Crime and criminology

This book is a practical guide for advocates interested in the representation of victims before the International Criminal Court (ICC).

This edited collection of data and perspectives takes a fresh approach to gun violence prevention by addressing the question, "e;why are we losing the war on gun violence in America?

This book aims at shifting the emphasis from a general vision of gender-based violence to a more opaque, yet equally destructive one, that related to "e;proximity violence"e;.

This book presents the formerly-unpublished manuscript by Wheeler and Cline detailing the landmark, comparative prisons study they conducted in the 1960s which examined fifteen Scandinavian prisons and nearly 2000 inmates across four Nordic countries.

This unique volume explores the relationship between music and crime in its various forms and expressions, bringing together two areas rarely discussed in the same contexts and combining them through the tools offered by cultural criminology.

This book examines the use of social network analysis (SNA) in operational environments from the perspective of those who actually apply it.

This book provides an overview of crimes involving water, including pollution, illegal dumping, and supply chain disruption from a criminological perspective.

This book reviews how new and promising evidence-based interventions are being used with those involved in the criminal justice system.

This book explores the journey of young people through a Secure Training Centre and, more generally, the criminal justice system in the UK.

This book examines the 'war on terror' and radicalization from an ontological, non-state centric perspective.

This book provides a quantitative, cross-nationally comparative, longitudinal, and multilevel study of the drivers and spoilers of national governments' anti-trafficking measures.

This book offers a theoretically-based study on crimes against protected wildlife in mainland China with first-hand empirical data collected over five years.

This book addresses the intersection of two current major concerns in Australia: law and justice responses to domestic violence - including harsher punitive measures - and the over-representation of Indigenous Australians in the criminal justice system, which are similar concerns in New Zealand, Canada and the US.

This book directly explores the question of why contemporary society is so fascinated with violence and crime.

This book presents the formerly-unpublished manuscript by Wheeler and Cline detailing the landmark, comparative prisons study they conducted in the 1960s which examined fifteen Scandinavian prisons and nearly 2000 inmates across four Nordic countries.

This book presents an overview of the problem of urban violence in Caracas, and specifically in its barrios.

This book focuses on two key aspects of hate crime in the UK since 1945: those motivated by racial and religious prejudices.

This book uses crime-science and traditional criminological approaches to explore urban crime in the rapidly urbanising country Nigeria, as a case study for urban crime in developing nations.

This book explores the extent to which the International Criminal Court (ICC) has influenced peace processes in Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya and Uganda.

This book presents a study of street children's involvement as workers in Bangladeshi organised crime groups based on a three-year ethnographic study in Dhaka.

This book explores the journey of young people through a Secure Training Centre and, more generally, the criminal justice system in the UK.

This book identifies and examines the novel ways in which money is laundered internationally through illegal activities on the internet, focusing on sales, payments, social media, online gaming, and tax misapplication.

This book studies and disaggregates the "e;crisis of the suburbs"e; in Paris through the stories of inhabitants in 4000sud: a French suburban neighborhood.

This insightful volume examines key research questions concerning police decision to arrest as well as police-led diversion.

This book presents the first detailed inquiry into the nature of cross-border drug trafficking between Laos People's Democratic Republic and Vietnam, using an exploratory approach.

This book offers a theoretically-based study on crimes against protected wildlife in mainland China with first-hand empirical data collected over five years.

This book examines the current debate about UK street gangs termed the 'UK Gang Thesis' debate.

This book maps the changes in court advocacy in England and Wales over the last three centuries.

This book examines links between post-conflict security, peace and development in Africa, Latin America, Europe and New Zealand.

This book charts contemporary developments in counter-extremism within the UK education sector.

This book explores the dramatic evolution of a feminist movement that mobilised to challenge a women's prison system in crisis.

Between 1975 and 1980, Peter Sutcliffe, who became known as the Yorkshire Ripper, murdered 13 women in the North of England.

This book explores the consumption of counterfeit fashion goods.

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

This book asks how we should make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts world-wide to analyse, critique and reform it, it remains an enigma.

This book reviews how new and promising evidence-based interventions are being used with those involved in the criminal justice system.

This book uses crime-science and traditional criminological approaches to explore urban crime in the rapidly urbanising country Nigeria, as a case study for urban crime in developing nations.

This book examines the 'war on terror' and radicalization from an ontological, non-state centric perspective.

This book addresses the problem of religiously based conflict and violence via six case studies.

This book directly explores the question of why contemporary society is so fascinated with violence and crime.

Getting the Runaround takes readers into the bureaucratic spaces of prisoner reentry, examining how returning citizens navigate the institutional circuitof parole offices, public assistance programs, rehabilitation facilities, shelters, and family courts.

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887.

En Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle creó uno de los personajes literarios más conocidos y más realizados en el mundo.

Il commissario De Vincenzi è un personaggio letterario creato dallo scrittore Augusto De Angelis.

This book presents an overview of the problem of urban violence in Caracas, and specifically in its barrios.

Fundamentals of Forensic DNA Typing is written with a broad viewpoint.

';Rivetingan electrifying true crime story of the Mafia-smitten eighties and nineties.

A powerfully moving book that ';could make graspable why today's prisons are contemporary slave plantations' (Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple), giving voice to the poorest among us and laying bare the cruelty of a penal system that too often defines their lives.

A fascinating guide to a career as a private investigator written by award-winning journalist Howie Kahn and based on the real-life experiences of an expert in the fieldessential reading for someone considering a path to this profession.