Crime and criminology

This Element aims to better understand school violence.

Managing Criminal Justice Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition, covers the formal and informal nature of the organizations involved in criminal justice.

Deterrence is a theory which claims that punishment is justified through preventing future crimes, and is one of the oldest and most powerful theories about punishment.

This book identifies risk and protective factors influencing routes into, through and out of sexual exploitation and sex work.

Effective Surveillance for Homeland Security: Balancing Technology and Social Issues provides a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art methods and tools for the surveillance and protection of citizens and critical infrastructures against natural and deliberate threats.

This book explores how power is negotiated in women's prisons.

This third edition of Forensic Psychology: The Basics continues to provide an accessible overview of the core topics and theories in this fascinating discipline.

Often seen as the host nation's largest ever logistical undertaking, accommodating the Olympics and its attendant security infrastructure brings seismic changes to both the physical and social geography of its destination.

In Offending and Desistance, Beth Weaver examines the role of a co-offending peer group in shaping and influencing offending and desistance, focusing on three phases of their criminal careers: onset, persistence and desistance.

When the space drama Battlestar Galactica debuted on ABC in 1978, it was expected to be the most popular new program of the year.

Think/Point/Shoot gives students a thorough overview of the role of ethics in modern media creation.

This book, the second volume in the set, offers an in-depth, global analysis of femicide and feminicide from legal, sociological, and criminological perspectives.

Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras are a prominent, if increasingly familiar, feature of urbanism.

This book is for everybody that wants to learn a little bit more about how cybersecurity is becoming more relevant in the connected world, both present and future.

This excellent book covers editing in the digital age, demonstrating the tools needed for effective text editing.

Streaming media has irreversibly revolutionised the ways in which media is transmitted and consumed.

This is the first digital forensics book that covers the complete lifecycle of digital evidence and the chain of custody.

This book examines the global, local, and specific environmental factors that facilitate illegal fishing and proposes effective ways to reduce the opportunities and incentives that threaten the existence of the world's fish.

Since the 2000 elections toppled the PRI, over 150 Mexican journalists have been murdered.

The Anglo-Irish war of 1919-1921 was an international historical landmark: the first successful revolution against British rule and the beginning of the end of the Empire.

In the early 1930s, George Raft, an actor and dancer from New York City's Hell's Kitchen, gained a name for himself playing stylish and charismatic gangsters in films like 1932's original Scarface.

The people most impacted by criminal justice policies and practices are seldom included in the decision-making processes that affect their lives.

This treatment guide allows clinicians to effectively integrate dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) as a psychological treatment with men who have committed sexually motivated offenses.

This book aims to enable non-experts in Genetics to understand the contribution of this science to resolve civil or criminal litigations, analysing evidence of human and non-human origins.

Drawing on conceptual debates in transitional justice and critical archival studies, as well as empirical cases from various countries around the world, the contributions in this book critically examine how archives are produced by and used in transitional justice processes such as tribunals, truth commissions and remembrance processes.

This book challenges the dominant narrative of young people being a uniquely violent group.

This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer.

There is great interest internationally in the development of prostitution policies in the Nordic countries after Sweden, Norway and Iceland have introduced general bans against buying sex whilst selling sex remains legal.

A step-by-step guide to crafting a compelling scholarly book proposal-and seeing your book through to successful publicationThe scholarly book proposal may be academia's most mysterious genre.

Security Law and Methods examines suggested security methods designed to diminish or negate the consequence of crime and misconduct, and is an attempt to understand both the legal exposures related to crime and the security methods designed to prevent crime.

The relationship between hacking and the law has always been complex and conflict-ridden.

Forensic document examination is a long established specialty and its practitioners have regularly been shown to have acquired skills that enable them to assist the judicial process.

By focusing on the role of community courts in Mozambique, this book offers a postcolonial perspective on legal pluralism.

This book examines the question of whether justice or security is the primary virtue of 21st-century society.

Children who come into conflict with the law are more likely to have experienced violence or adversity than their non-offending peers.

During the two decades following entry into World War II, nearly 30 million men and women served in or worked for the United States military.

Mad Frankie Fraser has become a household name, known to millions as one of London's most notorious gangsters.

That or Which, and Why is an insightful and witty guide to writing.

In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime.

This book is the first interdisciplinary study of the rule of law in an environment of complementary culture.

Marking the 50th anniversary of UN sanctions, this work examines the evolution of sanctions from a primary instrument of economic warfare to a tool of prevention and protection against global conflicts and human rights abuses.

This book addresses sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women from an international law point of view.

A missing person is an individual whose whereabouts are unknown and where there is some concern for his or her wellbeing.

The infiltration of organised crime in the legitimate economy has emerged as a transnational phenomenon.

The proliferation of data-driven criminal justice operations creates millions of criminal records each year in the United States.

Find out how the exciting new developments towards 4G mobile services and technologies will put the user at centre stage.

The Lone Brit on 13 is a gripping true story of violence, degradation and adventure penned in the confines of a grim Malaga prison cell.

This book investigates the emerging practices of science and technology librarians specific to maintaining collections, providing access to resources, and ensuring that informed decisions are made regarding limited financial resources.