Crime and criminology

This book discusses all aspects of money laundering, starting from traditional approach to financial crimes to artificial intelligence-enabled solutions.

This book brings to life the experiences of children affected by maternal imprisonment, and provides unique, in-depth analysis of judicial thinking on this issue.

This book provides an innovative and policy-oriented analysis of gender stereotypes in advertising regulation from a socio-legal perspective.

This book provides an up-to-date, accessible introduction to the relationship between families, prisons and penal policies in the United Kingdom.

Using in-depth analysis of film, TV, news and online productions, Understanding Media Production shows how media theory helps aspiring producers understand good practice in media production.

Embodying Punishment offers a theoretical and empirical exploration of women's lived experiences of imprisonment in England.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of correctional psychology, considering the history and future of the practice.

Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world.

This volume of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance addresses a variety of issues and concerns involved with the study of violent crime and homicide in the contemporary world.

Conversations about rehabilitation and how to address the drugs-crime nexus have been dominated by academics and policymakers, without due recognition of the experience and knowledge of practitioners.

When they initiated a war on drugs in 1979, Iran developed a reputation as having some of the world's harshest drug penalties and as an opponent of efforts to reform global drug policy.

How Journalism Uses History examines the various ways in which journalism uses history and historical sources in order to better understand the relationships between journalists, historians and journalism scholars.

Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book focuses on its key processes (from arrest to post-sentence) and institutions, as well as its history and some of the key challenges and critical issues facing Scottish criminal justice today.

During a routine investigation, a suspect turns hostile.

Unlike much of the existing literature on organised crime, this book is less focused on the problem per se as it is on understanding its implications.

Who has the final say on the meaning of the Constitution?

Your visual guide to unlocking the full potential of the Samsung Galaxy Teach Yourself VISUALLY Samsung Galaxy is your step-by-step, visual guide to everything your new phone has to offer.

In this fifth edition, Brian Carroll explores writing and editing for digital media with essential information about voice, style, media formats, ideation, story planning, and storytelling.

This book examines the adequacy of laws in India as a response to sexual and gender-based violence against women.

This book is about the relationship between media, communication and globalization, explored through the unique empirical study of electronic music practitioners' use of the global social media: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

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UMTS Network Planning, Optimization, and Inter-Operation with GSM is an accessible, one-stop reference to help engineers effectively reduce the time and costs involved in UMTS deployment and optimization.

In a society where sexualized media has become background noise, we are frequently discouraged from frank and open discussions about sex and offered few tools for understanding sexual behaviors and sexualities that are perceived as being out of the norm.

This title was first published in 2003.

Exploring Communication Law, Second Edition, provides an overview of the law as it pertains to print, broadcast, and online journalism, as well as non-journalistic forms of expression.

Fusing the academic with the applied, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to social media for future communications professionals.

The fifth edition of this classic text, which was the first on the subject of reputation management, gives readers the guidance and skills needed to manage brand and reputation through effective performance, behavior, identity and communication strategies.

This book is the first green criminology text to focus specifically on Latin America.

Traditionally, social theorists in the West have structured models of state social control according to the tenet that socialization is accomplished by means of external controls on behavior: undesirable actions are punished and desirable actions result either in material reward or a simple respite from the oppressive attentions of an authoritarian state.

The widespread use of the Internet as a tool for gathering and disseminating information raises serious questions for journalists--and their readers--about the process of reporting information.

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Gun Present takes us inside the everyday operations of the law at a courthouse in the Deep South.

About the SeriesThe goal of this new, unique Series is to offer readable, teachable "e;thinking frames"e; on today's social problems and social issues by leading scholars, all in short 60-page-or-shorter formats, and available for view on http://routledge.

Increasing concerns about the accountability of criminal justice professionals at all levels has placed a heightened focus on the behavior of those who work in the system.

This book is the first collection of original research to explore links between demographics and media coverage of emerging human rights issues.

This is the first biography of the legendary officer Cipriano Baca, scion of a prestigious Spanish lineage tracing their heritage to the first settlers in Nuevo Mexico.

As cultural, social, political, and historical objects, guns are rich with complex and contested significance.

This groundbreaking double-volume engages the theme of abolition feminisms, a political tradition grounded in radical anti-violence organizing, Black feminist and feminist of color rebellion, survivor knowledge production, strategies devised inside and across prison walls, and a full, fierce refusal of race-gender pathology and punitive control.

Biological and chemical weapons are a growing terrorist threat to the United States and other nations and countermeasures continue to evolve as a national and global priority issue.

This color atlas and textbook describes the initial phase of human dentition.

This book offers a comprehensive scholarly overview of Reddit, one of the most popular and least studied social platforms of the early 21st century.

The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox.

This unique collection considers the nature of writing groups inside and outside the academic environment.

If you've got your hands on this year's hottest new smartphone, you'll want the book that covers it inside and out: Palm Pre: The Missing Manual.

A stark and honest memoir of thirty-five years spent in Canada's prison system.

Nearly every country in the world has a mechanism for executive clemency, which, though residual in most legal systems, serves as a vital due process safeguard and as an outlet for leniency in punishment.

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The twentieth century was a time of rapid social change in Ireland: from colonial rule to independence, civil war and later the Troubles; from poverty to globalisation and the Celtic Tiger; and from the rise to the fall of the Catholic Church.

This book is about the human factor in cybercrime: its offenders, victims and parties involved in tackling cybercrime.