Crime and criminology

Violence against Women in Pornography illuminates the ways in which adult pornography hurts many women, both on and off screen.

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This book shows how Rwanda''s mass courts for genocide crimes helped ensure political stability and authoritarian control for Rwandan elites.

This fully updated second edition of the popular handbook provides an exploration of thinking on media ethics, bringing together the intellectual history of global mass media ethics over the past 40 years, summarising existing research and setting future agenda grounded in philosophy and social science.

The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis.

This book bridges a gap between discussions about truth, human understanding, and epistemology in philosophical circles, and debates about objectivity, bias, and truth in journalism.

Offering a lively, international, and interdisciplinary introduction to research on arts programmes in prisons, Arts in Criminal Justice and Corrections is the first volume to bring together leading figures from the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Belgium to explore key methodological approaches and issues through the lens of the researchers themselves.

Television in the Nursing Home: A Case Study of the Media Consumption Routines and Strategies of Nursing Home Residents is a three-stage ethnographic study of media use by the elderly in long-term care facilities.

The explosion of print culture that occurred in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century activated the widespread use of print media to promote social and political activism.

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Accountability of Policing provides a contemporary and wide-ranging examination of the accountability and governance of 'police' and 'policing'.

This book critiques the contemporary recourse to transparency in law and policy.

The demand for medicinal plants is increasing, and this leads to unscrupulous collection from the wild and adulteration of supplies.

Originally published in 1991.

The NATO Advanced Study Institute on the Prevention of Crime and Violence Among the Mentally III was held in May 1999 in Tuscany, Italy.

The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offenders Perspectives is not just another formulaic book on forensic psychology.

Originally published in 1997.

This report synthesizes two approaches to a topical problem: the concern with social deviancy and crime which focuses on failure; and research on educational development which focuses on success.

A Brief Introduction to Corrections is a condensed version of the best-selling Introduction to Corrections by Robert D.

Across the world, most people are well aware of ordinary criminal harms to person and property.

Between 1885 and 1960, laws and policies designed to repress prostitution dramatically shaped London's commercial sex industry.

The issue of minority ethnic groups' experiences of the criminal justice process, and in particular whether they are subject to disadvantageous treatment, has received much attention in recent years following high-profile events such as the publication of the Macpherson report in 1999 and the riots involving British-born Asian youths in northern towns in 2001.

Academic Writing with Corpora offers an accessible guide to using corpora in academic writing successfully and productively.

Exploring DEI initiatives and practices at U.

A great deal has been written about the political, policy and practice changes that have shaped probation work but little has been written on the changes to occupational cultures and the ways in which probation workers themselves view their role.

This unique analysis of the rise of the juvenile justice system from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries uses one of the harshest states-California-as a case study for examining racism in the treatment of incarcerated young people of color.

As the attacks in Norway, Munich and most recently Christchurch have shown: a new threat is now shaking liberal Western societies.

High risk offenders can have a disproportionate impact on their communities because, despite all manner of sentencing options, they continue to commit a wide range of crimes, both minor and serious.

Emphasizing how modes of book production, promotion, and consumption shape ideas of literary value, Edward Mack examines the role of Japan's publishing industry in defining modern Japanese literature.

Effective Physical Security, Third Edition is a best-practices compendium that details the essential elements to physical security protection.

Leadership for Sergeants and Inspectors offers an easily accessible and practical guide to leadership in routine and complex situations across all areas of police work.

Book publishing is big business, contributing significant employment in the creative industries and adding billions to the global economy.

This book offers a post-structuralist critique of the problems associated with modernist accounts of environmental harm and regulation.

Today's digital economy is uniquely dependent on the Internet, yet few users or decision makers have more than a rudimentary understanding of the myriad of online risks that threaten us.

Tens of thousands of readers have relied on this leading text and practitioner reference--now revised and updated--to understand the issues the legal system most commonly asks mental health professionals to address.

Exploring blockchain and bitcoin, Magnuson shows how the technology rife with crime and speculation also offers innovation and hope.

Basing his argument on natural law, Graham J.

The European Union is developing instruments which allow law enforcement and judicial authorities to freeze, seize and confiscate illicit assets in a simplified way.

There has been a significant increase in the focus on sex offending in recent years in both the academic and public spheres.

This book addresses the discursive importance of the prosecution's opening statement before an international criminal tribunal.

Der Zweite Weltkrieg auf wenigen Quadratkilometern: ein besetztes niederländisches Dorf unterm BrennglasEine eindrucksvolle minutiöse Rekonstruktion eines dramatischen Vorfalls, der sich am 10.

This book is the first comparative law study of collateral consequences of criminal conviction in all federally recognized Indian tribes in the lower 48 U.

This volume is a comprehensive introduction to the analysis, binding, uptake, metabolism, kinetics, modeling, distribution, occurrence, toxicity and chelation of metals and fluoride in the body, with special reference to mineralized tissues.

Toward a Theory of True Crime Narratives vivifies how nonfiction murder stories are told, what role they play in society, and in the form of true crime why they remain enduringly popular internationally on every platform.

Print and broadcast journalism in the United States have changed in recent years as a result of millions of people using the Internet and social media for obtaining some or most of the information they desire.

Analyzing Analytics: Disrupting Journalism One Click at a Time critically examines how journalists use web analytics in their work and the implications of that use.

This book offers a commentary on the responses to white collar crime since the financial crisis.

Based on first-hand interviews with survivors, people who have committed offences, and others on the frontlines, Indictment puts the Canadian criminal justice system on trial and proposes a bold new vision of transformative justice.