Crime and criminology

Extracted from the Drug Abuse Handbook, 2nd edition, to give you just the information you need at an affordable price.

In Addicted to Incarceration, author Travis C.

This unique compilation of essays and entries provides critical insights into the Latino/a experience with the U.

The post 9/11 era has produced structured rehabilitation programmes in a wide range of countries including Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Pakistan, Malaysia, Egypt, Iraq, and Uzbekistan.

Threats in Context: Identify, Analyze, Anticipate begins with the premise that a risk assessment is relevant primarily-and hinges upon-the correct evaluation of the threat.

The United States has experienced a dramatic shift in attitudes towards cannabis use from the 1970s, when only 12% of Americans said that they thought that cannabis should be legal, to today.

Abusive Endingsoffers a thorough analysis of the social-science literature on one of the most significant threats to the health and well-being of women todayabuse at the hands of their male partners.

On any given day nearly 3000 foreign national citizens are detained under immigration powers in UK detention centres alone.

Winchell and Runyon is about the bittersweet bonding of two legendary journalists who started out as adversaries but ended up as everlasting friends.

This is an essential guide to the art of interviewing, with checklists, tips and examples from leading journalists and PR specialists, covering basic to advanced techniques.

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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.

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1969 and 2001, is comprised of original books published in conjunction with the British Sociological Association.

Child Abuse and Neglect examines the latest research on this important topic, discussing what it entails, how to recognize it, and how to report it.

The book sketches out how the criminological lens could be used in the climate change debate around possible human extinction.

This book analyses how an increasing number of new Chinese migrants have integrated into Australian society and added a new dimension to Australian domestic politics as a result of Australia's merit-based immigration system and its shift towards Asia.

A magisterial account of criminal law in early modern Russia in a wider European and Eurasian context.

The Routledge Handbook on Deviance brings together original contributions on deviance, with a focus on new, emerging, and hidden forms of deviant behavior.

This book brings together an influential group of academics and researchers to review key areas of research, theory and methodology within criminology and criminal justice, and to identify the most important new challenges facing the discipline.

Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice argues for placing trauma-informed practice and thinking at the heart of forensic services.

World football is in crisis.

This innovative introductory textbook to the growing field of cultural criminology examines the importance of understanding the cultural contexts in which crime and crime control take place.

Juvenile Justice: An Introduction, 8th edition, presents a comprehensive picture of juvenile offending, delinquency theories, and how juvenile justice actors and agencies react to delinquency.

The relationship between a parent and a child is without any doubt one of the most influential and intimate relationships over the life course of an individual.

This book critically explores how meanings of 'independence' are constructed and reconfigured by public service broadcasters in the global south, with a particular focus on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).

This second edition of An Introduction to Book History provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the development of the book and print culture.

A comprehensive source of information, this book provides guidance on how to ensure the protection of company proprietary information and the development of a corporate counterespionage program.

Alarm Systems and Theft Prevention, Second Edition, recounts the sometimes sad, sometimes humorous, and nearly always unfortunate experiences of manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and individuals who have lost valuable merchandise, money, jewelry, or securities to criminal attacks.

Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug in the world.

Sexual violence, in all its forms, is a crime for which anecdotal accounts and scholarly reports suggest victims in their great majority do not receive adequate 'justice' or redress.

Human physique and behaviour has been shaped by the pressures of natural selection.

Arts Reviewing: A Practical Guide is an accessible introduction to the world of arts criticism.

Today's home is a kind of fortress that tells us as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security.

This volume offers an analysis of crime coverage on local television, exploring the nature of local television news and the ongoing appeal of crime stories.

In every field of mass communications-advertising, entertainment studies, journalism, public relations, radio-television-film, tourism, and visual reporting-professionals understand the importance of storytelling.

Wildlife Forensics: Methods and Applications provides an accessible and practical approach to the key areas involved in this developing subject.

Crime and punishment are social and cultural manifestations; they are closely bound up with people's perceptions of morality, norms and values.

This book presents the multidisciplinary field of forensic archaeology as complementary but distinct from forensic anthropology.

From the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and the fight for ratification of the Constitution in the pages of America's newspapers through the digital era of 24/7 information technologies and social media campaigns, this book tells the story of the press as a decisive and defining part of America's elections, parties, and political life.

Traffickers presents new findings into the most mythologised and least understood area of crime and law enforcement.

Women, Violence and Social Change demonstrates how refuges and shelters stand as the core of the battered women's movement, providing a basis for pragmatic support, political action and radical renewal.

Police citizen encounters do not occur in a vacuum.

Over the last fifteen years, the analytical field of punishment and society has witnessed an increase of research developing the connection between economic processes and the evolution of penality from different standpoints, focusing particularly on the increase of rates of incarceration in relation to the transformations of neoliberal capitalism.

Microbiota are a promising and fascinating subject in biology because they integrate the microbial communities in humans, animals, plants, and the environment.

Crime statistics are ubiquitous in modern society - but how accurate are they?

What To Do When You Get Hacked: A Practitioner's Guide to Incident Response in the 21st Century teaches you everything that you need to know about preparing your company for a potential data breach.

Hijackings and bombings have plagued civil aviation since 1930 and air rage incidents are on the rise.