Crime and criminology

From CRC Press's unrivaled pool of author experts comes the ultimate reader on terrorism.

This book offers a historical presentation of how international criminal law has evolved from a national setting to embodying a truly international outlook.

Based on ethnographic data, this revealing study presents a humane and realistic account of Romanian economic migrants and their life in the UK, providing a more balanced picture of the way new immigrant groups are depicted and popularly perceived.

The new 2022 edition of the most widely taught deviance text brings us into a changing political era.

';When I testify in court, I am often asked: ';What is the damage of long-term solitary confinement?

This book brings together essays by experts to illustrate the nature of negative creativity.

Building a simple but powerful recommendation system is much easier than you think.

Prescription drugs are a basic and invaluable part of society today, but there is debate surrounding the methods of testing new drugs, the possible misuse of prescription drugs, and the economics of drug production and use.

This book brings the knowledge gained from the Teen And Police Service Academy (TAPS), which has been implemented internationally to create partnerships with at-risk teens and police, proactively addressing some of the most pressing conditions in their communities.

In the child welfare system some youth do well in their lives, but far too many do not experience positive outcomes by the time they are leaving government services.

This book examines the myriad ways in which war is culturally reassembled, appropriated, and commodified as it manifests itself in our culture and invades our public imagination and becomes an indelible part of our landscape through fashion, movies, graphic novels, television etc.

This book reflects on the institutionalisation of restorative justice over the last 20 years and offers a critical analysis of the qualitative consequences generated by such a process on the normative structure of restorative justice, and on its understanding and uses in practice.

Opportunity theories of crime seek to explain the occurrence of crime rather than simply the existence of criminal dispositions.

This book examines the evolution and current application of the political offence exception clause to extradition in Europe.

The second edition of this encyclopedia continues to break new ground as an important resource for the study of adolescence.

Offenders, Deviants or Patients?

This comprehensive text explores the relationship between identity, subjectivity and digital communication, providing a strong starting point for understanding how fast-changing communication technologies, platforms, applications and practices have an impact on how we perceive ourselves, others, relationships and bodies.

This book grapples with multispecies violent exploitations embedded in corridors of power within the animal-industrial complex (A-IC).

This innovative work builds on Huff and Killias' earlier publication (2008), but is broader and more thoroughly comparative in a number of important ways: (1) while focusing heavily on wrongful convictions, it places the subject of wrongful convictions in the broader contextual framework of miscarriages of justice and provides discussions of different types of miscarriages of justice that have not previously received much scholarly attention by criminologists; (2) it addresses, in much greater detail, the questions of how, and how often, wrongful convictions occur; (3) it provides more in-depth consideration of the role of forensic science in helping produce wrongful convictions and in helping free those who have been wrongfully convicted; (4) it offers new insights into the origins and current progress of the innocence movement, as well as the challenges that await the exonerated when they return to "e;free"e; society; (5) it assesses the impact of the use of alternatives to trials (especially plea bargains in the U.

The proliferation of information systems throughout the criminal justice system has prompted many universities supporting criminal justice programs to add criminal justice information systems technology to their curriculums.

Whilst they retain a recognisable common core, probation systems round the world are enormously varied, and many are in a state of rapid change.

Frontiers in Developmental and Life-Course Criminology advances the field of developmental and life-course criminology (DLC) by highlighting some recent methodological innovations, and exploring the ways in which DLC criminologists are helping to bridge the gap between science and service by their engagement with policymakers and government and non-government agencies.

Criminal Evidence is a respected and trusted introduction to the rules of criminal evidence for criminal justice students and professionals.

The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Third Edition, assists judges in managing cases involving complex scientific and technical evidence by describing the basic tenets of key scientific fields from which legal evidence is typically derived and by providing examples of cases in which that evidence has been used.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to criminological theory for students taking courses in criminology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Genocide has emerged as one of the leading problems of the twentieth century.

Illicit business is big business.

This book provides a clear and accessible account and analysis of French criminal law in English, the first to have been written.

This book explores young people's perspectives on risk and harm in youth sexting, specifically privacy violations and unwanted, pressured and coerced sexting.

Referring back to the early 2000s, this book traces the development of podcasting from a "e;do-it-yourself"e; medium by amateurs into its current environment, where a wide variety of individuals, organizations, and platforms operate in an increasingly crowded and competitive market.

Wireless Information and Power Transfer offers an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the theory, models, techniques, implementation and application of wireless information and power transfer (WIPT) in energy-constrained wireless communication networks.

The Resource Guide for Food Writers represents the first comprehensive listing of resources for food writers and culinary enthusiasts.

This book proposes an explicit recognition of criminology as a moral science: a philosophically textured appreciation of the presence and role of values in people's reasoning and motivation, set within an empirically rigorous social-scientific account.

Reducing Reoffending provides a critical overview of social work and community justice in Scotland, taking full account of recent developments.

This book explores how writers from several different cultures learn to write in their academic settings, and how their writing practices interact with and contribute to their evolving identities as students and professionals in academic environments in higher education.

The Handbook on Crime is a comprehensive edited volume that contains analysis and explanation of the nature, extent, patterns and causes of over 40 different forms of crime, in each case drawing attention to key contemporary debates and social and criminal justice responses to them.

As seen in the new movie The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep, here is the captivating, inside story of the woman who piloted the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media.

This book takes readers behind the screen to uncover how digital technologies have affected the UK sex industry.

The Evolving Protection of Prisoners' Rights in Europe explores the development of the framing of penal and prison policies by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), clarifying the European expectations of national authorities, and describing the various models existing in Europe, with a view to analysing their mechanisms and highlighting those that seem the most suitable.

For over two centuries, psychopathy has stood as perhaps the most formidable risk factor for antisocial behavior, crime, and violence.

Disease and crime are increasingly conflated in the contemporary world.

A Chicago journalist reveals how pervasive police misconduct, brutality, and corruption are changing the perspective of the criminal justice system and eroding the morals of the American people.

This insightful book traces the development of journalism and celebrity and their relationship to and influence on political and social spheres from the beginnings of capitalist democracy in the 18th century to the present day.

This book is the first collection to bring together scholars and activists working to end criminal and immigration detention.

The period 1829-1856 witnessed the introduction of the 'New Police' to Great Britain and Ireland.

Despite ethnography's long and distinguished history in the social sciences, its use in criminology is still relatively rare.