Crime and criminology

A comprehensive introduction to policing in England and Wales, providing you with an in-depth understanding of the challenges and complexities of modern policing and an increased awareness of the history and development of the profession.

Encompassing a broad definition of the topic, this Companion provides a survey of the literary magazine from its earliest days to the contemporary moment.

Selecting journals that speak for a very large number of topics addressed by the conservative press, this volume profiles selected conservative journals published since 1787.

In contrast with historical examinations centring the evolving role of the war correspondent, Conflicting Images focuses on the contribution of photographers and photojournalists, providing an evaluative appraisal of war photography in the news and its development from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century.

This Element examines pre-web literary hypertext as a watershed moment in the history of digital publishing.

Because terrorists are made, not born, it is critically important to world peace that detainees and inmates influenced by violent ideology are deradicalized and rehabilitated back into society.

In the world of law enforcement art and antiquity crime has in the past usually assumed a place of low interest and priority.

`The quite extraordinary phenomenon of mass imprisonment in the USA needs, above all, to be identified.

Grendon and the Emergence of Forensic Therapeutic Communities Described as the jewel in the crown of the prison service, HMP Grendon is a unique, prison-based Democratic Therapeutic Community (DTC).

The Multimedia Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the wide range of uses of multimedia.

Editing for Today's Newsroom provides training, support and advice for prospective news editors.

This book critically explores the world of older prisoners to provide a more nuanced understanding of imprisonment at old age.

This book outlines the ways that disabled women experience unwanted touching and intrusive questions when navigating public space.

This book explores the politics of narco-killing and public attitudes to violence and death in the Mexican Drug War.

Three decades after his death, Michel Foucault remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the last half-century.

A powerful tool in the identification of individuals, DNA typing has revolutionized criminal and paternity investigations.

The VAT Carousel Fraud has seriously undermined the financial integrity of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS).

This new textbook provides students with the basic principles and practice standards of forensic victimology--the scientific study of victims for the purposes of addressing investigative and forensic issues.

How could a writer who knew no foreign languages call himself a translator?

This book examines journalism's ability to promote and foster cohesive and collective action while critically examining its place in the intensifying battle to maintain a society's social order.

Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch not only feature the world's most powerful mobile operating system, they also usher in a new standard of human-computer interaction through gestural interfaces and multi-touch navigation.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of capital punishment in the Australian colonies for the very first time.

The book will be an open learning / distance learning text in the Analytical Techniques for the Sciences (AnTS) covering analytical techniques used in forensic science.

This book examines one of the most contested issues facing feminists, human rights activists and governments around the globe - the international sex trade.

Here is a complete guide to the collection, classification, and comparison of friction skin prints and the determination of identity and nonidentity.

This book examines the impact and implications of the relationship between risk and criminal justice in advanced liberal democracies, in the context of the 'revolt against uncertainty' which has underpinned the rise of populist politics across these societies in recent years.

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, British society gradually began to see 'adolescence' as a distinct social entity worthy of concentrated study and debate.

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship between the criminal justice system and the community in the USA.

Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of life, who, through a combination of all-too-common factors-overzealous prosecutors, inept defense lawyers, coercive interrogation tactics, eyewitness misidentification-found themselves imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.

Guided by a belief that good crisis communication theory should inform and improve practice, this book makes a wide range of theories utilized in crisis communication accessible to researchers, students, and practitioners.

Journalism Today: A Themed History provides a cultural approach to journalism's history through the exploration of overarching concepts, as opposed to a typical chronological overview.

This how-to guide covers every aspect of law enforcement training, from training academy administration, to designing curricula, to identifying and utilizing qualified instructors.

A new account of the rise, persistence, and potential fall of mass incarceration – from a criminal justice insider.

Getting the Runaround takes readers into the bureaucratic spaces of prisoner reentry, examining how returning citizens navigate the institutional circuitof parole offices, public assistance programs, rehabilitation facilities, shelters, and family courts.

This expert reference provides a broad, comprehensive review of the major domains of sexual offending.

Forensic science has become increasingly important within contemporary criminal justice, from criminal investigation through to courtroom deliberations, and an increasing number of agencies and individuals are having to engage with its contribution to contemporary justice.

Crime, Criminal Justice and Religion: A Critical Appraisal seeks to bridge a gap in the examination of crime and criminal justice by taking both a historical and a contemporary lens to explore the influence of religion.

This book illuminates the decision-making processes of the US Supreme court through an examination of several prisoners' rights cases.

This book is the first systematic investigation into the problem of timber trafficking in Vietnam, providing a detailed understanding of the typology of, victimization from, and key factors driving this crime.

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This comprehensive, four-volume reference set on the subject of criminal psychology includes contributions from top scholars and practitioners in the field, explaining new and emerging theory and research in the study of the criminal mind and criminal behavior.

Fraud remains one of the most important crimes and causes billions of pounds of losses each year, many thousands of people are employed to try to prevent it, but it has remained largely neglected in the literature.

Bringing together cutting-edge theory and research that bridges academic disciplines from criminology and criminal justice, to developmental psychology, sociology, and political science, Thinking About Victimization offers an authoritative and refreshingly accessible overview of scholarship on the nature, sources, and consequences of victimization.

The money manager and New York Times-bestselling author explainshow to protect yourself from fraud: "e;Fisher details the red flags that should alert investors.

This title was first published in 2003.

This book provides an in-depth overview of the current research on sexual grooming.