Crime and criminology

A comprehensive collection on police and policing, written by experts in political theory, sociology, criminology, economics, law, public health, and critical theory.

This Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of media geography, focusing on a range of different media viewed through the lenses of human geography and media theory.

This book analyses how the complementarity regime of the ICC's Rome Statute can be implemented in member states, specifically focusing on African states and Nigeria.

This edited collection examines time and its relationship to and impact upon media industries, studying how the media industry views time and makes business and economic decisions based on considerations of time.

This book surveys the growing field of Queer Criminology.

High levels of police corruption have been a persistent historical tendency in police services throughout the world.

Persistent international conflicts, increasing inequality in many regions or the world, and acute environmental and climate-related threats to humanity call for a better understanding of the processes, actors and tools available to face the challenges of achieving global justice.

Psychological Criminology addresses the question: what is it about individuals and their experiences that cause them to commit crime and/or to become criminal?

Over 95% of criminal convictions are by guilty plea.

It's a national epidemic and an international conspiracy.

This book discusses the relationship between juvenile disability and delinquency, including characteristics of youth with disabilities, how disability relates to delinquency, and its impact during a youth's involvement with the juvenile justice system.

This book assesses the challenges within the Nigerian educational system and provides a concrete plan to revitalize the low-performing system by strengthening high-stakes testing at all levels.

The Magazines Handbook is an introductory guide to all aspects of magazine journalism and publishing.

Examining the extraordinary influence of Darwin's theory of evolution on French thought from 1875 to 1910, Rae Beth Gordon argues for a reconsideration of modernism both in time and in place that situates its beginnings in the French cafe-concert aesthetic.

Standing at the intersection of criminology and philosophy, this book demonstrates the ways in which mythic movies and television series can provide an understanding of actual crimes and social harms.

Die Globalisierung, die engen wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen und die unmittelbare Nachbarschaft zwischen Deutschland und Polen sind mit dem steigenden Bedarf an der Übersetzung von Wirtschafts- und Rechtstexten im Sprachenpaar Deutsch-Polnisch verbunden.

Violence against women is a global problem and despite a wealth of knowledge and inspiring action around the globe, it continues unabated.

Complacency and Collusion focuses on the practice of financial and business journalism, giving compelling explanations for why big business needs the press and why the press needs big business.

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Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

This comprehensive textbook provides a thoughtful introduction to both the legal and ethical considerations relevant to students pursuing careers in communication and media.

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

The Psychology of Journalism takes a media psychological approach towards a better understanding of key aspects of news production and reception.

Crime forms only a small and often insignificant amount of the harm experienced by people.

In Gangs and Organized Crime, George W.

A peacemaking approach to criminology is a humane, nonviolent, and scientific approach to the treatment of crime and the offender.

Maritime Piracy is now a pressing global issue, and this work seeks to provide a concise and informative introduction to the area.

Autoethnography in the 21st Century offers interpretive, analytic, interactive, performative, experiential, and embodied forms of autoethnography from around the globe.

Alternate Light Source Imaging provides a brief guide to digital imaging using reflected infrared and ultraviolet radiation for crime scene photographers.

First published in 1972 Firearms Control is the result of research carried out at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology, looks at the various problems involved in firearms control.

This work explores the tension in East Asia between the trend towards a convergence of legal practices in the direction of a universal model and a reassertion of local cultural practices.

Sexual violence, in all its forms, is a crime for which anecdotal accounts and scholarly reports suggest victims in their great majority do not receive adequate 'justice' or redress.

This book brings together the findings of a multi-disciplinary and international research project on environmental crime in Europe, funded by the European Union (EU).

The International People's Tribunal addressed the many forms of violence during the period of the massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia.

Crime statistics are ubiquitous in modern society - but how accurate are they?

The Art of Investigation examines the qualities required to be a professional, thorough, and effective investigator.

War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power is a groundbreaking and provocative study of one of the most perplexing civil liberties issues in American history: What authority does or should the government have to control press coverage and commentary in wartime?

A unique contribution to the understanding of social science, showing the implications of quantum physics for the nature of human society.

Countries undergoing major social and legal transitions typically experience a light, but relatively insignificant, increase in crime.

Das vorliegende Werk ist als Kompendium zum erst kürzlich vom Landesgesetzgeber verabschiedeten Niedersächsischen Polizei- und Ordnungsbehördengesetz (NPOG) gedacht.

Law and Society offers a contemporary overview of the structure and function of legal institutions, along with a lively discussion of criminal and civil law and their impact on society.

For most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons without any formal training.

In January 2012, millions participated in the now-infamous ';Internet blackout' against theStop Online Piracy Act, protesting the power it would have given intellectual property holders over the Internet.

The Block Parent(R) Program of Canada was launched in 1968 following a tragic child abduction and homicide in Ontario.

This brief focuses on translational criminology practices as they relate to counter-terrorism and homeland security.

Fingerprint identification is the most efficient, rapid, and cost-effective forensic identification modality.

"e;An extremely valuable source of reading, information, and guidance for my policing students.

This book tracks post 9/11 developments in national security and policing intelligence and their relevance to new emerging areas of intelligence practice such as: corrections, biosecurity, private industry and regulatory environments.

SOME DISCLAIMERS It is somewhat unusual to begin a book by declaring what it is not, but the topic of police behavior is so complex that it requires the writer to state as early as possible the limits of what he has written here to describe and explain a police officer's experience.