Crime and criminology

Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice explores the intersections of the carceral in projects of oppression, while at the same time providing intellectual, pragmatic, and undetermined paths toward abolition.

For the past few years prisons have attracted much media attention, due to substantial increases in the prison population and the deteriorating conditions in which prisoners are held.

Praise for the Fifth Edition:"e;This book provides a complete look at neonatal healthcare delivery.

This book presents a Foucauldian problematisation analysis of crime, with a particular focus on the twentieth century.

The Routledge International Handbook of Forensic Psychology in Secure Settings is the first volume to identify, discuss and analyse the most important psychological issues within prisons and secure hospitals.

Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: Mechanisms and New Methods for Analyzing Risks builds on earlier works focusing on the clinical problem of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP).

It is generally assumed that we are justified in punishing criminals because they have committed a morally wrongful act.

The Prevention of Crime provides a unique and comprehensive overview of effective crime prevention programs, strategies and policies, demonstrating how criminological theories, research, and practice are interrelated.

"e;Death Scene Investigation: Procedural Guide is the answer to a long recognized dilemma: how to have every death investigated by an experienced death investigator.

Although we live in an era in which we are surrounded by an ever-deepening fog of data, few of us truly understand how the data are created, where data are stored, or how to retrieve or destroy data-if that is indeed possible.

Business Espionage: Risk, Threats, and Countermeasures provides the best practices needed to protect a company's most sensitive information.

While public relations offers numerous assets for organization-stakeholder relationship building and for ethical corporate social responsibility and sustainability communication, it also faces challenges linked to negative perceptions of the profession which can lead to accusations of "e;greenwashing.

This book provides an account of the emergence, nature and impact of armed youth gangs in an East London Borough over the last decade.

Who are the perpetrators of modern slavery?

This book, first published in 1966, focuses on the stories of ordinary people who have stood up to tyrants around the world.

This book aims to provide a critical analysis of both political and professional developments in policy and practice relating to non-custodial penalties, taking full account of recent developments and the creation of a National Probation Service in 2002.

There are more than 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers employed within the United States, many of whom are regularly tasked with photographing crime scenes or evidence associated with criminal investigations.

How can we best help offenders desist from crime, as well as help victims heal?

Legal Analytics: The Future of Analytics in Law navigates the crisscrossing of intelligent technology and the legal field in building up a new landscape of transformation.

Crime statistics are ubiquitous in modern society - but how accurate are they?

This book considers the presence of media illiteracy in a world in which we are supposedly consumed by media, live a media life, in a media ecosystem, surrounded by mediated communication.

The NAB Engineering Handbook is the definitive resource for broadcast engineers.

Can offenders be rehabilitated?

Federal prosecutors have immense power and discretion to decide when to bring criminal charges, what plea bargains to offer, and how to implement the federal government's legal priorities in their districts.

Over the past century, the explosive growth of scientific, technical, and cultural disciplines has profoundly affected our daily lives.

Grounded in contemporary social work practice approaches such as trauma-informed practice, cultural competency, and systems theory, this book provides a model for developing, implementing, and evaluating police social work and social service collaboration within the context of contemporary policing strategies.

The unprecedented arrival of more than a million refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants - plus the political, public, and policy reactions to it - is redefining Europe.

This book uses a crime science approach to explore the ways in which child sexual abuse material (CSAM) can be tackled.

This new textbook offers a systematic introduction to a wide array of cybercrimes, exploring their diversity and the range of possible responses to them.

The credit card industry established the PCI Data Security Standards to provide a minimum standard for how vendors should protect data to ensure it is not stolen by fraudsters.

This book presents arguments and proposals for constraining criminalization, with a focus on the legal limits of the criminal law.

This book demonstrates the application of mathematics to modeling accident reconstructions involving a range of moving vehicles, including automobiles, small and large trucks, bicycles, motorcycles, all terrain vehicles, and construction equipment, such as hoists and cranes.

An authoritative and in-depth treatment of the latest research into the criminal careers of sex offenders, providing background and investigating the policies used to combat one of society s most intractable public issues.

Routledge International Handbook of Critical Gang Studies is rooted in the instability, inequality and liquidity of the post-industrial era.

The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights brings together a diverse body of work from around the globe and across a wide range of criminological topics and perspectives, united by its critical application of human rights law and principles.

Today's high recidivism rates, combined with the rising costs of jails and prisons, are increasingly seen as problems that must be addressed on both moral and financial grounds.

Crime, Justice and the Media examines and analyses the relationship between the media and crime, criminals and the criminal justice system.

Write Like a Chemist is a unique guide to chemistry-specific writing.

Chris Comerford explores cinematic digital television as an artistic classification and an academic object of study, and illuminates the slippage in definitions of previously understood media forms.

Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the world's key regions for trafficking of illegal goods.

Phil Chalmers has spent more than a decade visiting high security prisons to interview young offenders, his mission is to attempt to answer the questions we all are asking: Why do the crimes continue to happen?

This book highlights how, and why, torture is such a compelling tool for states and other powerful actors.

The new research presented in this volume suggests that general perceptions (cultural, psychological, geographical), allied to the customs and values of journalism, and underpinned by the uses of technology, significantly shape international news.

Western movies are full of images of swaggering outlaws brought to justice by valiant lawmen shooting them down in daring gunfights before riding off into the sunset.

This book addresses and analyses the rape sentencing regime in India.

This book uses a controversial criminal immigration court procedure along the Mexico-U.

Genocide and Victimology examines genocide in its diverse features, from different yet connected perspectives, to offer an interdisciplinary, victimological imagination of genocide.

This book is concerned with the ways in which the problem of security is thought about and promoted by a range of actors and agencies in the public, private and nongovernmental sectors.

This book presents an overview of the problem of urban violence in Caracas, and specifically in its barrios.

In recent years, the use of illegal substances has increased, particularly 'designer' drugs which have rapidly become part of youth culture.