Crime and criminology

Investigations in Sex Estimation: A Comparison of Morphological and Metrical Methods is a collective comparison of the many morphological and metric methods currently used on adult and juvenile human remains.

From ISIS propaganda videos to popular regime-backed TV series and digital activism, the Syrian conflict has been dramatically affected by the production of media, at the same time generating in its turn an impressive visual culture.

Pediatric nursing is the niche area of nursing where one works solely with babies, toddlers and children.

A handy, pocket-sized guide designed to make placements more enjoyable and less stressful for children's nursing students.

Child Sexual Abuse: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact, and Management covers the issue of child sexual abuse from several viewpoints.

Shooting Incident Reconstruction, Third Edition, offers a thorough explanation of matters from simple to complex to help the reader understand the factors surrounding ballistics, trajectory, and shooting scenes.

Security Controls Evaluation, Testing, and Assessment Handbook, Second Edition, provides a current and well-developed approach to evaluate and test IT security controls to prove they are functioning correctly.

There is a growing acknowledgment amongst professionals and academics that we need to develop new responses to crime.

This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance edited by Mathieu Deflem addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order.

Estimation of Time since Death in Australian Conditions collates data about decomposed bodies found in the eastern states of Australia from the years 2000 to 2010.

Winner of the 2021 ESC Book Award.

When You Have to Go to Prison was written to help anyone who is preparing to go to prison with the possibilities, expectations, and realities of their situation - from the strain it will put on a marriage to the conversations you will need to have with your children.

In Bloodstain Pattern Evidence, the concepts introduced in the author's first book, Blood Dynamics, are updated and applied to provide essential answers in the resolution of actual crimes.

Design and Evaluation of Physical Security Systems, Second Edition, includes updated references to security expectations and changes since 9/11.

Communications is key to the success of disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.

Prisoner enfranchisement remains one of the few contested electoral issues in twenty-first-century democracies.

More than two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons--one in nine is serving a life sentence.

Presented in chronological order, this book provides essential details about the 1,152 men and women who were legally put to death in North and South Carolina during the century after the Civil War.

In a revised and updated edition, this book continues the debate on whether transplantable organs of executed capital felons should be used to save lives.

The Soviet era was a time of social and economic upheaval in Russia's history as the Bolsheviks strove to build a socialist utopia based on the theories of Karl Marx.

This series of absorbing case studies focuses on the portrayal of Pakistani women in the global media.

Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie.

Is there anything new to be read about Jack the Ripper, whose identity has been sought by countless "e;Ripperologists"e; for more than 120 years?

Decades before the Salem Witch trials, 11 people were hanged as witches in the Connecticut River Valley.

Why do Americans alternately celebrate and condemn gangsters, outlaws and corrupt politicians?

These mystifying and spine-tingling stories are just what the doctor ordered and they are all true.

This innovative text for Neonatal Nurses and NICU clinicians introduces new, evidence-based care protocols proven to mitigate or reduce the profound morbidities and subsequent developmental challenges that afflict newborns in the NICU.

An upright citizen kidnapped in public and dumped in a shallow grave.

Techniques to uncover and avoid accounting frauds and scamsInflated profits .

The path of Grand Prix racing in America wound through raceways at Sebring, Riverside, Watkins Glen, Long Beach, and finally Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

By developing a new analytical method of narrative discourse analysis, this study introduces new insights from literary studies and narratology into International Relations.

In recent years there has been a significant growth in interest of the so-called "e;law in context"e; extending legal studies beyond black letter law.

During the fourteen years Sydney Howard Gay edited the American Anti-Slavery Society's National Anti-Slavery Standard in New York City, he worked with some of the most important Underground agents in the eastern United States, including Thomas Garrett, William Still and James Miller McKim.

World War I began disastrously for the English when the Germans routed them at Mons, Belgium, on August 23 and 24, 1914.

The 1960s were one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.

Contents, Foreword 5, Preface 9, List of Contributors 11, 1.

In this collection of essays, interviews, and speeches, the renowned activist examines today's issues-from Black Lives Matter to prison abolition and more.

Based on 15 years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book understands the increasing violence seen in cities as a product of the emergence of transnational illegal markets since the 1970's, followed by the suppression of unskilled workers, in many places racialised young men from poor neighbourhoods.

This book discusses the framing of referendum campaigns in the news media, focusing particularly on the case of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

This book discusses the framing of referendum campaigns in the news media, focusing particularly on the case of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

Over the years, technological advances have given publishers the ability to produce more books and online publications with greater speed.

This is an invaluable guide for those involved in supporting policing students, including lecturers, tutors, trainers, mentors and coaches.

Written by noted AP photographer and photoeditor Brian Horton, this is an insider's manual to one of the most glamorous and exciting media professions.

This book is an investigation of the 300 year old model of global journalism used by the Western news media.

On June 24, 1973, a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people.

A rare behind-the-scenes look at the work of forensic scientistsThe findings of forensic science-from DNA profiles and chemical identifications of illegal drugs to comparisons of bullets, fingerprints, and shoeprints-are widely used in police investigations and courtroom proceedings.

How global organized crime shapes the politics of borders in modern conflictsSeparatism has been on the rise across the world since the end of the Cold War, dividing countries through political strife, ethnic conflict, and civil war, and redrawing the political map.

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This book questions the predominance of "e;media abundance"e; as a guiding concept for contemporary mediated politics.

This book provides an in-depth examination of the judicial response at the internationalcriminal tribunals (ICTs) to the violation of procedural standards in thepre-trial phase of proceedings.