Crime and criminology

Mass killing through genocide haunts humanity as one of the most horrific forms of warfare.

This book presents both a survey of and commentary upon the penal process of England and Wales between 1945 and 2020 from the primary perspective of prisons and their operational management.

For the first time, the author has explored the intertwinement of written law, Islamic law, and customary law in the highly complex Afghan society, being deeply influenced by traditional cultural and religious convictions.

Stephen Hartnett merges the evocative power of poetry with scholarly research to produce both a genre-bending critique of the prison industrial complex and an innovative new method of qualitative research.

This book examines whether and how non-state armed groups might be required to provide reparations for the harm caused by their violations of international law committed during situations of non-international armed conflict.

This timely volume explores the "e;dark side"e; of United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping in Africa: when rather than help establish a rule of law in the host country, they become perpetrators of crime.

This Brief provides an overview and history of the definition of serial homicide, from the perspectives of psychology, medicine, criminology and forensics.

This book offers an ethnographic study of the lives of girls in the juvenile justice system.

This book explores the complexities of drugs policy in Britain, contradicting the over simplified representation found in the public sphere.

​Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt Unterschiede zwischen neoliberalen und wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Strategien im Umgang mit sozialer Unsicherheit auf und argumentiert, dass die Entwicklung in Deutschland nicht angemessen verstanden werden kann, wenn Ähnlichkeiten zu den USA betont, Unterschiede nivelliert werden.

Women rarely kill.

This book is the first of its kind to bridge the gap between corpus linguistics and forensic linguistics, illustrating the value of applying corpus linguistic data, tools, and methods in the analysis of language in the law, evidence, crime, and justice.

This book investigates the political context and intentions behind the trialling of Japanese war criminals in the wake of World War Two.

This book analyzes human rights and crime prevention challenges from the perspective of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda, in particular its goal 16 on promoting peaceful, inclusive and just societies, the creation and development of which depend on the interplay between various secular and non-secular (f)actors.

This insightful volume integrates criminological theories, prevention science, and empirical findings to create an up-to-date survey of crime prevention research and strategies.

This textbook provides an overview for students in Criminology and Criminal Justice about the overlap between the criminal justice system and mental health.

This book explores cultural constructs, societal demands and political and philosophical underpinnings that position women in the world.

This Brief explores the problem of creating organizational change and a culture of lawfulness within police organizations in the developing world.

This book examines the development of imperial intelligence and policing directed against revolutionaries in the Indian province of Bengal from the first decade of the twentieth century through the beginning of the Second World War.

Awarded the 2019 Most Promising New Textbook Award by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association.

This book examines the use and impact of Australian Indigenous sentencing courts in response to Indigenous partner violence.

Much has been written about reintegration of ex-combatants in a traditional or conventional disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programme.

This volume brings together work by authors who draw upon sociological and criminological methods, theory, and frameworks, to produce research that pushes boundaries, considers new questions, and reshape the existing understanding of "e;art crimes"e;, with a strong emphasis on methodological innovation and novel theory application.

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

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This book examines the gun-related policy responses to three school shooting incidents in the United States.

This books demonstrates the difficulty of protecting victims of human trafficking from being held liable for crimes they were compelled to commit in the course, or as a consequence, of being trafficked, under current European law.

This book presents the multidisciplinary field of forensic archaeology as complementary but distinct from forensic anthropology.

This book is a study of the response that the police take to modern urban riots.

Das vorliegende Lehrbuch richtet sich an alle, die die Prüfung zur Schutz- und Sicherheitskraft vor einer Industrie- und Handelskammer ablegen wollen, dient aber auch als Nachschlagewerk für die Praxis und zur regelmäßigen Weiterbildung.

This book highlights the developmental changes in aggression and violence during adolescence from a uniquely psychological perspective.

Combining theory with practical application, this seminal introduction to juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice integrates the latest research with emerging problems and trends in an overview of the field.

This book considers the global discourses and debates about 'intoxication', engaging in critical academic discussion around this concept.

This book is an innovative presentation of the way in which the descendants of Muslim immigrants from Algeria in France perceive and deal with multiple social identifications.

This volume offers a European overview of the management of religious diversity in prisons and provides readers with rich empirical material and a comparative perspective.

This book explores the work of criminologist Colin Sumner.

This work investigates inequality and social exclusion in contemporary Chinese society, specifically in the context of urbanization, migration and crime.

This book examines links between post-conflict security, peace and development in Africa, Latin America, Europe and New Zealand.

This innovative volume examines the nexus between war crimes trials and the pursuit of collaborators in post-war Asia.

The central theme of this book is the nexus between the self, the social, and the sacred in conversion and recovery.

Die Sicherheit von Kindern im Zusammenhang mit dem Schutz vor Übergriffen und Gewalt ist ein Grundbedürfnis unserer Gesellschaft.

This book analyses current developments in Europe and Latin America towards the greater involvement of the parties in the administration of criminal justice.

Diese Studie begeht einen neuen Weg zur Erklärung von Devianz und Gewalt im Jugendalter, indem sie versucht, zwei soziologische Ansätze, die Theorie Sozialer Desintegration und die Control Balance Theory, miteinander zu verknüpfen.

This book brings to life the experiences of children affected by maternal imprisonment, and provides unique, in-depth analysis of judicial thinking on this issue.

This book offers novel insights about the ability of a democracy to accommodate violence.

As research continues to accumulate on the connections between media and crime, #Crime explores the impact of social media on the criminal legal system.

Mi Rinconcito en el Cielo (My Little Corner of the Sky) tells the remarkable story of Alberto "e;Beto"e; Gonzales, who overcame a childhood of poverty, addiction, bigotry, and violence and went on to change the lives of thousands of children and adults as a mentor and gang prevention specialist.

This book presents and brings together research on child sexual abuse from various countries and cultures in the Arab Region.