Crime and criminology

Women continue to be one of the fastest growing groups of offenders with an increasing group of women involved in the criminal justice system around the world.

Professionalization has come to the field of threat management.

In the era of information and communication, issues of misinformation and miscommunication are more pressing than ever.

Understanding Homeland Security is a unique textbook on homeland security that blends the latest research from the areas of immigration policy, counterterrorism research, and border security with practical insight from homeland security experts and leaders such as former Secretaries of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge and Janet Napolitano.

Der Band versammelt zugänglich und kompakt eine Auswahl an Forschungsprojekten aus dem wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs der Universität Bielefeld, die im Kontext eines Kongressformats zusammengekommen sind.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the ways in which the criminal justice system of England and Wales has regulated, and failed or refused to regulate, lesbianism.

One of the most challenging issues facing our current information society is the accelerating accumulation of data trails in transactional and communication systems, which may be used not only to profile the behaviour of individuals for commercial, marketing and law enforcement purposes, but also to locate and follow things and actions.

This book examines the changes taking place in literary writing and publishing in contemporary China under the influence of the emerging market economy.

What are cyber threats?

Numeracy in Children's Nursing and Healthcare is a handy, practical book which highlights the importance of numbers, numeracy and calculations in children's nursing practice, instilling nursing students and qualified nurses with confidence and competence when working with numbers and calculating drug doses.

In recent years, reality TV formats have proliferated on television.

The news media, especially television, have become a fixture on Capitol Hill in the past twenty years.

Who makes the news in a digital age?

Biosocial criminology is an interdisciplinary field that aims to explain crime and antisocial behavior by exploring both biological factors and environmental factors.

Drawing on participatory action research conducted in Sierra Leone, Kosovo and the Philippines, Human Rights in Prisons analyses encounters between rights-based non-governmental organisations and prisons.

AS FEATURED IN BBC TWO'S BILLION DOLLAR DOWNFALL: THE DEALMAKER DOCUMENTARYTwo Wall Street reporters investigate the man entrusted with millions to make profits and end poverty but now stands accused of masterminding one of the biggest, most brazen frauds in history.

Can we understand torture by focusing on the torture chamber or even on the states in which it is practiced, or do we have to consider the wider political context in which it is embedded?

This book provides an introduction to crime science, setting out its essentials.

Our knowledge of crime is based on three types of sources: the criminal justice system, victims, and offenders.

Jack London (1876-1916) is one of the most popular American authors in the world today.

This volume places the spotlight on the role different media and communications systems played in informing the public about the pandemic, shaping their views about what was happening and contributing to behavioural compliances with pandemic-related restrictions.

This book reports on research which investigates the perceptions of ethnic minorities concerning their treatment in the criminal courts.

Criminology is a contemporary, applied, and critical criminology textbook that demonstrates the interdisciplinary nature of criminology, and the links between criminological enquiry and wider social and global issues and processes.

The fourth edition of Social Media Strategy is an essential step-by-step blueprint for innovating change, supporting traditional marketing, advertising, and PR efforts, and leveraging consumer influence in the digital world.

The original essays in Crimes of Colour explore the link between “race” and “crime” in the Canadian context.

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White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime within a coherent theoretical framework.

This book is a comprehensive guide for instructors and graduate students on preparing scholarly manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals, theses, or dissertations in the humanities and social sciences.

This book discusses the framing of referendum campaigns in the news media, focusing particularly on the case of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

Long before journalist George Plimpton donned shoulder pads for Paper Lion, sportswriters were stepping onto the field, arena, track and ring.

After Broadcast News challenges the role of professional journalists as the primary source of politically relevant information.

At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so quickly and to such capacity than in the United States.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to criminological theory and examines how crime and deviance are constructed.

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.

Although the illicit arms trade has evolved over recent years, despite the end of the Cold War it appears to be as vibrant as ever.

Volume 30 of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance brings together scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds to discuss a variety of aspects and developments related to law and culture in contemporary Japan.

This book provides a detailed examination of the threats and dangers facing the West at the far end of the cybersecurity spectrum.

A case study of seventeen interviews with teens and young adults who describe themselves as readers of comics for pleasure.

Although psychologists have related, scientifically and professionally, to the law for over 50 years now, the two fields have not been systematically integrated.

A practicing engineer's inclusive review of communication systems based on shared-bus and shared-memory switch/router architectures This book delves into the inner workings of router and switch design in a comprehensive manner that is accessible to a broad audience.

What is intelligence-led policing?

Discover the nation's capital from behind the scenes.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

Semiotic Analysis and Public Policy evaluates several key areas of public policy that are dependent on narrative, naming, sign, and branding to create meaning.

"e;Neatly and succinctly takes readers through ways to understand and interpret the label of 'antisocial' behaviour in a wider context, showing how it is socially, historically and culturally produced as well as understood in professional health and policing or correctional contexts.

This groundbreaking monograph asserts the need for the establishment of an exclusionary rule of evidence in China as a means of protecting the people from police wrongdoing.

It is startling to read how few sexual offenses are reported in a year; even more shocking to see how few reports lead to an arrest.

This book provides a highly readable introduction to the phenomenon of football hooliganism, ideal for students taking courses around this subject as well as those having a professional interest in the subject, such as the police and those responsible for stadium safety and management.