Crime and criminology

A RUSA Outstanding Reference Source 2025This wide-ranging resource provides an authoritative overview of the criminal justice system in America, including its history, legal and philosophical foundations, dimensions of racial and economic inequality, and insights into daily life inside America's complex court and correctional systems.

Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals explores resonances across human and nonhuman carceral geographies.

What are global crises' and how do they differ from earlier crises?

The world today is becoming more interconnected than ever before.

Brazilian authorities continuously fail to comply with international norms on minimal conditions of incarceration.

This book provides a nuanced and timely contribution to the question of vulnerability in police custody.

Investigating the wave of unionization that has seen over 60 digital and legacy media outlets unionize since 2015, this book explores how a flash of organizing by digital-first journalists has become a full-blown movement to unionize journalism, particularly in the United States.

This book brings together a collection of leading international experts to explore the lessons learnt through implementation and the future directions of crime prevention policies.

Forensic Toxicology, the latest release in the Advanced Forensic Science Series that grew out of recommendations from the 2009 NAS Report, Strengthening Forensic Science: A Path Forward will serve as a graduate level text for those studying and teaching forensic toxicology.

The coronavirus pandemic struck the world in a very distinctive way: experience from past pandemics or from more recent outbreaks could give us only a limited understanding of how the situation was likely to unfold.

Building on the success of the first edition and the growth of research in the field over the past decade, this book offers an authoritative overview of the assessment, treatment, and management of violent and sexual offenders.

This book explores the EU's approach to peacebuilding and questions the EU global role as crisis manager and capacity builder.

Now in its Third Edition, Practical Bomb Scene Investigation explores the investigative process that improvised explosive device (IED) specialists undertake at the scene of an explosion.

This book examines the nature and regulation of the informal economy by means of a collective case study in a highly regulated Western country.

Vertrauensverluste und Glaubwürdigkeitskrisen von gesellschaftlichen Institutionen sind Ausdruck der Pluralisierung von Werten und Normen und der zunehmenden Verhandelbarkeit, Labilität und Ungewissheit für allgemein und beständig genommener Verbindlichkeiten.

Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology brings the history of criminological thought alive through a collection of fascinating life stories.

Conducting rural criminological research exposes researchers to concerns such as absence or inadequate official data about crime and superficial rural-urban comparisons, rural isolation and distance from the researchers' office to the study site, and lack of services or access to justice.

Digital War Reporting examines war reporting in a digital age.

International illicit trade in human organs is on the increase, fueled by growing demand and unscrupulous traffickers.

Shaping National Security: International Emergency Mechanisms and Disaster Risk Reduction presents international emergency mechanisms relative to disaster risk reduction (DRR).

Violence is widely associated with illegal drug markets, and is one of the features that can differentiate illegal capitalism from legitimate business.

Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes.

Maritime Piracy is now a pressing global issue, and this work seeks to provide a concise and informative introduction to the area.

Indigenous communities are typically those that challenge the laws of the nation states of which they have become-often very reluctantly-a part.

Why do certain people commit acts of crime?

While some books present ';ideal' ethnographic field methods, Inside Ethnography shares the realities of fieldwork in action.

This book provides a comprehensive account of community newspapers in India discussing their reach, practices, management and influence on communities.

The Social Exclusion of Incarcerated Women with Cognitive Disabilities explores the lived experience of cognitively disabled women incarcerated in Australia.

Die kriminaltechnischen Untersuchungsmethoden wurden in den letzten Jahren zunehmend verfeinert.

In the early 1980s, the question of how far the police should be accountable for their actions had become extremely vexed.

Increasingly, employees of regulatory bodies, law enforcement agencies and others who are not trained forensic accountants or experienced investigators find themselves responsible for conducting what amount to financial investigations.

Winner of the 2019 Robert Picard Book AwardThe Handbook of Media Management and Economics has become a required reference for students, professors, policy makers and industry practitioners.

This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of crime, safety and security.

This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and invites readers to push boundaries in their exploration of this important subdiscipline.

First published in 1978, Crime and Penal Policy is primarily addressed to non-professional people interested in criminal law and the penal system, such as magistrates, prison visitors, and anyone accused or convicted of criminal offences.

This book explores victims' views of plea negotiations and the level of input that they desire.

The present generation lives in a time of transition.

Human trafficking is a multi-faceted crime.

Remember: Do it right the first time.

This work is an in-depth, on-the-ground examination of how prisons impact rural communities, including a revealing study of two rural communities that have chosen prisons as an economic development strategy.

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Criminological research has largely neglected the possibility that positive peer influence is a potentially powerful source of social control.

Policing as a global form is often fraught with excessive violence, corruption, and even criminalization.

This Element compares the criminal offending trajectories of two Australian birth cohorts born ten years apart in 1984 and 1994.

This brief maps the available data augmented by expert interviews on the impact of the Covid-19 measures on DV in eight European Member States during the first lock-down.

At the turn of the nineteenth century, writers arguing for the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of those in bondage used the language of sentiment and the political ideals of the Enlightenment to make their case.

The epidemic of scandals unleashed by the Savile Scandal highlights the precarious status of relations of trust.