Crime and criminology

This book is a study of the legal reckoning with the crimes of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police and its political dimensions in the Soviet Union, West and East Germany, and the United States in the context of the Cold War.

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives-historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies.

Forensic evidence is dynamic in its context and continues to be highly significant in the detection and prosecution of crime.

This volume on print and broadcast media in the 19th and 20th centuries highlights the pivotal role that the media played in the establishment and maintenance of imperial power.

Sophie Body-Gendrot How much related are present and past violence?

A fascinating study into the development of the Victorian literary profession that examines literary and visual representations of authorship.

Behavioral Analysis, the latest release in the Advanced Forensic Science series, an ongoing reference that grew out of recommendations from the 2009 NAS Report: Strengthening Forensic Science: A Path Forward serves as a graduate level text for those studying and teaching forensic psychology, and is also an excellent reference for forensic psychologists.

Crime Laboratory Management is the first book to address the unique operational, administrative, and political issues involved in managing a forensic laboratory.

Based on extensive research into weekly rural publishers and rural readers, Reviving Rural News demonstrates that a new financial approach to community journalism is urgently needed and viable.

This powerful retrospective analysis of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting aftermath considers society's response to the attack, long-term implications of the shooting, and the ways in which research and related policy must continue to move forward.

In this practical and engaging new edition, experienced reporter and teacher Sue Ellen Christian offers a fully updated and fresh take on reporting without bias, examining the way that we categorize people, filter information and default to rehearsed ways of thinking.

A sociological deconstruction of the public response to Bernie Madoff and his crimes.

How did advertising come to seem natural and ordinary to magazine readers by the end of the nineteenth century?

Labeling theory has been an extremely important and influential development in criminology, but its recent advances have been largely neglected.

Building on comparative research in the U.

Prisoners are in a grey area regarding library services.

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume of Studies in Media and Communications features social science research that examines the practices, patterns, and messages related to representations of crime in mass media around the world.

Public opinion about homosexuality varies substantially around the world.

This title was first published in 2001.

Ranging from travel to wellbeing and fashion to food, Lifestyle Journalism explores a wide variety of subjects within a growing field.

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.

This book constitutes a first-of-its-kind synthesis of the development of journalism in Brazil, considering both its mediations with national social and political life and its relationships of influence and dependence on international economic centers.

Reputation Management is an established how-to guide for students and professionals, as well as CEOs and other business leaders.

The intense interest in 'offender profiling' generated by FBI special agents, gave rise to an explosion of studies in a new area called 'investigative psychology' by its originator David Canter.

Development in Infancy reflects many new discoveries that have transformed our understanding of infants and their place in human development, with an emphasis on 21st century research.

Guard Force Management looks at the contract guard force as a business and demonstrates how current management techniques can be used to improve efficiency and increase profitability.

Tracking funding is a critical part of the fight against terrorism and as the threat has escalated, so has the development of financial intelligence units (FIUs) designed to investigate suspicious transactions.

This book contributes to current debates about "e;queer outsides"e; and "e;queer outsiders"e; that emerge from tensions in legal reforms aimed at improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people in the United Kingdom.

What do we do with our fantasies?

How is the modern world shaping young people and youth crime?

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017

Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 explores the potential for the 'micro-study' approach to the history of crime and legal history.

For more than a decade, American lawyers have bewailed the ethical crisis in their profession, wringing their hands about its bad image.

This book presents an historical and sociological account of the Italian mafia-type organisation known as the 'ndrangheta.

Children of almost any age can break the law, but at what age should children first face the possibility of criminal responsibility for their alleged crimes?

Managing Criminal Justice Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition, covers the formal and informal nature of the organizations involved in criminal justice.

This book critiques the connection between Western society and madness, scrutinizing if and how societal insanity affects the cause, construction, and consequence of madness.

We live in an age of unprecedented complexity, where technology, cognitive biases, and societal systems shape our decisions in ways we barely notice.

Political leaders and the popular press tell us that society is in the grip of a moral crisis.

Market society is producing more crime around the world.

In the early nineteenth century, the publishing house of Taylor & Hessey brought out the work of Keats, Clare, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Carlyle, Lamb, Coleridge and many more of the most important literary figures of the time, as well as the great literary journal of the period, the London Magazine.

In a world where technology is continually advancing, and problems are becoming more and more complex, established practices for decision making and problem solving are no longer effective.

This book queries the concept of rehabilitation to determine how, on a legislative and policy level, the term is defined as a goal of correctional systems.

A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies provides a swift analysis of the computerization of the newsroom, from the mid-1960s through to the early 1990s.

Based on an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Cambridge in May 2012, Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: An International Exploration brings together internationally renowned scholars from a range of disciplines including criminology, international relations, sociology and political science to examine the meaning of legitimacy and advance its theoretical understanding within the context of criminal justice.

It is London in the 1890s.

This edited book provides a toolbox for researchers and students working with sensitive images in criminological research on and offline.

This book provides a philosophical account of the normative status of killing in Buddhism.

First published in 1991, Sex Crime in the News is a unique examination of the nature of sex crime reporting in the press.