Crime and criminology

Seventy years ago, an Ivy League-educated lawyer, his wife from a prominent Midwestern media family, and their four children moved to a small town in Southwestern Colorado.

This new text encourages students to develop a deeper understanding of the context and the current workings of the criminal justice system.

What is the moral of the human trafficking story, and how can the narrative be shaped and evolved?

The rational choice perspective developed by Cornish and Clarke in 1986 provides criminologists with a valuable and practical framework for purposes of crime control and prevention.

This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight.

Challenging Bias in Forensic Psychological Assessment and Testing is a groundbreaking work that addresses the biases and inequalities within the field of forensic psychology.

This book will expand students' knowledge and understanding of the evolution of juvenile justice in the last 50 years.

"e;An eye-opening and riveting account of how guns make it into the black market and into the hands of criminals and drug lords.

CNBC anchor Trish Regan takes you behind the scenes of America's thriving pot industry, to show readers things only drug dealers know about this secret world.

This seminal book explores the complex relationship between popular geopolitics and nation branding among the Newly Independent States of Eurasia, and their combined role in shaping contemporary national image and statecraft within and beyond the region.

The Third Edition of Cybercrime and Society provides readers with expert analysis on the most important cybercrime issues affecting modern society.

The History of Fashion Journalism is a uniquely comprehensive study of the development of the industry from its origins to the present day, and including professionals' such as Dylan Jones's vision of the future.

This book explores an increasingly important issue for legal systems across the world.

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

Requiring no prior hacking experience, Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide supplies a complete introduction to the steps required to complete a penetration test, or ethical hack, from beginning to end.

Scholarly engagement with the magazine form has, in the last two decades, produced a substantial amount of valuable research.

This book assesses the implications of how children and young people are represented in print media in Northern Ireland - a post-conflict transitioning society.

This textbook discusses the role of community-oriented policing, including the police image, public expectations, ethics in law enforcement, community wellness, civilian review boards, and what the community can do to help decrease crime rates.

When we think of the Italian Mafia, we think of Marlon Brando, Tony Soprano, and the Corleones iconic actors and characters who give shady dealings a mythical pop presence.

The question "e;what is science"e; has been one of the most vigorously contested legal questions as to what is legally acceptable scientific foundation for the submission of expert opinion in a wide variety of cases, especially in products liability cases.

Police use of force has been a major concern for police departments and citizens in the United States since the 1840s, when police first started carrying guns.

To confront the challenges criminologists face today and to satisfactorily critique the theories on which criminology is founded, we need to learn from the past.

The internet has launched the world into an era into which enormous amounts of data aregenerated every day through technologies with both positive and negative consequences.

This book examines how journalism functions among "e;synergistic effects"e; of climate change, such as compounded impact of severe weather, social and political responses to changing global warming, and the often-unfortunate results and impacts on our environments.

This book offers a fresh perspective on the controversial topic of criminal and antisocial behavior.

The Internet is often presented as an unsafe or untrustworthy space: where children are preyed upon by paedophiles, cannibals seek out victims, offline relationships are torn apart by online affairs and where individuals are addicted to gambling, love, and cybersex.

The history of Italian cinema is mostly regarded as a history of Italian auteurs.

The roughly one thousand-member House of Lords is not only a legislative body.

This book analyzes constructions of injustice, group identification and participation in news and social media in anti-austerity protests within the European Union (EU).

Digital forensics is the science of detecting evidence from digital media like a computer, smartphone, server, or network.

This book follows a cohort of seriously delinquent girls and boys over twenty years, documenting the effects of their criminal involvement on their children.

This book presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as individuals under justice system supervision, and as professionals in the field.

Fresh research has opened up new vistas in forensic pathology that are allowing for closer national and international cooperation between pathologists and scientists in a range of medical and scientific disciplines.

This book explores young people's perspectives on risk and harm in youth sexting, specifically privacy violations and unwanted, pressured and coerced sexting.

Against the backdrop of international conventions and their implementation, Cultural Property and Contested Ownership explores how highly-valued cultural goods are traded and negotiated among diverging parties and their interests.

Although the Genocide Convention was already adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1945, it was only in the late 1990s that groups of activists emerged calling for military interventions to halt mass atrocities.

'A work of journalistic brilliance and rare humanity' GEORGE PACKER 'Truly a remarkable achievement' JON LEE ANDERSON'Ahmed writes about Mexico with uncommon authority and a broken heart' GARY SHTEYNGART'A stunning, colour-saturated portrait of the collapse of formal justice in one Mexican town' STEVE COLLFear is Just a Word begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the United States, as fifty-six-year-old Miriam Rodriguez stalks one of the men she believes was involved in the murder of her daughter Karen.

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

';Rivetingan electrifying true crime story of the Mafia-smitten eighties and nineties.

Mental Health, Crime and Justice brings together original and state of the art contributions from theoretical, empirical, and policy-related scholarship concerned with the ways people with mental health illnesses are understood, 'managed', 'controlled' and responded to.

Terrorist groups throughout the world have been studied primarily through the use of social science methods.

Parental Incarceration makes available personal stories by adults who have had the childhood experience of parental incarceration.

This book provides an ethnography of street-level policing in the United States and offers an analysis with valuable lessons for today's law enforcement officers.

In recent years, drug use, illegal migration and human trafficking have all become more common in Asia, North America and Asia: the problems of organized crime and human trafficking are no longer confined to operating at the traditional regional level.

Criminology: theory and context, third edition, expands upon the ideas presented in previous editions, while introducing new material on critical theory, feminism, masculinities, cultural criminology and postmodernism.

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.

Research Methods in Crime and Justice, 2nd Edition, is an innovative text/online hybrid for undergraduate Criminal Justice Research Methods courses.

Explores how the explosion of neuroscience-based evidence in recent years has led to a fundamental change in how forensic psychology can inform working with criminal populations.