive exploration, this volume explains connections between American culture and the incidence of serial murder, including reasons why most identified serial murderers are white, male Americans.

The overall rate of incarceration in the United States has been on the rise since 1970s, skyrocketing during Ronald Reagan's presidency, and recently reaching unprecedented highs.

Sykes' The Society of Captives has stood as a classic of modern penology for nearly 60 years.

In April 1956, Portland Oregonian investigative reporters Wallace Turner and William Lambert exposed organized crime rackets and rampant corruption within Portlands law enforcement institutions.

Here is the most up-to-the-minute interdisciplinary research that has been conducted on older offenders.

This book provides an important overview of key criminology and criminal justice concerns in Japan.

Freedom of the press is the cornerstone of democracy.

Examining two overlapping aspects of the prison experience that, despite their central importance, have not attracted the scholarly attention they deserve, this book assesses both the degree to which prisoners can withstand the rigours of solitude and how they experience the passing of time.

Forensic Document Examination enlightens forensic document examiners, forensic investigators, attorneys and others using the services of forensic document examiners with the basic principles and current trends in the area.

Through innovative research studies and expert commentaries, this book documents the fast evolving invention of the relationship between the millions of social media and mobile phone users around Africa and traditional purveyors of news.

This book provides a concise but comprehensive review of the full range of classic and contemporary theories of crime.

Since the early 1990s, Elsa Cuellar was able to operate in a way that left no trail.

Capital punishment, serial killings, war, terrorism, abortion, honour killings, euthanasia, suicide bombings, war, and genocide: all involve the taking of life.

Media relations are a vital tool for helping property companies build shareholder value through stronger brands, develop reputations that drive a flow of new work, and help sell and let properties faster and at a fraction of the cost of other marketing techniques, but such relationships need to be managed properly.

In March 1912, Gene Grace, a young Atlanta businessman, was found shot in the locked bedroom of his fashionable home "e;between the Peachtrees.

Bringing together an international group of authors, this book addresses the important issues lying at the intersection between urban space, on the one hand, and incivilities and urban harm, on the other.

The Write Track is a personal and practical look at the author's freelance experience as she tells how she made it from uncertain early days to the growing confidence of a veteran.

This book tells a story of successful prison reform that brought the recidivism rate of prisoners down from 44% to 24%.

This book critically assesses legal frameworks involving the bulk processing of personal data, initially collected by the private sector, to predict and prevent crime through advanced profiling technologies.

Providing a comparative analysis of both vulnerable witnesses and vulnerable suspects, this book discusses the increasingly difficult issue faced by many in modern policing, forensic psychology, criminology, and social justice studies.

Can News Outlets Regain the Public's Confidence?

Child Sexual Abuse: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact, and Management covers the issue of child sexual abuse from several viewpoints.

The police rely heavily on paid and unpaid informers: without them clear-up rates would plummet, and many crimes would remain undetected.

This book considers how legal reforms and awareness raising associated with building the rule of law have engaged the popular legal consciousness, producing contradictions that have in turn shaped the nature of the resultant legality.

Crime research has grown substantially over the past decade, with a rise in evidence-informed approaches to criminal justice, statistics-driven decision-making and predictive analytics.

Economic and democratic theory justify deviations from free trade in media products.

This ground-breaking volume examines enduring and emerging discourses around communication rights in Africa, arguing that they should be considered an integral component of the human rights discourse in Africa.

Captivating, concise, and current,A Essentials of Terrorism: Concepts and ControversiesA introduces readers to the modern landscape of domestic and international terrorism.

"e;Neatly and succinctly takes readers through ways to understand and interpret the label of 'antisocial' behaviour in a wider context, showing how it is socially, historically and culturally produced as well as understood in professional health and policing or correctional contexts.

A female professor, a super maximum security prisoner, and how Shakespeare saved them bothShakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all.

This powerful retrospective analysis of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting aftermath considers society's response to the attack, long-term implications of the shooting, and the ways in which research and related policy must continue to move forward.

This book taps neuroscience and neuropsychology to provide hard facts about brain conditions and the behavior that emerges from powerful brain chemistry-a fascinating read for adolescents, parents, and teachers alike.

Barrio Gangs is the most comprehensive academic case study of barrio group dynamics in a major Texas city to date.

State Crime and Civil Activism explores the work of non-government organisations (NGOs) challenging state violence and corruption in six countries - Colombia, Tunisia, Kenya, Turkey, Myanmar and Papua New Guinea.

This book offers rich ethnographic and narrative accounts of men who have been engaged in serious violence and organised crime in the West Midlands of England, using several theoretical paradigms.

In The Beautiful Prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as something better than a machinery of suffering.