Crime and criminology

In the years between 1750 and 1868, English criminal justice underwent significant changes.

This scholarly study examines the shifting perceptions of slavery in the antebellum South through news accounts of major slave rebellions.

During the Civil War, 410,000 people were held as prisoners of war on both sides.

Bitter, brownish and sticky, opium - the sap of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum - has been cultivated from the earliest of times.

This edited collection highlights international research on domestic homicides and death reviews which are a rapidly growing intervention/prevention initiative in various countries.

The main objective of this book is to propose an alternative criminal opportunity theory.

The idea that Britain, the US and other western societies are witnessing the rise of an underclass of people at the bottom of the social heap, structurally and culturally distinct from traditional patterns of `decent' working-class life, has become increasingly popular in the 1990s.

Journalism is a pool staffed by distracted lifeguards and no matter how fancy your school is, your first week in a real newsroom will feel like a shove in the small of the back into 15 feet of water.

This book, the first in a series of collected works, traces the evolution of Problem Behavior Theory from its inception to its current status as a widely used framework for understanding and addressing risky behavior in youth and young adults.

Women around the world face substantial barriers to reporting their victimization, and in some contexts, the classical criminal justice response to violence can be muted, corrupted, or even inappropriate.

Face detection and recognition are the nonintrusive biometrics of choice in many security applications.

This book provides a valuable addition to the policing literature by detailing the backgrounds and histories of seven important police leaders: Teddy Roosevelt, August Vollmer, O.

I cook here, create here,make here be as much of life as I canbecause outside of thisI'm not safe,I don't know the way.

Despite illustrious origins dating to the 1920s, qualitative crime research has long been overshadowed by quantitative inquiry.

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.

During the first six decades of the twentieth century, when the majority of present-day Kenya was under the control of the British Empire, many secular newspapers emerged as the products of tensions between Asian and European immigrants, the British administration, and the African petite bourgeoisie.

This book offers guidance for speech and language therapists and other professionals who are working in a criminal justice setting or who are interested to know more about this dynamic and rewarding client group.

In the digital age, where every post, tweet, and campaign can have far-reaching legal implications, The Rules of Public Relations provides an accessible and practical guide for students and professionals in the public relations world.

Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr.

Winner of the 2016 Book Award from the American Society of Criminology, Division of Critical Criminology.

Policing the Global South provides scholarship which further transnationalises and democratises ideas about policing practices and philosophies, highlighting renovations in approaches to policing studies, and injecting innovative perspectives into the study of policing from scholars positioned on the 'periphery'.

Here is a complete guide to the collection, classification, and comparison of friction skin prints and the determination of identity and nonidentity.

This book aims to begin an eco-centered, eco-feminist informed discussion about the ways in which our relationship to "e;nature"e; is bound up with gender, patriarchy, and violence.

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As technology continues to advance forward, it is crucial that the forensic disciplines maintain their lead over the criminal element.

EU expansion has stoked fears that criminals from the East may abuse freedom of movement to exploit the benefit systems of richer states.

La capacidad de adaptación del ser humano a las adversidades, es una de las características importantes que posee, esto es imprescindible para que quien comete delito, pueda sobreponerse mediante la readaptación y reinserción social.

The Moral Media provides readers with preliminary answers to questions about ethical thinking in a professional environment.

Access Device Fraud and Related Financial Crimes offers front-line exposure.

This volume addresses some of the central issues of journalism today -- the nature and needs of the individual versus the nature and needs of the broader society; theories of communitarianism versus Enlightenment liberalism; independence versus interdependence (vs.

The Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies comprehensively examines the topic of homicide from a diverse collection of perspectives and backgrounds.

This book examines the causes of a growing wave of digital activism across developing countries, arguing that it is driven by social change, rather than technological advancement alone.

This book teaches students how to make the difficult ethical decisions that journalists routinely face.

This book provides a focused discussion of how families are governed through technologies.

This Encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference work covering the interdisciplinary facets of security.

Domestic violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of the world.

In her compelling book, Ann C.

Police organizations across the globe are experiencing major changes.

Based on fieldwork conducted in Iran, this book discusses how it is possible for journalism to exist and function in a restrictive context.

This book unpacks the media dynamics within the socio-cultural, political, and economic context of Pakistan.

This text presents an international approach to the study of crime prevention.

This work brings together the pivotal, scholarly essays responsible for the present resurgence in rhetorical studies.

This book outlines the theory of convenience for white-collar crime to explain what motivates and enables offenders, providing a unique focus on white-collar crime in the business context.

'Robinson and Crow have achieved the seemingly impossible: a book about rehabilitation that transcends the "e;medical model"e;, that is original and contemporary yet grounded in a sophisticated history, and most of all that is fun to read.

Many forensic pathologists and death investigators would agree that infant deaths have historically been poorly investigated.

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.

Der Band versammelt zugänglich und kompakt eine Auswahl an Forschungsprojekten aus dem wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs der Universität Bielefeld, die im Kontext eines Kongressformats zusammengekommen sind.

Insekten führen ihn zum TäterAus vielen Krimis und Serien ist das bekannt: Wenn jemand stirbt, feiert die Natur ein Festbankett.

This book maps the development of modern policing-both theory and practice-from humans' first efforts at social control, through the British roots of modern policing, to the unique institution of American policing today.