From concerns about juveniles' incorrigibility at the turn of the century to school violence in the 1990s, adults have attempted to understand, control, and prevent juvenile violence.
From governments that enact population-limiting legislation or commit wholesale neonaticide, to families who purposely allow a weak, infirm, or unfavorably gendered infant to perish rather than expend limited resources, neonaticide, infanticide, and filicide, are practiced on every continent and by every level of cultural complexity.
One of the most elusive pursuits in the study of organized crime is developing a definition, description, or conceptual model that captures its complexity, diversity, and ever-changing nature.
This book offers a novel approach to studying war and peace by foregrounding motherhood in times of conflict and peace processes from a sociological perspective.
This book offers a novel approach to studying war and peace by foregrounding motherhood in times of conflict and peace processes from a sociological perspective.
Originally published in 1982, From Author to Reader, the first of its kind, is a complete review of books in modern society that draws upon the author's own and many other published sources concerning the social aspects of books.
A broad understanding of bone and tooth microstructure is necessary for constructing the biological profile of an individual or individuals within a population.
Exploring the nuances and complexities in men's and women's accounts of how mainstream pornography is experienced in their everyday lives, this book demonstrates how pornography can be both a site for pleasure and pain across gendered lines.
This book delves into the history of biometrics, the different systems that have been developed to date, problems that have arisen from these systems, the necessity of AI-based biometrics systems, different AI techniques developed to date (including machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and pattern recognition), their potential uses and applications, security and privacy issues in AI-based Biometric systems, current trends in AI-based biometrics, and presents case studies of AI-based biometrics.
In an era defined by rapid digital transformation, Agile Security in the Digital Era: Challenges and Cybersecurity Trends emerges as a pivotal resource for navigating the complex and ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape.
This book offers an autoethnographic examination of the author's last three years as a serving police officer and as Head of the Professional Standards Department, recorded in personal journals.
The art of printing in Egypt, a unique history, especially the Boulaq printing press, which many did not pay attention to due to the causal link between it and the renaissance of Egypt in the modern era.
Interpreting Music, Engaging Culture: An Introduction to Music Criticism offers a clear, hands-on guide for emerging music critics that brings together aesthetics, critical theory, and practical music criticism in an accessible format.
This book offers an autoethnographic examination of the author's last three years as a serving police officer and as Head of the Professional Standards Department, recorded in personal journals.
Originally published in 1960, when every twentieth child in this country was born illegitimate, every eighth was conceived outside marriage; every fourth mother conceived her first-born before her wedding day; and among the children below school-leaving age over half a million were illegitimate - figures that were paralleled in many countries of Europe and the Commonwealth at the time.
Thanks to writers like Mario Puzo, filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, and actors like Al Pacino and James Gandolfini, American and Sicilian Mafia characters are well-known figures in contemporary popular culture.
An introductory critical internet studies text that builds upon media literacy and digital culture theory to offer a thorough examination of the intersection of online technology and culture.
Thanks to writers like Mario Puzo, filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, and actors like Al Pacino and James Gandolfini, American and Sicilian Mafia characters are well-known figures in contemporary popular culture.
The preoccupation with the unemployment-crime link has meant that a number of other concerns about the way that unemployment affects the criminal justice system, and ways of dealing with offenders, have been largely ignored.
False Allegations: Investigative and Forensic Issues in Fraudulent Reports of Crime provides investigators and forensic examiners with a reference manual comprised of objective protocols for managing cases.
This volume centers on the relationship between media and crisis communication, the need to address which has only been heightened by the recent experience of COVID-19 and the needs for public health crisis communication.
False Allegations: Investigative and Forensic Issues in Fraudulent Reports of Crime provides investigators and forensic examiners with a reference manual comprised of objective protocols for managing cases.
Zero to Hero: Your Guide to a Career in Cybersecurity is an essential roadmap for anyone aiming to penetrate the vibrant and ever-expanding domain of cybersecurity.
This book offers reflections on emerging issues in psychiatry today, told through the lens of interviews conducted with patients of the former Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals in Italy.
This edited collection discusses the rule of law in the Amazon and the capabilities of the region's sovereign states to police their territory considering security matters.
This book brings together experts from different fields and with different jurisdictional focuses to provide fresh ideas and deep insights into crypto regulation.
