Crime and criminology

This book presents the first academic study offering a holistic assessment of violence against women (VAW) in Scotland, both online and offline.

This book examines the key developments in the UK magazine industry since 2014 and explains in detail how the business has innovated to survive.

This edition of Forensic Engineering updates the original work with new case studies and investigative techniques.

On any given day nearly 3000 foreign national citizens are detained under immigration powers in UK detention centres alone.

Since the shutdown of our public psychiatry system, the seriously mentally ill are now mostly managed by public safety officers, school officials, emergency first responders and social workers with little experience in recognizing symptoms, triggers and issues.

This book comprehensively examines the rapidly changing tactics and technologies used to combat crime.

In its short but active history, the use of DNA typing has revolutionized criminal investigations.

Cyber security incidents are often attributed to "e;human error"e;.

With over 250,000 apps to choose from in Apple's App Store, you can make your iPhone or iPod Touch do just about anything you can imagine -- and almost certainly a few things you would never think of.

In The Social Life of Forensic Evidence, Corinna Kruse provides a major contribution to understanding forensic evidence and its role in the criminal justice system.

The death of a patient is every therapist's worst nightmare.

This bilingual volume compares the various thematical and stylistical approaches of award-winning press articles in America and Germany.

Crime reporting, in one form or another, is as old as crime itself.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Do your students understand the job of a "e;criminal profiler"e;?

Bringing together scholars from around the world to research the intersection between media and disability, this edited collection aims to offer an interdisciplinary exploration and critique of print, broadcast and online representations of physical and mental impairments.

This encyclopedia provides a real-world guide to American political journalism and news coverage in the 21st century, from the most influential media organizations and pundits to the controversies and practices shaping modern-day political journalism.

Counterterrorism: Reassessing the Policy Response promotes a more nuanced understanding of the effectiveness of current counterterrorism practices and the need for reform.

This edited collection brings together established global scholars and new thinkers to outline fresh concepts and theoretical perspectives for criminological research and analysis in the 21st century.

This collection asks questions about the received wisdom of the debate about capital punishment.

The 'serial killer' has become increasingly prevalent in popular culture since the term was coined by Robert Ressler at the FBI in the mid-1970s.

This multidisciplinary book introduces readers to original perspectives on crimmigration that foster holistic, contextual, and critical appreciation of the concept in Australia and its individual consequences and broader effects.

This book examines the meaning and significance of finality in capital cases.

After more than half a century, the Israel-Palestine conflict continues to dominate headlines.

This book is about the increasing significance of DNA profiling for crime investigation in modern society.

When someone commits a crime, what are the limits on a state's authority to define them as worthy of blame, and thus liable to punishment?

Containing 40 visually coded maps of the fifty states, this book offers an unprecedented look at America's diverse legal landscape.

In diesem Band werden die Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Studie vorgestellt, die rechtsextreme Gewalttaten aus der subjektiven Sicht der Opfer untersucht.

Chemometrics, or the application of multivariate statistics to chemical data, provides informative and statistically valid analyses within a forensic context and there has been an increase in the use of chemometrics to characterise forensic exhibits.

This book introduces a dynamic perspective to study white-collar crime.

Speaking Truths to Power: Policy Ethnography and Police Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina presents a rigorous institutional-level analysis of the effects of globalisation on local policing, drawing on data generated from two ethnographic case studies conducted in 2011 in the transitional, post-conflict society of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Analyses the politics of policing in a range of regime types across East and Southeast Asia.

Islam's Sacred Law is one of the most complex, detailed and comprehensive legal theories that Islam, as a Western religion, has produced in its capacity as a doctrine of social justice.

First published in 1989, this book focuses on the policing of male violence against women.

This extensive Handbook addresses a range of contemporary issues related to Prison Tourism across the world.

Brings together theoretical and empirical papers prepared by noted researchers and theoreticians.

This book examines Australia's and the United States' ability to prosecute their peacekeepers for sexual exploitation and abuse.

Resisting State Surveillance in the Digital Age provides an in-depth examination of the complexity and diversity of organised opposition to increasing state surveillance powers in the UK.

The first collective work devoted exclusively to the ethical and penal theoretical considerations of the use of artificial intelligence at sentencing Is it morally acceptable to use artificial intelligence (AI) in the determination of sentences on those who have broken the law?

The Use of Force in Criminal Justice addresses the how, why, and when of utilizing force against citizens in a democracy.

Circles of Support and Accountability is a voluntary initiative that assists people with convictions for sexual offences to resettle in the community.

This book addresses six areas of policing: performance management, professional and academic partnerships, preventing and fighting crime and terrorism, immigrant and multicultural populations, policing the police, and cyber-security.

This book centers the life histories of three women engaged in sex work in Kolkata, India to show how they make sense of their lived experiences and reveals deep insights into the risks women face in the current social environment of India.

Following the rise of the zemiological movement, the concept of social harm has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention.

The second volume of Select Legal Topics updates, analyses, and covers current developments in such areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, state civil procedure, civil rights matters, constitutional issues, and significant recent Supreme Court decisions.

From an experienced author in the field, this indispensable guide presents everything needed to create and maintain a successful freelancing career in the world of television and radio.

This volume makes a case for engaging critical approaches for teaching adults in prison higher education (or "e;college-in-prison"e;) programs.

News production, distribution and consumption are in rapidly changing due to the rise of new media.