Crime and criminology

Corruption is expanding internationally and so are strategic accusations of others being corrupt.

Inequality and injustice have long been part of the structure of our society, including law, crime, and the criminal justice system.

Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books is a comprehensive resource that builds bridges between the traditional focus and methodologies of literary studies and the actualities of modern and contemporary literature, including the realities of professional writing, the conventions and practicalities of the publishing world, and its connections between literary publishing and other media.

Private Security and the Law, Fifth Edition, is a singular resource that provides the most comprehensive analysis of practices in the security industry with respect to law, regulation, licensure, and constitutional questions of case and statutory authority.

Buying and Clearing Rights is the first work to consider the difficulties of rights clearances in all forms of media.

Britain, like almost everywhere else, has a burgeoning drug problem.

The use of sports-based activity programmes as a means of tackling crime has been explored in a number of countries worldwide, particularly in relation to the prevention of re-offending in the ten to eighteen age bracket.

With today's communications industry experiencing major changes on an almost daily basis, media managers must have a clear understanding of the different delivery platforms, as well as a grasp of critical management, planning, and economic factors in order to stay current and move their organizations forward.

This collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy.

This book provides a comprehensive history of the genesis, existence, and demise of Imperial Russia's largest penal colony, made famous by Chekhov in a book written following his visit there in 1890.

In this timely and important study Martin Montgomery unpicks the inside workings of what must still be considered the dominant news medium: broadcast news.

To combat behavior they viewed as sexually promiscuous, politically undesirable, or downright criminal, social activists in Progressive-era New York employed private investigators to uncover the roots of society's problems.

Security Operations: An Introduction to Planning and Conducting Private Security Details for High-Risk Areas, Second Edition was written for one primary purpose: to keep people alive by introducing them to private security detail tactics and techniques.

For over two decades, Television has served as the foremost guide to television studies, offering readers an in-depth understanding of how television programs and commercials are made and how they function as producers of meaning.

Sometimes the best intentions can have the worst results.

Selling Rights has firmly established itself as the leading guide to all aspects of rights sales and co-publications throughout the world.

Transnational business activities are important drivers of growth for developing and the least developed countries.

Legal Nurse Consulting Principles and Practices, Fourth Edition, provides foundational knowledge on the specialty nursing practice of legal nurse consulting.

Although historically ignored, crime victims are now very firmly on the map.

Harvey Dorfman was an educator for twenty-seven years before entering the field of sport psychology.

There are millions of children experiencing parental imprisonment all over the world.

Nobody's Law shows how people - who are disappointed, disenchanted, and outraged about the justice system - gradually move away from law.

Although civilian internment has become associated with the Second World War in popular memory, it has a longer history.

This textbook offers an accessible introduction to the topic of cybersecurity ethics.

Child sexual abuse by clergy within the Roman Catholic Church has emerged as a social and political discourse over the last three decades.

The quickest and easiest way to outsmart your Android smartphone Android smartphones, like the Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel models, offer great ways to simplify and enhance your life.

This book examines internal fraud investigations in public and private organizations.

Private Security: An Introduction to Principles and Practice, Second Edition explains foundational security principles-defining terms and outlining the increasing scope of security in daily life-while reflecting current practices of private security as an industry and profession.

Contemporary society is highly media-saturated, and no sector more so than sport.

Audience and media analytics is more important now than ever, and this latest volume in the cutting-edge BEA Electronic Media Research Series collects some of the top scholars working with big data and analytics today.

This edited book brings together a range of expert voices - academics, researchers, practitioners, activists, and policy leads - who are responding to domestic and sexual violence (DASV) in various settings.

In 1964 Ben Whitaker, who later defeated a former Home Secretary to become Hampstead's first ever Labour MP and a Junior Minister, wrote The Police to try and reconcile (in his own words) 'the very different impression police officers make when, as a barrister, one is defending from when one is prosecuting in court'.

Mafia-type organizations generate several distorting effects on the economy.

The most important part of a CSI's (crime scene investigator) job is accurate documentation of properly collected evidence.

This book examines Canadian news content that references different terms related to fake news and disinformation while providing an analysis of Canadian journalists' views on how to report on fake news and its impact in today's society.

Homicide: Towards a Deeper Understanding offers an in-depth analysis into the phenomenon of homicide, examining different types of homicide and how these types have changed over time.

This book reviews the disproportionate number of African American women making up the United States' prison population, looking particularly at how the nation's prison systems are ill-equipped to meet the basic needs of its ever-growing population.

Volume 27 of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance discusses a variety of issues of significance to equity, inclusion, and diversity in criminology and criminal justice studies.

Get Your Articles Published is a practical step-by-step guide offering you the information you to learn about the market, requirements, practicalities and skills needed to write on a freelance basis for magazines, it covers all major genres from mainstream and lifestyle through to more specialised subject areas.

Covering a wide range of different online platforms, including social media sites and chatrooms, this volume is a comprehensive exploration of the current state of sociological and criminological scholarship focused on online deviance.

Thoroughly revised and updated, this third edition offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the social psychology of aggression, covering all the relevant major theories, individual differences, situational factors, and applied contexts.

Threat and Violence Interventions: The Effective Application of Influence evaluates threat and violence risk for various levels of mental health practitioners, law enforcement officers, security professionals, human resource professionals, attorneys, and academics in forensic psychology, sociology, criminology and law.

This book engages the topic of xenophobia from both psychological and socio-political approaches.

Developmental norms and expectations for young people aged 18-25 have diverged from previous generations, creating a new stage in the life course called Emerging Adulthood.

The number of women prisoners has been growing rapidly during recent years and in many places has more than doubled in the past decade, significantly outstripping increases in the number of male prisoners and with particular consequences for minority ethnic, black and aboriginal women, who constitute disproportionate levels of prison populations in many countries including Canada, the United States, the UK and Australia.

On January 7, 1973, shots were fired from Howard Johnson's Motel in New Orleans, LA.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illegal extraction of metals and minerals from the perspectives of organized crime theory, green criminology, anti-corruption studies, and victimology.