Crime and criminology

Joint Winner of the 2023 ASSAf Humanities Book Award in the Emerging Researcher CategoryGang violence is a concern being debated by academics, politicians, and communities around the world.

Professional development is an issue of interest to all criminal justice faculty, from the newest Assistant Professor to the most senior Full Professor.

Machine Learning for Low-Latency Communications presents the principles and practice of various deep learning methodologies for mitigating three critical latency components: access latency, transmission latency, and processing latency.

This book explores the experiences of temporary migrants in the Asia-Pacific region.

Due to the extensive changes in family structure such as the increase of single parent families, a high divorce rate, and the decline of the extended family, support systems for young children are in decline.

This book examines how Chinese-language newspapers across greater China report on severe mental illness, and why they do so in the ways they do, given that reporting in local newspapers can strongly influence how Chinese readers view the illness.

Police departments across the country are busily "e;reinventing"e; themselves, adopting a new style known as "e;community policing"e;.

In the vast literature on the way democratic governments work, the role of the press is often overlooked.

This book explores how writers from several different cultures learn to write in their academic settings, and how their writing practices interact with and contribute to their evolving identities as students and professionals in academic environments in higher education.

A conceptual-based analysis of China''s legal and justice systems, and their social and political impact in the twenty-first century.

The years 1780 to 1820 have long been seen as the Golden Age of the English satirical print.

This book dives deep into the intricate realm of prison workers' self-legitimacy within Slovenia's non-Western prison system.

Do young West Africans want to go abroad at any cost because they receive too little or erroneous information?

The new edition of this comprehensive text fills an important role in teacher professional preparation by focusing on how to teach the grammar and vocabulary that are essential for all L2 writing teachers and student-writers.

People convicted of crimes are subject to a criminal sentence, but they also face a host of other restrictive legal measures: Some are denied access to jobs, housing, welfare, the vote, or other goods.

This book examines serial homicidal poisonings in the modern era, to improve our contemporary understanding of poisons, poisoners, and investigation.

Writing well is an essential skill for sociologists, but few books help students learn to write well.

Written by the nation's foremost authority on gunshot wounds and forensic techniques as they relate to firearm injuries, this third edition of a bestseller provides critical updates to information on gunshot wounds and the weapons and ammunition used to inflict them.

This book provides a detailed examination of the threats and dangers facing the West at the far end of the cybersecurity spectrum.

Care Planning in Children and Young People's Nursing addresses a selection of the most common concerns that arise when planning care for infants, children and young people within the hospital and community setting.

This book advances conceptualisations and empirical understanding of the prison cell.

Routledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL.

Forensic Engineering: The Art and Craft of a Failure Detective synthesizes the current academic knowledge, with advances in process and techniques developed in the last several years, to bring forensic materials and engineering analysis into the 21st century.

This informative and entertaining book, peppered with personal anecdotes and rich in case studies, adopts a unique approach to studying the causes of crime.

Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Warren McCleskey.

This book offers a broad overview of transition practices for incarcerated youth, shaped by local culture, politics, ideologies, and philosophies.

This book aims to both reflect and take forward current thinking on comparative and cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime.

This book examines the U.

'An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden KeefeA 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMESSHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDSAN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child.

This book offers new insights and original empirical research on private military and security companies (PMSCs), including China's negotiation approach to governance, an account of Nigeria's first engagement with regulatory cooperation under the threat of Boko Haram, and a study of PMSCs in Ebola-hit Western Africa.

The treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a complex challenge.

There is little question of the social, cultural and economic importance of video games in the world today, with gaming now rivalling the movie and music sectors as a major leisure industry and pastime.

Kriege, Pandemien und Naturkatastrophen: Die Welt befindet sich seit Jahren im permanenten Krisenmodus.

Forensic Fraud is the culmination of 12 years of research by author Brent E.

This book explores the links between education policy and occurrences of civil disorder and domestic terrorism in England and France.

This book examines the lethal risks faced by police and traffic officers in Aotearoa New Zealand.

In order to gain accreditation, every laboratory must have a superior quality assurance program.

This book explores how the Covid-19 pandemic triggered profound changes in the practice and consumption of digital journalism.

Long before he left the television news industry, Mark Kelley was concerned about the trends he saw developing in the business.

This book shares essential insights into how the social sciences and technology could foster new advances in managing the complexity inherent to the criminal and digital policing landscape.

Transatlantic policing is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy, epitomised by public responses to the murders of George Floyd and Sarah Everard during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book seeks to distinguish empirically-based knowledge from widespread misconceptions in the fields of legal and forensic psychology.

The punitive prison currently dominates the practice of Anglo-American criminal justice, stigmatising its victims as perpetual 'offenders' and failing to change a majority of them for the better.

This book aims to provide an understanding of youth offending and policy and practice responses, particularly the risk-focused approaches that have underpinned much recent academic research, youth justice policy and interventions designed to reduce and prevent problem behaviour.

This book examines the current state of both the theory and practice of prison privatization in the United States in the 21st century, providing a balanced compendium of research that allows readers to draw their own conclusions about this controversial subject.

This book argues that the expressivist justice model provides a meaningful foundation for the participation of victims in international criminal proceedings.

How ungovernable were seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Englishmen?