Crime and criminology

State Trials, Volume II (first published in 1972) contains cases concerned with witchcraft, the scandals of the prisons, and colonial administration gathered from the full edition of State Trials completed in 1826.

This authoritative, balanced, and accessible reference resource provides readers with a wide-ranging survey of capital punishment in America, including its history, its legal and cultural foundations, and racial and economic factors in its application.

A RUSA Outstanding Reference Source 2025This wide-ranging resource provides an authoritative overview of the criminal justice system in America, including its history, legal and philosophical foundations, dimensions of racial and economic inequality, and insights into daily life inside America's complex court and correctional systems.

A murder at the hands of a mother is a heartbreaking deviation and a crime against nature!

This book explores the complexities and nuances of reparations for victims and survivors of settler colonial violence.

Global criminology is an emerging field covering international and transnational crimes that have not traditionally been the focus of mainstream criminology or criminal justice.

Refundacion penitenciara de Jalisco analiza los diversos sistemas internacionales que se han aplicado, a traves del historial en el ambito penitenciario.

While increasing attention has been directed to the legal and criminological aspects of situational crime prevention, focused ethical discussion of the measures involved has been notable by its absence.

Introduction to Forensic Science: The Science of Criminalistics is a textbook that takes a unique and holistic approach to forensic science.

This guide to publishing poetry is designed for the poet on a journey from producing a pile of poems to celebrating at a book launch.

This carefully revised third edition of Criminal Psychology offers a vital, up-to-date account of the wide range of psychological contributions to the understanding of criminals and crime, its investigation, the legal processes of dealing with offenders, and helping victims.

This guide to publishing poetry is designed for the poet on a journey from producing a pile of poems to celebrating at a book launch.

This book critically analyses the conceptual understanding of financial investigation and financial intelligence among UK law enforcement authorities and their commentators.

Exploring the nuances and complexities in men's and women's accounts of how mainstream pornography is experienced in their everyday lives, this book demonstrates how pornography can be both a site for pleasure and pain across gendered lines.

This manual provides students in academic laboratory courses with hands-on experience in the major processes of forensic anthropology.

You are the first to arrive at the scene.

Emergency Action for Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents, Second Edition is intended for the first responder to the scene of the release of a chemical or biological warfare agent.

Forensic science has undergone dramatic progress in recent years, including in the areas of DNA collection and analysis and the reconstruction of crime scenes.

This book offers a new and innovative way of thinking about desistance from crime, fusing our understanding of desistance transitions, youth transitions, and the impact of significant policy change on people with convictions in a way which is yet to be seen in the available desistance literature.

El libro de Pardo está llamado a convertirse en clásico de la literatura colombiana.

Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s through the 1850s.

Originally published in 1961, when delinquency and its cure constituted one of the gravest problems facing modern society.

This book offers a relevant contribution to the studies of streaming media and transmediality with an original approach of cultural sustainability perfectly intertwined with cultural memory beyond borders.

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Barry Fisher's Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation has long been considered the "e;bible"e; of the crime-solving profession, drawing from the author's 40-year career in forensic science, including his time spent as the crime laboratory director for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Handbook of Terrorist and Insurgent Groups: A Global Survey of Threats, Tactics, and Characteristics examines the most current and significant terrorist and insurgent groups around the world.

Urbanización y Violencia en el Valle ha sido un texto de referencia obligado a partir de su publicación en 1980 para todos aquellos que han estudiado tanto los procesos de ocupación y urbanización del territorio como de los conflictos sociales en el Valle del Cauca entre 1945 y 1965.

This book critically examines the subjective value of privacy in the context of state surveillance, exploring how individuals assess costs and benefits of surveillance.

In Life beside Bars, Heath Pearson showcases dynamic, interdependent community as the best hope for undoing the systems of confinement that reproduce capital in Cumberland County, New Jersey-a place that is home to three state prisons, one federal prison, and the regional jail.

This book critically examines the subjective value of privacy in the context of state surveillance, exploring how individuals assess costs and benefits of surveillance.

When criminal activity is as straightforward as a childs game of cops and robbers, the role of the police is obvious, but today's bad guys don't always wear black.

The aim of this book is to explore the definitions and fundamentals of offensive security versus defensive security and describe the different tools and technologies for protecting against cyber threats.

In the data economy, childhood is a lucrative commodity.

In the data economy, childhood is a lucrative commodity.

The third edition of Pitch, Tweet, or Engage on the Street is an updated guide to practicing global public relations and strategic communication, preparing professionals to craft and implement international and intercultural communications campaigns.

The third edition of Pitch, Tweet, or Engage on the Street is an updated guide to practicing global public relations and strategic communication, preparing professionals to craft and implement international and intercultural communications campaigns.

Domestic violence legislation is a key response to the entrenched social problem of intimate partner violence across the globe, yet little is known about the legal players who implement these laws in terms of their perceptions of intimate partner violence and femicide.

Dans un monde en constante évolution, où la technologie redéfinit les règles du commerce, l'intelligence artificielle (IA) se révèle être un levier indispensable pour transformer les ventes.

Policing is undergoing rapid change in Africa as a result of democratization, the commercialization of security, conflicts that disrupt policing services, and peace negotiations among former adversaries.

More violence has been perpetrated in the 20th century than in the two previous centuries combined.

Advances in DNA technology have expanded such that forensic DNA profiling is now considered a routine method for identifying victims of mass fatalities.

The captivating field of modern forensic science can be challenging to understand.

This timely collection crosses international boundaries to highlight criminological issues with a rural focus.

Forensic science is often important in criminal cases, so criminal justice professionals, including lawyers and forensic scene investigators, must have a basic understanding of what is often complex science.

Today, it is estimated there are over 200,000 volunteers in police work throughout the United States.