Crime and criminology

This book provides information on graduate programs in the United States and Canada to students and professionals who are interested in attending post-baccalaureate education in criminology or criminal justice.

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century.

Cases of sport-related child sexual abuse have received increasing news coverage in recent years.

RFID and Wireless Sensors using Ultra-Wideband Technology explores how RFID-based technologies are becoming the first choice to realize the last (wireless) link in the chain between each element and the Internet due to their low cost and simplicity.

This book provides an in-depth understanding of big data challenges to digital forensic investigations, also known as big digital forensic data.

This book explores the perceptions and role of juvenile justice educators.

Smartphone Video Storytelling helps readers master the techniques for making compelling short-form video content with a smartphone.

This latest volume in the Cambridge Criminal Justice Series focuses upon young adults and their treatment in the criminal justice system.

Within the expansive mediascape of the 1980s and 1990s, cyberpunk's aesthetics took firm root, relying heavily on visual motifs for its near-future splendor saturated in media technologies, both real and fictitious.

A Laboratory Manual for Forensic Anthropology approaches forensic anthropology as a modern and well-developed science, and includes consideration of forensic anthropology within the broader forensic science community, with extensive use of case studies and recent research, technology and challenges that are applied in field and lab contexts.

Each year, countless people fall victim to crimes against humanity.

Drawn from recent proceedings of the International Police Executive Symposium (IPES), this volume explores major policing initiatives and evolutions across the globe and presents practical insights on how police are retooling their profession.

This textbook provides a practical introduction to the fields of forensic phonetics and forensic linguistics.

This handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the politics of technology.

This title was first published in 2000: Few areas of criminal activity have sustained such widely held attention as serial murder.

In this book, Irving Spergel details the efforts of his Chicago youth gang project, a comprehensive, community-based model designed to reduce gang problems, including violence and illegal drug activity.

The crime drop is one of the most important puzzles in contemporary criminology: since the early-1990s many countries appear to exhibit a pronounced decline in crime rates.

Will Attwood was finishing a three-year sentence in prison when he was formally diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome for the first time.

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

Though much has been written about twins, very little research has been done into their everyday lives, both postnatal and prenatal.

The second and completely revised edition of the Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood draws on the work of leading academics from four continents in order to introduce up-to-date perspectives on a wide range of issues that affect and shape youth and young adulthood.

This book presents an approach to postmortem human identification using dental image processing based on dental features and characteristics, and provides information on various identification systems based on dental features using image processing operations.

How did the United States, a nation known for protecting the "e;right to remain silent"e; become notorious for condoning and using controversial tactics like water boarding and extraordinary rendition to extract information?

This book is a comprehensive and critical introduction to the field of gender and crime, re-thinking the key themes and debates within a human rights framework.

This book takes stock of the development of EU criminal law from the establishment of the ECSC to the first European Union criminal law directives passed after the Lisbon Treaty.

In this succinct text, Jonathan D.

Originally published in 1941 and written in an attempt to dispute the popular assumption at the time that a 'bit of discipline' is what is needed for the correction of young men who show delinquent tendencies, this book is much more than that.

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

It has been said that scammers and swindlers often display characteristics commonly attributed to good leadership.

This selection, first published in 1973, compiles a fascinating study of crowd psychology as it examines the moral epidemics and fits of madness that have bewitched the cities of Europe and their citizens from the dark ages to modern times.

This richly illustrated two-volume book offers a comprehensive and essential reference guide for veterinary pathologists and clinical veterinarians interested in performing animal necropsies for forensic casework.

The enthralling story of Henry Hill's life as a gangster and notorious participation in the Witness Protection Programme, made into the hugely acclaimed Martin Scorsese film_________________________'Absolutely engrossing' - New York Times'The best book ever written on organised crime' - Cosmopolitan'A riveting account of organised crime as a way of life .

This volume recounts notable episodes of distortion throughout American media history.

This book presents one of the world''s most descriptive accounts of the criminal careers of 411 South London boys followed to age 40.

Human trafficking has come to be seen as a growing threat, and transnational advocacy networks opposed to human trafficking have succeeded in establishing trafficking as a pressing political problem.

Written for corporation security officers, this work is designed to help them garner executive support and increased funding for their security programs.

Hundreds of Domestic Violence Death Review committees, teams, and panels are operating in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

With the televised events of 1989, territories of Eastern and Central Europe that had been marked as impenetrable and inaccessible to the Western gaze exploded into visibility.

This Brief describes a reality based approach to use-of-force training in law enforcement, an area of growing importance.

What are cyber threats?

Criminology: An Integrated Approach is the first criminology textbook to provide an integrated perspective on the developing global and historical relations that unite the studies of criminology/criminologists, criminal justice/justicians, and crime/crime control in the 21st century.

There is no doubt that globalisation has profound effects on crime, justice and our feelings of security, identity and belonging.

The Routledge Handbook of Anti-Corruption Research and Practice takes a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach to provide a comprehensive exploration of the processes, conditions, and activities that hold the potential to control corruption.

An introduction to all aspects of newspaper journalism and the journalist's world.

At the time of its collapse in 2001, Enron was one of the largest companies in the world, boasting revenue of over $100 billion.

Outlaw bikers represent a very small percentage of motorcycle riders who join motorcycle clubs, but they receive disproportionate attention due to their mystique, unconventional behavior, and violence.