Crime and criminology

This book presents a novel and insightful examination of gender-based violence, inviting readers to consider this topic from various perspectives.

Sexual Offences Against Children in India examines the evolution of the law pertaining to sexual violence against children, the judicial decisions since the inception of the POCSO Act till date with respect to aspects of the POCSO Act and the best practices from other developed jurisdictions for handling cases and victims of child abuse.

Once a largely dismissed problem, street harassment is now headline news and being addressed by many international agencies and governments worldwide.

What caused four recently bar mitzvahed middle-class youths to go on a crime spree of assault and murder in 1954?

Presenting sociological as well as historical perspectives, this book supplies readers with a fascinating, unprecedented look at the most successful organized-crime family they've probably never heard of.

Drawing on innovations in the business of journalism, this book offers a comprehensive guide to using the human-centred design methods of product management to serve readers and bolster digital success in news organizations.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of news media and social media in the propagation and treatment of the global #MeToo movement.

The American mafia has long held powerful sway over our collective cultural imagination.

What is the nature and impact of faith and religion in prison?

Covering figures ranging from Catherine Monvoisin to Vlad the Impaler, and describing murders committed in ancient aristocracies to those attributed to vampires, witches, and werewolves, this book documents the historic reality of serial murder.

Containing 40 visually coded maps of the fifty states, this book offers an unprecedented look at America's diverse legal landscape.

Explaining cybercrime in a highly networked world, this book provides a comprehensive yet accessible summary of the history, modern developments, and efforts to combat cybercrime in various forms at all levels of government-international, national, state, and local.

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.

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.

This book brings attention to the communicative process of editing as a dialogic experience that is attentive to the voice of the Other and underlines an ethical turn for the editing process.

This book brings attention to the communicative process of editing as a dialogic experience that is attentive to the voice of the Other and underlines an ethical turn for the editing process.

Using a unique application of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), this book provides a critical, interdisciplinary, examination of the contemporary practice of UN peacekeeping.

Hosoi, Tatsuno and Pratt examine the realities, problems and backgrounds of crimes committed by elderly people in both Japan and international perspectives.

This book highlights the intimate connection between racial/ethnic equity and school and community safety, the consequences of current inequities, and establishes the way forward in terms of future research, policy, and practice.

This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm.

Most human beings don't manage to achieve fame.

This book delves into a multitude of practices that, although deemed "e;lawful"e; by courts, are undeniably "e;awful"e; and unethical.

How do young women negotiate their identity in the shadow of a criminal past?

How do young women negotiate their identity in the shadow of a criminal past?

Most human beings don't manage to achieve fame.

This book delves into a multitude of practices that, although deemed "e;lawful"e; by courts, are undeniably "e;awful"e; and unethical.

Virtual autopsy is a burgeoning field that employs imaging methods to find the cause of death.

Institutional Racism explores the role of colonialism, truth, and knowledge in creating and maintaining institutional racism.

This book provides a comprehensive account of community newspapers in India discussing their reach, practices, management and influence on communities.

This book provides a comprehensive account of community newspapers in India discussing their reach, practices, management and influence on communities.

Descubrir los factores que llevan a una persona a convertirse en un implacable asesino nos inquieta.

The bond between parent and child is the strongest natural connection imaginable.

A key player in the worst prison riot in British history at Strangeways Prison in April 1990, Alan Lord was always in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A pesar de que durante los últimos treinta años el delito ha disminuido a nivel mundial, la criminalidad en América Latina ha alcanzado niveles sin precedentes.

Relevant for experienced and emerging social work and human service practitioners alike, this book explores the uniquely challenging, yet seemingly ubiquitous issue of youth violence.

During the years between the Civil War and World War II, police in New York City struggled with how to control a diverse metropolis.

Israeli Masculinity, Sex Work, and Consumerism: Heteronormativity and Sexual Repertoires explores the inner world of Israeli sex work consumers and their use of digital technologies on which intense feelings of social togetherness and belonging create a localized form of homosociality and brotherhood.

The social processes which underpin and shape our lives have the power to significantly transform the trajectories of people experiencing recovery from addiction and desistance from crime.

This book offers a first-hand insight into the work of policing scholars and the research that they undertake.

Now a major film streaming on NETFLIX'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough.

Collaborative Ethnographic Working in Mental Health seeks to chart a new direction for research into mental healthcare, with the aim of creating the conditions for more productive interdisciplinary dialogue.

Collaborative Ethnographic Working in Mental Health seeks to chart a new direction for research into mental healthcare, with the aim of creating the conditions for more productive interdisciplinary dialogue.

In diesem Buch erzählt ein Blaulichtreporter aus dem schönen Land Brandenburg die Geschichten von Helden und Opfern, denen er auf seinen Einsätzen begegnet ist.

Israeli Masculinity, Sex Work, and Consumerism: Heteronormativity and Sexual Repertoires explores the inner world of Israeli sex work consumers and their use of digital technologies on which intense feelings of social togetherness and belonging create a localized form of homosociality and brotherhood.

Relevant for experienced and emerging social work and human service practitioners alike, this book explores the uniquely challenging, yet seemingly ubiquitous issue of youth violence.

Das Buch verfolgt ausgehend von einem gruppensoziologischen Ansatz die Frage, warum der Nationalsozialistische Untergrund (NSU) über Jahre unentdeckt im Untergrund operieren konnte.

This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of the largely urban offence once known as vitriol throwing because the substance most commonly used was strong sulphuric acid, oil of vitriol.

This volume follows one man's revolutionary journey from deficient early education to his incarceration on North Carolina's death row, where he was given the opportunity to pursue higher education.