Crime and criminology

This book provides an analysis of how penal discourses are used to legitimate post-Cold War military interventions through three main case studies: Kosovo, Iraq and Libya.

Triangle of Death (1977) examines the growth of the international heroin trade, and its control by the Chinese secret societies known as Triads.

Developing an innovative approach to understanding how organized crime groups diversify into the illegal trade in natural resources, this book looks at the convergence between environmental crime and other serious crimes.

This volume interrogates global perspectives and issues that constitute and characterize survivor-centred justice, exploring both conceptual and theoretical issues surrounding the definition of a 'survivor', practical considerations of what constitutes a survivor-centred approach to justice and available avenues of justice for survivors of mass atrocities.

An accessible introduction to the technical and social construct of digital identity, this book helps students understand how the data they generate through online activities and apps is used and the implications it can have.

A veteran writer presents his personal account of being in the trenches of the television industry, offering advice and tactics for aspiring scriptwriters.

This book unearths the buried legacies of modern legal thought, exposing femicide's entanglements with colonialism, Black Atlantic slavery, and their enduring afterlives, while forging countercolonial pathways to justice.

Forensic DNA Transfer provides a guide to the recognition and current understanding of DNA transfer in forensic criminal investigations.

Forensic DNA Transfer provides a guide to the recognition and current understanding of DNA transfer in forensic criminal investigations.

This book explores the connection between ownership, on one hand, and immunity from legal responsibility, on the other.

The Instant Top 5 Irish Times BestsellerFrom the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder.

This book offers reflections on emerging issues in psychiatry today, told through the lens of interviews conducted with patients of the former Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals in Italy.

This book takes an organizational sociological perspective on the systematically carried out mass murders in the context of Nazi euthanasia in Hadamar.

This book offers a completely new approach to the complex social phenomenon of the Mafia: In addition to the origins, organization and actions  of the Mafia, the author Anita Bestler examines above all the close connection between organized crime and politics.

No one wants to be robbed at gunpoint, or have his car stolen, or his house robbed.

Between 1932 and 1953, a fleet of ordinary cargo ships was pressed into extraordinary service.

Of the enormous number of books published on the Arab-Israeli conflict, most focus on its history or the political dimensions of the current peace process.

Although many people consider excessive police violence disconcerting, if, when, and how they voice their opinion or respond by taking some sort of action has generally remained empirically unknown.

Offering one of the most comprehensive assessments of alternative media to date, Beyond Mainstream Media examines the rise of alternative media over the last decade, analysing their changing content and editorial strategies, and exploring why many people go beyond the mainstream media for news and information.

This book provides the first consideration of quantum principles in legal decision making.

Literary Journalism Goes Inside Prison: Just Sentences opens up a new exploration of literary journalism - immersive, long-form journalism so beautifully written that it can stand as literature - in the first anthology to examine literary journalism and prison.

This book explores the role and development of criminological research in the public sector during the last half-century.

This book provides the first consideration of quantum principles in legal decision making.

Literary Journalism Goes Inside Prison: Just Sentences opens up a new exploration of literary journalism - immersive, long-form journalism so beautifully written that it can stand as literature - in the first anthology to examine literary journalism and prison.

An extensive survey of the pros and cons, evolution, and current issues surrounding one of the hottest topics in today's social debates.

This book develops an evolutionary theory of crime.

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Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650.

This Textbook addresses a gap in the market, as currently there are no contemporary books exploring nursing within a prison setting.

Digital surveillance is a daily and all-encompassing reality of life in China.

Offering one of the most comprehensive assessments of alternative media to date, Beyond Mainstream Media examines the rise of alternative media over the last decade, analysing their changing content and editorial strategies, and exploring why many people go beyond the mainstream media for news and information.

This comprehensive, two-volume work examines domestic abuse in the United States and worldwide, providing research, personal stories, and primary documents that reveal the extent of the problem.

This book investigates the cross-border trade in illicit drug crops in the global south.

The Path of Flames: Understanding and Responding to Fatal Wildfires is an edited volume covering the complexities of response and recovery issues relative to catastrophic wildfires.

This book develops an evolutionary theory of crime.

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In 1930 there were 288 competitive major newspaper markets in the United States.

The American press played a significant role in the transference of European civilization to America and in the shaping of American society.

Leading scholars summarize the current research on risk, protection, and resilience in the context of youth violence and its implications for practice with children and families.

Policing and War in Europe marks a new departure in Criminal Justice History.

Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650.

This Textbook addresses a gap in the market, as currently there are no contemporary books exploring nursing within a prison setting.

Rape is one of the most under-reported crimes in the U.

By any measure, workplace violence is increasing in frequency and intensity.