Crime and criminology

There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories.

In the flow of drugs to the United States from Latin America, women have always played key roles as bosses, business partners, money launderers, confidantes, and couriers-work rarely acknowledged.

'A career-changing book, packed with real, lived-in wisdom and advice not just about working but really living as a self-employed person.

"e;Whether you are publishing your first book for the Kindle or your tenth, How to Publish a Kindle Book With Amazon.

Revised and updated, award-winning journalist David Batstone's Not for Sale is a harrowing yet inspirational expose of the human trafficking epidemic.

When the Stuxnet computer worm damaged the Iranian nuclear program in 2010, the public got a small glimpse into modern cyber warfarewithout truly realizing the scope of this global conflict.

Copyright law, policy, and practice underwrites the publication and sale of books.

An up-to-date showcase of the innovative and inspiring work that libraries are doing across the world to interact with their users and deliver resources via mobile devices.

'I couldn't put down this thriller' - Bill GatesWinner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.

The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics.

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are a popular form of network for data transfer due to the fact that they are dynamic, require no fixed infrastructure, and are scalable.

What Journalism Could Be asks readers to reimagine the news by embracing a conceptual prism long championed by one of journalism's leading contemporary scholars.

Explores the Romantic conviction that there were ''too many'' novels and shows how this belief transformed the publication of fiction.

Reminiscing on my ten years as a police officer in the state of Missouri, I had no inkling that my steps had already been predestined.

Rats, tainted food, leaky sewage pipes: they only began to hint at the anarchy inside the Kentucky State Reformatory in La Grange.

From The Sixth Family, according to witness testimony: BROOKLYN, MAY 5, 1981 "e;We were in the closet.

In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it.

What role can the ordinary citizen perform in news reporting?

Journalism, what happened?

You can choose from thousands of apps to make your Android device do just about anything you can think of -- and probably a few things you'd never imagine.

For more than a hundred years, Glasgow has been right up there in the major league of big-city crime.

With practical tips to help with written exercises, interview technique and role plays, this book clearly explains the new nationwide PCSO assessment system.

This lively and comprehensive text combines an overview of the historical development of policing in the UK, with discussion of current debates and practice.

This book offers a fascinating and insightful overview of seven centuries of murder in Europe.

Current anxiety about the future of news makes it opportune to revisit the notion of professionalism in journalism.

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Eavesdropping on Evil details the police hunt for their two colleagues' killers and the emotion-charged courtroom drama of the two accused.

The digital age has revolutionised the look of journalism, be it online or in print.

How did anxieties about crime and deviance emerge in the modern world, first in Europe and then in America?

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The Merchants is a book that focuses on the serious global problem of the tyranny of the merchants of death.

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

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The third annual themed compendium of essays from Five Leaves.

n Many people across the world know Antonio Negri as an internationally renowned political thinker whose book, Empire, co-authored with Michael Hardt, is an international bestseller.

You can choose from thousands of apps to make your Android device do just about anything you can think of -- and probably a few things you'd never imagine.

On a cold November morning a fourteen year old paperboy was delivering his route when he saw a brightly wrapped package on the roof of a parked car.

The armed guards and Alsatians stayed put as the prison gates slammed shut.

This much-needed book is a concise and accessible account of the contribution of feminist thinking to the study of crime.

Castles of our Conscience presents a new and distinctive analysis of the role of the modern state in the shaping of policies of social control.

This book is a timely and wide-ranging account of the relationship between the development of a 'free market society' in Europe and North America and the fears and anxieties provoked by crime.

Mediated Intimacy looks at contemporary sex and relationship advice, exploring how our intimate lives are shaped through different media, from manuals and magazines to television and Twitter.