Crime and criminology

Criminal psychology should be the form of psychology used in dealing with crime; not merely, the psychopathology of criminals.

Demystifying the Law: An Introduction for Professionals explains unfamiliar legal concepts in interesting contexts, thus helping you to understand and remember them.

Analyzing women labeled as terrorists in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gender and the Political examines Western cultural constructions of the female terrorist.

In the decades preceding the Civil War, the South struggled against widespread negative characterizations of its economy and society as it worked to match the North's infrastructure and level of development.

Magazine Law is a comprehensive guide to the law for magazine journalists, editors and managers.

Presents the final volume of the seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series, focusing on the twentieth century and beyond.

Presents a fascinating theory of crime as globalized social force.

Rural crime has long been overlooked in the field of crime prevention.

Drawing on feminist theory, as well as theory surrounding the correlation between poverty and suicide, this study explores the increased rate of suicide among women in western Iran.

In 2006, after a scandal that gripped the country, the British government began to transform its prison system.

Dostojewskijs in formaler Hinsicht vermutlich vollkommenstes Werk ist der künstlerische Ausdruck jener tiefen, moralische Abgründe auslotenden philosophischen Frage: Gibt es »einzigartige« Menschen, denen alles erlaubt ist?

Transitional justice mechanisms employed in post-conflict and post-authoritarian contexts have largely focused upon individual violations of a narrow set of civil and political rights, as well as the provision of legal and quasi-legal remedies, such as truth commissions, amnesties and prosecutions.

Unsettling Colonial Automobilities explores the vehicle's role in imposing colonialism on Indigenous people and proposes an Indigenous automobility that reclaims sovereignty over place and centricity.

Motivated by recent instances of vigilantism that have captured media attention, such as the murder of Ahmaud Arbery and the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, Drs.

Das deutsche Politikfeld der Inneren Sicherheit unterliegt seit den 1990er Jahren einem erhöhten Anpassungs- und Optimierungsdruck.

Originally published in 1985 Gender, Sex and the Law explores the way in which the law, at its various levels of jurisdiction, justifies its discrimination against women in terms of the physiological differences between the sexes.

Detention before trial has been one of the most neglected areas in the whole administration of criminal justice.

This book focuses on the history and development of criminological thought from the pre-Enlightenment period to the present and offers a detailed and chronological overview of competing theoretical perspectives in criminology in their social and political context.

Between Systems and Violence offers a compilation and analysis of state-level statutes targeting intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant and/or refugee (IMR) lives.

This book introduces a novel approach to analysing and mapping criminal behaviours.

This book is a lucid and practical guide to understanding the core skills and issues involved in the criminal investigation process.

This book showcases recent advances in the theoretical and empirical understanding of the economic aspects of organised crime and illegal markets.

This book employs a transitional justice lens in order to explore justice initiatives in the United States of America.

"e;Jeanne Stinchcomb's book makes an excellent contribution to the field of corrections serving as a substantial resource for those teaching corrections and as a practical inspiration for those students who will ultimately lead the profession.

This book promotes new theoretical frameworks and research questions that seek to advance knowledge of policing across internal and external organisational boundaries, specifically at the structural level of analysis.

Managing Television News provides a practical introduction to the television news producer, one of the most significant and influential roles in a newscast.

The first two editions of Forensic Pathology have been highly touted as the definitive, go-to text reference on forensic pathology and this latest edition is no exception.

Introduction to Intelligence Studies (third edition) provides an overview of the US intelligence community, to include its history, organization, and function.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Moral Panics offers a comprehensive assemblage of cutting-edge critical and theoretical perspectives on the concept of moral panic.

This book uses settler colonialism, critical race, and tribal critical race theories to examine the relationship between settler colonialism and Indigenous and Black disproportionality in the criminal justice systems of the English-speaking Western liberal democracies of the UK, USA, Canada, and Australia.

Bone Histology: A Biological Anthropological Perspective, Second Edition builds on the success of the first edition, recognizing the significant advances that have occurred in bone biology, histology, and histological techniques and methods in subsequent years.

This book follows a cohort of seriously delinquent girls and boys over twenty years, documenting the effects of their criminal involvement on their children.

Focusing on the "e;how"e; and "e;why"e; of digital reporting, this interactive textbook equips readers with all the skills they need to succeed in today's multimedia reporting landscape.

This book offers a concise and authoritative overview of the full scope of crime prevention, including foundations, theory, application, and techniques.

This book explores how neoliberal consumer capitalist ideals of meritocracy, competitive individualism, and responsibilisation have shaped trans people's subjectivity and lived experiences of harm.

Terminal Ballistics: A Text and Atlas of Gunshot Wounds begins with a presentation of basic firearms (rifle, pistol, and shotgun) and examines fundamental components of ammunition rounds.

Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality brings together international research exploring the range of gendered harms to women involved in prostitution and the consequences of growth of the sex industry for global gender relations.

This timely volume explores the "e;dark side"e; of United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping in Africa: when rather than help establish a rule of law in the host country, they become perpetrators of crime.

When a criminal act or vehicle crash occurs, most often a local law enforcement agency responds and is responsible for both investigating the scene and for documenting it.

Cyber attacks, both on national infrastructures and private companies, have ramped up exponentially in recent years.

The first of its kind in English, Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature is a selection of readings from Italian fiction and non-fiction writers on the subject of the Mafia.

This treatise is used by attorneys and judges throughout California as a comprehensive resource on evidentiary and constitutional issues.

A practical guide to what motivates international crimes and how these are structured and investigated in theory and practice.

Women, Crime, and Justice: Balancing the Scales presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of women in the criminal justice system, providing important new insight to their position as offenders, victims, and practitioners.

The debate about whether mental health law should be abolished or reformed emerged during the negotiations of the Convention on the Right of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and has raged fiercely for over a decade.

Reflecting a diversity of thought and intellectual power, this unique volume provides undergraduate students with an important historical context and demonstrates the continuity of many issues in the fields of criminology and criminal justice.

This volume offers concrete answers to the question of how we can use imagery to enrich the teaching of reading and writing.

Critical analyses of policing have accompanied accounts of the police since the early days of modern police organisations.

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

In this textbook, social media professor Jeremy Harris Lipschultz introduces students to the study of social media law and ethics, integrating legal concepts and ethical theories.