Crime and criminology

Much of the debate about how to prevent crime feeds off misinformation and moral panics.

This book examines the drug dealer in contemporary society from an interdisciplinary perspective and considers the increasingly blurred demarcation between illegitimate and legitimate drug markets.

This book analyses how an increasing number of new Chinese migrants have integrated into Australian society and added a new dimension to Australian domestic politics as a result of Australia's merit-based immigration system and its shift towards Asia.

This book is concerned with the media's role in everyday life, power relations and the construction of masculine identities in the context of prisons.

News and Politics critically examines television news bulletins - still the primary source of information for most people - and asks whether the wider pace and immediacy of 24-hour news culture has influenced their format and style over time.

This book analyses the usefulness of terrorist profiling utilised by law enforcement officers as a pre-emptive means to assist them in the detection, prevention and deterrence of terrorism and/or its preparatory activities.

Das vorliegende Werk ist als Kompendium zum erst kürzlich vom Landesgesetzgeber verabschiedeten Niedersächsischen Polizei- und Ordnungsbehördengesetz (NPOG) gedacht.

Challenging the Northern-centric approach that has dominated the literature on punishment-and-society, Punishment in Latin America draws on innovative theoretical perspectives to make sense of punishment, penal trends, institutions and practices in peripheral settings, taking Latin American countries as its case studies.

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This handy pocket guide is an essential field guide to crime scene photography.

Private companies are increasingly involved with the security of domestic violence victims.

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Examines the court-imposed territorial restrictions and other bail and sentencing conditions that are increasingly issued in the context of criminal proceedings.

The book discusses various necropsy procedures for wild animals both for the disease investigation and forensic usage.

Murders, cover-ups, infidelities, financial and political skulduggery: Dr.

This accessible and engaging textbook helps students to get to grips with key concepts, issues, and practices in social science research through the use of fun and informative illustrations and examples.

What remains anti-democratic in our criminal justice systems, and where does it come from?

The Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide is the definitive work on juvenile homicide.

This book discusses the phenomenon of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), in the context of the Indian law enforcement and criminal justice system.

This book explores the distortion of communication online, centered around the theory that the economic policy model of online media is primarily based on the systematic manufacture of dissent.

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.

From anti-immigration agendas that criminalise vulnerable populations, to the punishment of the poor and the governance of parenting, this timely book explores how diverse fields of social policy intersect more deeply than ever with crime control and, in so doing, deploy troubling strategies.

The book consists of the keynote papers delivered at the 2012 WG Hart Workshop on Globalisation, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice organised by the Queen Mary Criminal Justice Centre.

The Magazines Handbook is an introductory guide to all aspects of magazine journalism and publishing.

Crime Scene Management and Evidence Recovery is a must-have for first responders and crime scene investigators alike.

Since the 1960s, Charles Chadwyck-Healey has been at the forefront of library publishing and the company he founded in 1973 remains a familiar brand name to academic libraries around the world.

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published.

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.

Progressive Justice in an Age of Repression provides a much-needed engagement with questions of justice and reform within the current phase of global capitalism, one that is marked not only by significant social inequality, but also political bifurcation.

This book comprises 19 creative non-fiction pieces and essays centred around the topics of language, thought, art and existence seen through the prism of practising artist in contemporary Africa.

Amid all the laws and regulations on environmental protection and worker safety, what is the responsible business or landowner to do?

Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years.

Organised crime covers a wide range of activities, including drug trafficking, illegal trafficking of people, and fraud.

A missing person is an individual whose whereabouts are unknown and where there is some concern for his or her wellbeing.

This handbook is an international, comprehensive, reference tool in the field of trafficking in people and slavery.

Detailed tools and techniques for developing efficiency and effectiveness in forensic accounting Using Analytics to Detect Possible Fraud: Tools and Techniques is a practical overview of the first stage of forensic accounting, providing a common source of analytical techniques used for both efficiency and effectiveness in forensic accounting investigations.

This book delves into a multitude of practices that, although deemed "e;lawful"e; by courts, are undeniably "e;awful"e; and unethical.

The book's primary purpose is to understand the economic, social, and political impact of financial crimes and earning management on the Indian national economy.

This book brings together cutting-edge research across the range of meanings of the term 'cultural'.

This book brings together research that covers perspectives and case studies on terrorism, radicalisation and countering violent extremism (CVE).

In less than a decade, personal computers have become part of our daily lives.

When a corpse is found in a body of water, authorities generally presume that the manner of death was either an accident or a suicide.

Criminal Justice Theory: Explanations and Effects undertakes a systematic study of theories of the criminal justice system, which historically have received very little attention from scholars.

This book is an invaluable account of crime, law, and society in eighteenth-century England.

This Element explains publishing practices, authorship, and the cultural setting enforcing the publish or perish paradigm in the humanities.

At a time when digital technologies are impacting on the success and sustainability of traditional models of journalism, hyperlocal journalism seeks to restore journalistic integrity, build community, incite change and engage audiences.

Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain.

It was a crime that captured national attention.