Crime and criminology

In Fraud Examiners in White-Collar Crime Investigations, Petter Gottschalk examines and evaluates the investigative processes used to combat white-collar crime.

Drawing on a variety of theoretical concepts and methods, this book addresses the interface between language, politics and translation.

Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'.

How do judges sentence?

"e;This book will help you understand what is happening to your mom or dad who goes to jail.

Increasingly there is global attention on the prevalence of women's deaths resulting from intimate partner violence.

Advanced GIS and Crime Analysis explores the existing spatial variability of crime committed against women in West Bengal and steadily excavates the underlying determinants accountable for specific crimes against women.

How corrupt is the West?

Forensic Facial Identification A broad view of contemporary eyewitness research in both traditional and emerging areas.

Forensic Science Reform: Protecting the Innocent is written for the nonscientist to help make complicated scientific information clear and concise enough for attorneys and judges to master.

Police departments in many parts of the world have set up specific programs with crisis intervention teams to facilitate police contact with the mentally ill.

The book provides a pentapartite theoretical analysis of socio-economic factors as the grand basis for the evolution of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria.

This book brings together a vast range of pre-eminent experts, academics, and practitioners to interrogate the role of media in representing economic inequality.

The second edition of this vital text integrates theory, research, and application to orient readers to the latest thinking about the role of social media in crisis communication.

This book examines the recent prison buildup and its impact on American society.

This book examines the key developments in the UK magazine industry since 2014 and explains in detail how the business has innovated to survive.

Peter Linebaugh's groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism.

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.

From the New York Times’s former Op-Ed art director, the true story of the world’s first Op-Ed page, a public platform that prefigured the blogosphere.

Originally published in 1988, this title presents a longitudinal research project 'Individual Development and Adjustment' (IDA), planned and implemented at the Department of Psychology, University of Stockholm.

This volume is a collation of articles on counter forensics practices and digital investigative methods from the perspective of crime science.

Surveillance, Capital and Resistance is a major contribution to current debates on the subjective experience of surveillance.

There is no journalistic work more deserving of the designation "e;story"e; than news of crime.

The book presents hands-on protocols for conventional and advanced forensic DNA fingerprinting experiments.

This book contributes to current debates about "e;queer outsides"e; and "e;queer outsiders"e; that emerge from tensions in legal reforms aimed at improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people in the United Kingdom.

This impressive collection of original essays explores the relationship between social conflict and the environment - a topic that has received little attention within criminology.

The Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport is a comprehensive survey of the latest research into young people's involvement in sport.

Violence against Women in Pornography illuminates the ways in which adult pornography hurts many women, both on and off screen.

This book combines the approaches of history and criminology to study parricide and non-fatal violence against parents from across traditional period and geographical boundaries, encompassing research on Asia as well as Europe and North America.

This book is a concise and focused volume on the metabolism and measurable effects of drugs on the human body.

God's Assassins tells the story of state terrorism in Argentina through interviews with participants on all sides of this issue.

Building on the success, and maintaining the format, of Comparative Bone Identification: Human Subadult and Non-Human (ISBN: 9780367777883), Comparative Bone Identification: Human Subadult and Non-Human - A Field Guide presents new images of human bones representing many states of maturation from neonate to 20 years old in comparison to a variety of animal species' bones.

This Element interprets how narcotrafficking and private armies interacted with the process of configuration of the state in Colombia.

This Brief provides an in-depth look at crime and corruption in Russian Law Enforcement, in the fifteen years since the 2009 police reforms.

Security Sector Reform (SSR) remains a key feature of peacebuilding interventions and is usually undertaken by a state alongside national and international partners.

This book retraces the evolution of crimes against humanity and their application in terms of both historic legal analysis and subject-matter content.

A field guide to the trade and art of editing, this book pulls back the curtain on the day-to-day responsibilities of a literary magazine editor in their role, and to the specific skills necessary to read, mark-up and transform a piece of writing.

The incredible memoir from Lamb of God frontman, Randy Blythe.

The press called Martin's actions a "e;crime spree.

Das vorliegende Buch bietet eine systematische Einführung in das Strafanwendungsrecht, das Europäische Strafrecht nach dem Lissabon-Vertrag und das Völkerstrafrecht auf der Grundlage des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs; zahlreiche Übersichten und Prüfungsschemata veranschaulichen den Stoff.

Die Sicherheit von Kindern im Zusammenhang mit dem Schutz vor Übergriffen und Gewalt ist ein Grundbedürfnis unserer Gesellschaft.

As the nineteenth century came to an end, a number of voices within the British and American magazine industries pushed back against serialisation as the dominant publication mode, experimenting instead with less conventional magazine formats.

This new second edition of the successful 2016 Atlas of Adult Autopsy Practice is fully updated and refreshed with novel illustrations, and data refinements.

The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offenders Perspectives is not just another formulaic book on forensic psychology.

With the strengthening focus worldwide on human rights, there has been a rapid increase in recent years in the number of countries that have completely abolished the death penalty.

In most countries, problematic drug use is dealt with primarily as a criminal justice issue, rather than a health issue.

From the running of boys' clubs and catching truants to supervising troublesome kids and giving them a 'clip round the ear', the role of the police has been a recurrent theme in the debate about juvenile delinquency.

Generation Oxy is the story of a group of friendsclean cut, all-American high school kidswho stumbled into the Sunshine State's murky underworld of illegal pill mills and corrupt doctors.

Criminal proceedings in which people can lose life, liberty, or reputation tell us a great deal about the character of any society.

The story of a year-long confrontation in 1972 between the Vancouver police and the Clark Park gang, a band of unruly characters who ruled the citys east side.