Crime and criminology

Interpreting Complex Forensic DNA Evidence is a handy guide to recent advances-and emerging issues-in interpreting complex DNA evidence and profiles for use in criminal investigations.

In some Latin American countries, traffickers equipped with vast resources have corrupted individuals in every aspect of public life, compromising the integrity of entire national institutions - the political system and the judiciary, the military, the police, and banking and financial systems.

Beccarria's influential Treatise On Crimes and Punishments is considered a foundation work in the modern field of criminology.

A comprehensive study of the pervasive misogyny that left women behind while British society moved toward the Age of Enlightenment.

Journalism is in transition.

This book addresses issues surrounding the evolution of the Arab Spring in North Africa.

Handbook for Death Scene Investigators provides concise information in a handy, pocket-sized (3 1/2"e; x 6"e;) format - perfect for on-the-scene reference.

This edited book provides a comprehensive survey of the modern state of the art in forensic linguistics.

Why has crime dropped while imprisonment grows?

Guido Rossi As Chairman of ISPAC, I want to thank all the contributors to this book that originates from the International Conference on Crime and Technology.

Developing a Security Training Program focuses on how to establish a comprehensive training program for a security department from the ground up.

Ranging from the middle of the eighteenth through to the end of the nineteenth century, Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 explores the developments in policing, the courts and the penal system as England became increasingly industrialised and urbanised.

A comprehensive history of policing from the eighteenth century onwards, which draws on largely unused police archives.

Das Buch bilanziert mit verfügbaren empirischen Daten und eigenen Erhebungen die Rechtsfolgen des deutschen Jugendstrafrechts.

The expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene.

Graffiti and street art images are ubiquitous, and they enjoy a very special place in collective imaginary due to their ambiguous nature.

In recent years, there has been a surge in school shootings, workplace homicides, hate violence, and deadly terrorist attacks in the United States.

Social media and digital technologies are transforming what and how we read.

Through the author's experiences, investigations and discussions with artists, art therapists and inmates from around the world, Art and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned: Re-Creating Identity comprehensively explores the efficacy, methods, and outcomes of art and art therapy within correctional settings.

This book examines the full range of counterinsurgency intelligence during the Malayan Emergency.

Originally published in 1963.

This seminal book explores the complex relationship between popular geopolitics and nation branding among the Newly Independent States of Eurasia, and their combined role in shaping contemporary national image and statecraft within and beyond the region.

An instructive and entertaining book for those public and private investigators who are potential undercover agents, this book approaches the topic from three angles: how to handle informants, how to investigate suspects, and how to be an undercover agent.

(Sub)Urban Sexscapes brings together a collection of theoretically-informed and empirically rich case studies from internationally renowned and emerging scholars highlighting the contemporary and historical geographies and regulation of the commercial sex industry.

Through an examination of Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men, this book demonstrates the ability of cinematic fictions, and other complex narrative fictions, to contribute to meeting the climate challenge by shaping the desires of audiences.

In the 21st century celebrities and celebrity culture thrives.

Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques, Sixth Edition covers a full range of fundamental topics essential to modern forensic casework and investigation.

Legal decisions continue to mystify: why was this person sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that person to just 10 years for the same crime?

Popular histories of organized crime in the United States often look to the Mafia and the sons of early twentieth-century immigrants - such as Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky - for their origins.

This book offers a scholarly introduction to comparative criminal justice.

Bringing together scholars, journalists, and researchers from 27 European countries, this book provides a comparative and longitudinal analysis of the evolution of conditions and standards relevant for sustainable, free, and plural media and journalism in Europe in the last ten years.

Originally published in 1986.

The product of an 18 month empirical study which examined the use of restorative justice for hate crime in the United Kingdom, this book draws together theory and practice in order to examine the causes and consequences of hate crime victimisation.

This book examines the roles played by narrative and culture in the construction of legal cases and their resolution.

This brief discusses the benefits and various considerations for participants and justice agencies involved in experiential programs for students.

Americas first and most notorious serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 Worlds Fair in Chicago, now updated with a new afterword discussing Holmes exhumation on American Ripper.

Over the last two decades, "e;green criminology"e; has emerged as a unique area of study, bringing together criminologists and sociologists from a wide range of research backgrounds and varying theoretical orientations.

The first historical study to offer an in-depth exploration of the complex relationship between the prison and mental breakdown.

Following on from the successful first edition (March 2012), this book gives a clear explanation of what LTE does and how it works.

Explores the fundamentals required to understand, analyze, and implement space modulation techniques (SMTs) in coherent and non-coherent radio frequency environments This book focuses on the concept of space modulation techniques (SMTs), and covers those emerging high data rate wireless communication techniques.

The media informs, entertains, and connects us.

Policing and police practices have changed dramatically since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and those changes have accelerated since the summer of 2014 and the death of Michael Brown at the hands of then-police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri.

In order for forensic fibre examiners to fully utilize fibre and textile evidence during their analysis, they require not only specialised forensic knowledge but also in-depth knowledge of fibres, yarns and fabrics themselves.

Innovative Possibilities: Global Policing Research and Practice brings together observations that reflect upon the state of police (and policing) across the globe and associated forms of policing scholarship with inputs from Africa, Australia, South and Central America, China, Europe, and the USA.

Fachwissen und Berufserfahrung sind unverzichtbar, um einen Todesfall zuverlässig aufzuklären.

This book builds on Heffernan's last book Rights and Wrongs: Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice by examining the class and racial disparities at the heart of current law - disparities that, according to many, generate a system of criminal injustice.

A fresh look at the response to domestic violence in the United States today.

Most of the literature in forensic mental health assessment is organized around the particular legal issue that is the focus of a given assessment, tool, or research study.