Crime and criminology

This book explores how prisoners turn themselves into active opponents of the prison regime, and thus reclaim their freedom and manhood.

This book adds to global knowledge of pathways out of crime (desistance) by exploring the desistance narratives of 15 women with histories of imprisonment in Aotearoa New Zealand (10 of whom identify as Maori, New Zealand's Indigenous population).

In September 2005 one of South Africa's most eminent mining magnates and businessmen Brett Kebble was killed on a quiet suburban street in Johannesburg.

This volume provides a unique collection of essays in honour of the work of Marcus Felson and his notable contribution to routine activity theory, environmental criminology and the discipline more broadly.

This book provides a critical analysis of the employment of intelligence-led policing (ILP) strategies.

If you're looking for a book that focuses on just the most important, most useful, and most fun stuff about your iPhone 3G or 3GS-you've found it.

Centralising the experience of victims-survivors and other grassroots actors, this book examines how transitional justice can be used in transforming the Kurdish conflict in Turkey.

In 1992 the National Research Council issued DNA Technology in Forensic Science, a book that documented the state of the art in this emerging field.

The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Third Edition, assists judges in managing cases involving complex scientific and technical evidence by describing the basic tenets of key scientific fields from which legal evidence is typically derived and by providing examples of cases in which that evidence has been used.

The first book about the Albatross Press, a Penguin precursor that entered into an uneasy relationship with the Nazi regime to keep Anglo-American literature alive under fascism The Albatross Press was, from its beginnings in 1932, a “strange bird”: a cultural outsider to the Third Reich but an economic insider.

Privacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world.

The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Third Edition, assists judges in managing cases involving complex scientific and technical evidence by describing the basic tenets of key scientific fields from which legal evidence is typically derived and by providing examples of cases in which that evidence has been used.

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In 1992 the National Research Council issued DNA Technology in Forensic Science, a book that documented the state of the art in this emerging field.

Privacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world.

Every day in the United States, children and adolescents are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the U.

Every day in the United States, children and adolescents are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking.

';Michael is living proof that love always has the power to bring you home.

In 21st century Britain the rich are protected while the poor punished.

From time to time, into the news burst accounts of regular people who commit crimes that seem totally out of character according to those who know them well.

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In this book, leading academics and policy practitioners develop approaches for managing critical contemporary and emerging security challenges for South East Europe.

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This collection brings together international contributors from multiple disciplines to discuss the current public, social and governmental understandings and responses to sexual violence.

Using narrative accounts from a sample of 69 New York City-based musicians of various genres who are self-acknowledged heroin users, the book addresses the reasons why these musicians started using heroin and the impact heroin had on these musicians' playing, creativity, and careers.

This book critically examines the operation of the partial defence of provocation in a range of comparative international jurisdictions.

The Online Journalism Handbook offers a comprehensive guide to the ever-evolving world of digital journalism, showcasing the multiple possibilities in researching, writing, and storytelling provided by new technologies.

Global justice is of every increasing importance in the contemporary political world.

This book explores how social and territorial boundaries have influenced the approaches and practices of the South Africa Police Service (SAPS).

Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard, applying these to a range of violent events - events often labelled 'inexplicable' - in order to show how even the most extreme of acts can be seen as socially meaningful.

In 21st century Britain the rich are protected while the poor punished.

Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard, applying these to a range of violent events - events often labelled 'inexplicable' - in order to show how even the most extreme of acts can be seen as socially meaningful.

This book examines how the war crime legacy resulting from the Yugoslav war of the 1990s on political and military transformation in Serbia was an impediment to security reform, democratization and the achievement of Western standards in the Belgrade armed forces.

Will 'what works' in one country work in another?

Bringing together leading academics and practitioners from across the globe, this unique collection explores the emerging field of heritage crime studies.

There are millions of children experiencing parental imprisonment all over the world.

Curumbá, eine brasilianische Kleinstadt nahe der bolivianischen Grenze.

This book reveals the extent, types, investigation, enforcement and governance of international corruption.

El encarcelamiento por delitos de drogas está contribuyendo enormemente a la crisis de hacinamiento en centros penitenciarios del país, que es del 50%.

Exploring the way in which criminal punishment is interpreted and narrated by offenders, this book examines the meaning offenders ascribe to their sentence and the consequences of this for future desistance.

This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of crime, safety and security.

Analyzing women labeled as terrorists in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gender and the Political examines Western cultural constructions of the female terrorist.

This textbook links theory to policy and practice and takes a comparative, international focus on current issues, making it vital reading for any student of Youth Justice.

Conspiracy theories are a popular topic of conversation in everyday life but are often frowned upon in academic discussions.

Through a study of ten commercially published prison autobiographies, Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution unveils how prison is narrativized and socially represented as an abject and uncanny institution, shedding new light on what prison is and does in Western carceral imaginations.

This textbook links theory to policy and practice and takes a comparative, international focus on current issues, making it vital reading for any student of Youth Justice.

This book analyses the practice of virginity testing endured by South Asian women who wished to enter Britain between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, and places this practice into a wider historical context.