Crime and criminology

Applying Local Climate Effects to Homicide Investigation presents the concepts behind using local climate and weather records to enhance understanding of criminal cases.

The public sphere is said to be in crisis.

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

Free Market Criminal Justice explains how faith in democratic politics and free markets has undermined the rule of law in US criminal process.

This authoritative volume explores different perspectives on economic and social justice and the challenges presented by and within the criminal justice system.

Health and Medical Public Relations takes a fresh look at media relations and news values.

This book examines domestic extremism and what is popularly referred to as radicalization.

Techniques to uncover and avoid accounting frauds and scamsInflated profits .

Feminist philosophers Barrett Emerick and Audrey Yap bring theoretical arguments about personhood and moral repair into conversation with the work of activists and the experiences of incarcerated people to make the case that prisons ought to be abolished.

When people pay bribes to foreign public officials, how should the law respond?

Creative criminals commit highly effective, novel crimes.

Written for the non-specialist media producer, this book offers a practical and engaging guide to basic digital media production using modern equipment and software.

This edited book provides a comprehensive survey of the modern state of the art in forensic linguistics.

A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment''s prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment.

La drogue est-elle un marché comme les autres ?

Every law enforcement patrol officer and investigator needs to understand both the tactical considerations of stopping and frisking a suspect, and the legal constraints that should govern that power.

Of all children reported to child protective services for suspected maltreatment in any form, the percentage of substantiated cases of actual physical abuse is quite small.

In 1994, when South Africans were finally seeing the light of freedom and independence, three well-respected businesswomen - Talullah Ntuli, Edna Whithead and Nkosazana Dlamini - formed the Black Widow Society, a secret organisation aimed at liberating women trapped in emotionally and physically abusive relationships by assisting in 'eliminating' their errant husbands.

This book examines the roots of systemic aggression against women in contemporary Mexico, and the connection between social practices and the institutional permissiveness of the Mexican State with regard to gendered violence.

To all appearances, Kerry is an idyllic tourist destination.

Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates.

This book documents the development of early intervention systems (EISs) internationally, and provides evidence for and against their effectiveness as a key tool to reduce police misconduct and improve the physical and psychological health of officers.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics relating to the worldwide effort to combat terrorism, as well as efforts by the United States and other nations to protect their national security interests.

The main feature of this work is that it explores criminal behavior from all aspects of Tinbergen's Four Questions.

Online Child Sexual Abuse: Grooming, Policing and Child Protection in a Multi-Media World addresses the complex, multi-faceted and, at times, counter-intuitive relationships between online grooming behaviours, risk assessment, police practices, and the actual danger of subsequent abuse in the physical world.

This book examines the lived experienes of death penalty defense lawyers and how they created a legal culture of resistance to the death penalty.

Der Anspruch, Theorie und Praxis mit Blick auf rassismuskritische Fachdidaktiken zu verzahnen, ist für die Konzeption dieses Bandes handlungsleitend.

This volume meditates on the various meanings of legitimation and expands on the notion that language can be used to gain or preserve it by demonstrating the added impact of other modes in specific examples of political and institutional discourse.

This book uses humanity-rationality and experience and the freedom of human will as a theoretical perspective to examine the basic framework of criminal law theories constructed by the criminal classic school and the criminal empirical school.

A unique book on recognition and investigation of criminal poisoning for investigators of all backgrounds and stages of their careers.

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century.

The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the Soviet-era gulags to become Russia’s international criminal class.

On a wintry night in 1831, a man named Charlie Silver was murdered with an axe and his body burned in a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina.

On the back of their last book, Cyber-risk and Youth, and building on a new research project, Adorjan and Ricciardelli marshal current research to explore parenting in the digital age.

Recognizing that the quality of governance is a crucial factor in the overall development of a country, experts on government ethics and law enforcement examine the principles that need to be applied to create more effective and efficient governments.

Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Eleventh Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance.

Based on social research conducted in different countries in Europe, the U.

Criminality has accompanied social life from the outset.

Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things: Future Directions and Applications explores a wide range of important and real-time issues and applications in this ever-advancing field.

This book maps the changes in court advocacy in England and Wales over the last three centuries.

How does someone come to live a life of activism, supporting the fight to abolish the death penalty in the US; to defend Indigenous peoples' rights in the US, Central and South America; and to free prisoners of conscience in South Korea, Indonesia, Chile, Sudan, and South Africa?

The Solo Video Journalist, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the solo video reporting process from start to finish.

Anti-competitive business cartels, engaging in practices such as price fixing, market sharing, bid rigging and restrictions on output, are now subject to strong official censure and rigorous legal control in a large number of jurisdictions across the world.

Treating nuclear, biological, and chemical agent exposures presents a unique set of challenges.

This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries.

This book brings a new spatial analysis to gang territories through the concept of the gang assemblage- the variety of actors, contexts, and practices that create and maintain these spaces.

This research monograph provides a comparative analysis of juvenile court outcomes, exploring the influence of contextual factors on juvenile punishment across systems and communities.

In the decade since the passage of rape reform legislation in 1983, Canada has witnessed an extraordinary growth in public concern about the pervasive and painful issue of sexual assault.

This book develops principles of proper sentence justification, presents results of comparative empirical study on sentence justifications in the post-communist countries and provides practical measures to improve the current situation.