Crime and criminology

A Kansas Notable BookMa Barker and Pretty Boy Floyd once shot their way across the state, and Bonnie and Clyde were known to travel within its borders.

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Too often students in economics emerge with a clear grasp of theory, but precious little ability to apply that theory, especially in the area of microeconomics.

Some have estimated that healthcare fraud in the United States results in losses of approximately $80 billion a year.

There is a growing acknowledgment amongst professionals and academics that we need to develop new responses to crime.

This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance edited by Mathieu Deflem addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order.

Winner of the 2021 ESC Book Award.

In Bloodstain Pattern Evidence, the concepts introduced in the author's first book, Blood Dynamics, are updated and applied to provide essential answers in the resolution of actual crimes.

Design and Evaluation of Physical Security Systems, Second Edition, includes updated references to security expectations and changes since 9/11.

Communications is key to the success of disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.

In a revised and updated edition, this book continues the debate on whether transplantable organs of executed capital felons should be used to save lives.

These mystifying and spine-tingling stories are just what the doctor ordered and they are all true.

An upright citizen kidnapped in public and dumped in a shallow grave.

By developing a new analytical method of narrative discourse analysis, this study introduces new insights from literary studies and narratology into International Relations.

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On June 24, 1973, a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people.

A rare behind-the-scenes look at the work of forensic scientistsThe findings of forensic science-from DNA profiles and chemical identifications of illegal drugs to comparisons of bullets, fingerprints, and shoeprints-are widely used in police investigations and courtroom proceedings.

How global organized crime shapes the politics of borders in modern conflictsSeparatism has been on the rise across the world since the end of the Cold War, dividing countries through political strife, ethnic conflict, and civil war, and redrawing the political map.

This book provides an in-depth examination of the judicial response at the internationalcriminal tribunals (ICTs) to the violation of procedural standards in thepre-trial phase of proceedings.

Should the Supreme Court have the last word when it comes to interpreting the Constitution?

Even after WWI had ended, the region of Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas stubbornly refused to be tamed.

How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court-and denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of colorThe number of Americans arrested, brought to court, and incarcerated has skyrocketed in recent decades.

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Discover how forensic scientists are changing how we solve crime REVISED UPDATED EDITION The most remarkable weapon in the fight against crime, forensic science turns bullet trajectories, bodily fluids, and the very structure of our DNA into damning witnesses of our every act.

The official report that has shaped the international debate about NSA surveillance"e;We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking.

This book provides a critical analysis of criminological scholarship in Malaysia, presenting a focused exploration of the key qualities and limitations to studies on crime, deviance, victimization and criminal justice in this country.

A New York Times BestsellerDetroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion.

This book provides a short, comprehensive, critical analysis of trafficking in human beings.

Reflecting the recent completion of LTE's specification, the new edition of this bestseller has been fully updated to provide a complete picture of the LTE system.

Bullock and Haddow have set the standard for homeland security textbooks, and they follow up their top-selling second edition with this substantially improved third edition.

Digital Evidence and Computer Crime, Third Edition, provides the knowledge necessary to uncover and use digital evidence effectively in any kind of investigation.

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.

Young people, crime and delinquency are words that are commonly linked in public perception and young people are often blamed for social ills.

This book examines how digital communications technologies have transformed modern societies, with profound effects both for everyday life, and for everyday crimes.

This timely volume explores the "e;dark side"e; of United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping in Africa: when rather than help establish a rule of law in the host country, they become perpetrators of crime.

​Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt Unterschiede zwischen neoliberalen und wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Strategien im Umgang mit sozialer Unsicherheit auf und argumentiert, dass die Entwicklung in Deutschland nicht angemessen verstanden werden kann, wenn Ähnlichkeiten zu den USA betont, Unterschiede nivelliert werden.

This book explores cultural constructs, societal demands and political and philosophical underpinnings that position women in the world.

This book examines the use and impact of Australian Indigenous sentencing courts in response to Indigenous partner violence.

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This book highlights the developmental changes in aggression and violence during adolescence from a uniquely psychological perspective.

This book examines links between post-conflict security, peace and development in Africa, Latin America, Europe and New Zealand.

This book draws on the voices of sex workers and their clients to critically assess the criminalization of prostitution in favour of decriminalization.

Las Vegas, 1970sa golden age of Glitter Gulch corruption.

A public health approach to human trafficking requires a nuanced understanding of its root causes.

This book maps the changes in court advocacy in England and Wales over the last three centuries.

This book examines the politics of harm in the context of palm oil production in Colombia, with a primary focus on the Pacific coast region.

This book presents the first detailed inquiry into the nature of cross-border drug trafficking between Laos People's Democratic Republic and Vietnam, using an exploratory approach.

Workplace violence in all its forms is becoming more prevalent and pervasive every year.

Security Science integrates the multi-disciplined practice areas of security into a single structured body of knowledge, where each chapter takes an evidence-based approach to one of the core knowledge categories.