Crime and criminology

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First published in 1987, Rape on Trial investigates the impact of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act, 1976 and considers the treatment of rape victims by the courts in United Kingdom.

This is a comparative study of prisoners' human rights in England, Wales and the Netherlands.

This book investigates how, while children used as soldiers are primarily perceived as victims of offences against international law, they also commit war atrocities.

Why is ethics important to organizations?

This book offers a sustained study of one feature of the prison officer's job: the threat and use of force, which the author calls 'doing' coercion.

This book develops an analysis of the historical, political and legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold corporations accountable for their human rights violations.

Laws are imposed on facts.

Great Trials and the Law in the Historical Imagination: A Law and Humanities Approach introduces readers to the history of law and issues in historical, legal, and artistic interpretation by examining six well-known historical trials through works of art that portray them.

Leading scholars of media and public life grapple with how to make sense of major transformations rocking media and politics.

Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the development of the science behind the psychology of false confessions Four decades ago, little was known or understood about false confessions and the reasons behind them.

The American homicide rate remains dramatically higher than that in other Western nations.

Forensic Neuropathology provides superior visual examples of the more commonly encountered conditions in forensic neuropathology and answers questions that arise regarding neuropathological findings.

President Vladimir Putin is a figure of both fear and fascination in the Western imagination.

The Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies provides a contemporary critical and scholarly overview of theorizing and research on masculinities as well as emerging ideas and areas of study that are likely to shape research and understanding of gender and men in the future.

First published in 2004.

This book examines innovation as social change in South Asia.

A timely examination of the plight of children and youths in developing nations.

This book employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas.

First Published in 1994.

Providing unique perspectives on one of the leading hotspots of kidnapping in the world, this book examines the political and socioeconomic dimensions of the causes, manifestations, and consequences of kidnapping in Nigeria, as well as some of the control measures that have been adopted at different levels of governance and their effectiveness.

InThe Chosen Ones, sociologist and feminist scholar Nikki Jones shares the compelling story of a group of Black men living in San Francisco's historically Black neighborhood, the Fillmore.

Family members provide the majority of care for individuals with disabilities in the United States.

Surveillance has a long-standing relationship with crime and its identification, prevention, detection and punishment.

This book takes an in-depth look at the phenomenon of police officer suicide.

Delivers the most comprehensive information available for APNs on dealing with child behavioral and parenting challenges Front-line nurse practitioners are increasingly required to assess, identify, manage, and refer the complex and often significant childhood behavioral challenges occurring among children and adolescents.

This innovative volume makes a key contribution to debates around the role of the university as a space of resistance by highlighting the liberatory practices undertaken to oppose dual pressures of state repression and neoliberal reform at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in Nicaragua.

Risk Assessment in Forensic Practice sets out a concise critical review of the way in which risk is assessed in current forensic practice.

Child Pornography: Law and Policy draws on interdisciplinary work in order to critically address the law relating to child pornography.

Police Community Support Officers: Cultures and Identities within Pluralised Policing presents the first in-depth ethnographic study of Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) since the creation of the role in 2002.

This book aims to bring together the pioneering research on gender based violence that has been conducted by the Centre for Gender and Violence Research at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol.

This book explicitly addresses ethical dilemmas and issues that post-secondary ESL faculty commonly encounter and examines them in the framework of social justice concerns.

The Myth of the 'Crime Decline' seeks to critically interrogate the supposed statistical decline of crime rates, thought to have occurred in a number of predominantly Western countries over the past two decades.

This volume examines the nexus between immigration and crime from all of the angles.

This book investigates the goals and policy aspects of cyber security education in the light of escalating technical, social and geopolitical challenges.

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This book explores how Circles of Support and Accountability can reduce sexual reoffending.

The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology presents a survey of research and legal opinions from international experts on the rapidly expanding scientific literature addressing the accuracy and limitations of eyewitnesses as a source of evidence for the courts.

This edited volume presents nine new state-of-the-science chapters covering topics relevant to psychology and law, from established and emerging researchers in the field.

This book, written by two leading authorities in the field, provides a systematic application of concepts of situational crime prevention to internet and e-commerce crime, exploring ways in which concepts of crime prevention developed in other contexts can be fruitfully applied in this new environment.

Viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites are known to cause the most common human disease.

What do an illegal drug importer, a stolen car exporter, a Hells Angels member, an accountant, and an airplane hijacker have in common?

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A myriad of different scenarios await those entering the field of forensic pathology, ranging from gunshot wounds to asphyxiation to explosives to death from addiction.

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When an individual is accused of a crime he is provided, at least in theory, with numerous constitutional rights throughout the legal process.

This book explores the ways in which the state and private security firms contribute to the direct and structural harm of asylum seekers through policies and practices that result in states of perpetual destitution, exclusion, and neglect.