Crime and criminology

This book explores and addresses body search practices in prison environments from different angles (criminology, sociology, human rights and law) and discusses such practices in different national contexts within Europe.

This edited volume offers a rich collection of up-to-date research and critical scholarship from various African institutions on incidents of youth violence, intervention and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.

Written specifically for nurses, this clinical handbook provides unmatched comprehensive information on pain management for the vulnerable neonatal population.

This book brings together academics and advocates to explore an emerging issue: the use of technology by perpetrators of domestic and family violence.

This book brings together academics and advocates to explore an emerging issue: the use of technology by perpetrators of domestic and family violence.

This book reviews the challenges that face American newspapers at the end of the 1980s, after a decade of circulation losses for many dailies and several decades of accelerating social change.

First published in 2004.

This book is one of the first ethnographic works on small-town stringers or informal news workers in Indian journalism.

First published in 2004.

This new edition of Community Justice in Australia expands on the discussion of how people who have committed offences can be engaged in the community.

First published in 2004.

Let's be realistic here.

This book presents an ethnographic study of contemporary ticket touts in the UK.

Let's be realistic here.

This new edition of Community Justice in Australia expands on the discussion of how people who have committed offences can be engaged in the community.

This book is one of the first ethnographic works on small-town stringers or informal news workers in Indian journalism.

This book reviews the challenges that face American newspapers at the end of the 1980s, after a decade of circulation losses for many dailies and several decades of accelerating social change.

First published in 2004.

Brings together a team of scholars from a range of disciplines, to explore the analysis of crime-related language.

Brings together a team of scholars from a range of disciplines, to explore the analysis of crime-related language.

Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2023Shortlisted for the Colvin Prize 2023A place of incarceration and liberation, political debate and historical denial, the H Block cell units of Long Kesh/Maze prison in Northern Ireland housed members of both Republican and Loyalist military groups during 'The Troubles' and are now considered 'icons' of that conflict.

Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2023Shortlisted for the Colvin Prize 2023A place of incarceration and liberation, political debate and historical denial, the H Block cell units of Long Kesh/Maze prison in Northern Ireland housed members of both Republican and Loyalist military groups during 'The Troubles' and are now considered 'icons' of that conflict.

This edited volume of essays analyzes how the entire practice of journalism in America has changed irrevocably due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Thirty-three years ago, a young man called Tookie organized a few guys together and called themselves the Crips.

This concise volume provides a methodology for conducting investigations into allegations against law-enforcement officers.

This textbook examines prisons and imprisonment.

This book provides practical guidance on establishing wellbeing services and interventions within policing for all of those working in law enforcement, particularly leaders and HR professionals.

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is believed to affect one in eight children worldwide (UNICEF, 2020).

This book shares essential insights into how the social sciences and technology could foster new advances in managing the complexity inherent to the criminal and digital policing landscape.

This book explains Japan's unique Prosecution Review Commission (PRC) which is composed of eleven lay people selected randomly from voter registration lists.

This book provides a holistic and interdisciplinary focus on the legal regulation and policing of football violence and disorder in Britain.

This brief examines proactive steps police can take to lessen the potential for disaster, improve preparedness for disasters that do occur and enhance our ability to respond to and recover from them.

This edited volume offers a rich collection of up-to-date research and critical scholarship from various African institutions on incidents of youth violence, intervention and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the area of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), focusing on its application to biological, forensic and materials sciences.

This book highlights how the practical skills of the police officer can be transferred into the realm of academic research and support them in becoming part of the evidence-based policing movement.

Exploring a specific type of sexual violence committed by a specific type of sexual offender, namely adult male on adult female stranger sexual violence, this book provides readers with an enhanced understanding of both the offences being committed and the offenders who commit them.

What images come to mind when you read the word 'intoxication'?

This book explains Europol's online sharing platforms efforts in three major cybercrime areas: ransomware, money laundering with cryptocurrencies, and online child sexual exploitation that Europol has already pushed private and public actors to cooperate.

Die Kleinen lässt man zahlen, die Großen lässt man laufenBirgit Orths ist seit 20 Jahren Steuerfahnderin.

Data Journalism and the COVID 19 Disruption offers an international, multidisciplinary account of how and to what extent the COVID 19 pandemic has been a blessing for data journalism.

Von der Fleischindustrie über Geldwäsche bis zur Fahrzeugbranche, von Umweltverbrechen über Cum-Ex bis Wirecard – die Headlines über kriminelle Praktiken in der Wirtschaft reißen nicht ab.

Von der Fleischindustrie über Geldwäsche bis zur Fahrzeugbranche, von Umweltverbrechen über Cum-Ex bis Wirecard – die Headlines über kriminelle Praktiken in der Wirtschaft reißen nicht ab.

Die Kinder- und Hausmärchen sind eines der zentralen Werke der europäischen Literatur und für viele noch immer das Entree in die Welt der Bücher.

Fernando Ortiz Fernández es considerado el precursor de los estudios sobre la cultura de origen africano en Cuba.

A riveting scientific account of why and how female serial killers commit murder—and often get away with it.

A riveting scientific account of why and how female serial killers commit murder—and often get away with it.

So you've always dreamed of a career in publishing.