Crime and criminology

The Women in Blue Helmetstells the story of the first all-female police unit deployed by India to the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia in January 2007.

One evening, while watching the news, Roger N.

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Lost Childhoods focuses on the life-course histories of thirty young men serving time in the Pennsylvania adult prison system for crimes they committed when they were minors.

In January 2012, millions participated in the now-infamous ';Internet blackout' against theStop Online Piracy Act, protesting the power it would have given intellectual property holders over the Internet.

When we talk about sexwhether great, good, bad, or unlawfulwe often turn to consentas both our erotic and moral savior.

In 2014, the arrest and detention of thousands of desperate young migrants at the southwest border of the United States exposed the U.

Hidden Truth takes the reader inside a Rhode Island juvenile prison to explore broader questions of how poor, disenfranchised young men come to terms with masculinity and identity.

Moral Wages offers the reader a vivid depiction of what it is like to work inside an agency that assists victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.

In a world in which media images of crime and deviance proliferate, where every facet of offending is reflected in a 'vast hall of mirrors', Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image makes sense of the increasingly blurred line between the real and the virtual.

This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer.

The first book of its kind, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History draws on the most recent developments in the historiography, to provide an overview of the history of forensic medicine in the West from the medieval period to the present day.

The New Security places the concept of 'security' under the spotlight to analyse its meaning in an original and contemporary context.

This book examines diverse literary writings in Bangla related to crime in late nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Bengal, with a timely focus on gender.

This book examines how movements from below pose challenges to the status quo.

This book provides the first full-length, English-language investigation of the multiple and often contradictory ways in which mothers who kill their children were portrayed in 1970s Japan.

This book is about harmful traditional practices: damaging and often violent acts which include female genital mutilation, forced marriage, honour killings and abuse, breast ironing, witchcraft and faith-based abuse.

This collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy.

This book explores the form, function and meaning of crime and execution broadsides printed in nineteenth-century Britain.

Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow.

Nobody's Law shows how people - who are disappointed, disenchanted, and outraged about the justice system - gradually move away from law.

Risk-based policing is a research advancement that improves public safety, and its applications prevent crime specifically by managing crime risks.

An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonmentDespite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice.

This volume explores the construction of an ethics for news media that is global in reach and impact.

Across the globe, violence prevention initiatives focused on men and boys are proliferating rapidly.

This Handbook fills a large gap in current scholarly literature on animal abuse studies.

This book explores how potential bio-threats and risks may evolve post 9/11 given the rapid changes in biotechnology and synthetic biology.

This book examines the lived reality of 'everyday multiculturalism', and the ways that young people make sense of the diverse world around them.

This book examines different models from around the world of how journalism can support deliberation - the processes in which societies recognize and discuss the issues that affect them, appraise the potential responses, and make decisions about whether and how to take action.

This authoritative book explores cases of whistleblowing from around the world, with a focus on cases in South Africa.

Crime scenes within correctional facilities present investigators with myriad challenges, not only in working, investigating, and collecting evidence but also in obtaining reliable eyewitness accounts.

In recent years we have witnessed a rising tension between the open architecture of the Internet and legal restrictions for online activities.

This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality.

This book explores the politics of narco-killing and public attitudes to violence and death in the Mexican Drug War.

This edited collection provides an innovative and detailed analysis of the relationship between the financial crisis, risk and corruption.

This book explores the use of handmade crafts as a vehicle for protest.

This book is the first green criminology text to focus specifically on Latin America.

This book addresses the causes of rising crime rates resulting from the rapid population growth and industrialization associated with natural resource extraction in rural communities.

This handbook showcases studies on art theft, fraud and forgeries, cultural heritage offences and related legal and ethical challenges.

This edited book explores the history, development and use of technology in the policing of society, showing that technology plays a key, if not pivotal role in the work of law enforcement.

This collection presents a diverse set of case studies and theoretical reflections on how criminologists engage with practitioners and policy makers while undertaking research.

This book represents a brief treatise on the theory and research behind the concept of desistance from crime.

This book provides a critical engagement with the idea of the 'security society' which has been the focus of so much attention in criminology and the social sciences more broadly.

This book undertakes an exploratory exercise in decolonizing criminology through engaging postcolonial and postdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.

This book assesses President Barack Obama's counterterrorism policy as it evolved throughout his presidency, from the expanded use of drones to the controversial decisions regarding the Syrian conflict.

Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century represents criminology's first book-length contribution to the study of water and water-related crimes, harms and security.

Modern Intellectual Property Law combines coverage of each intellectual property right granted for creations of the mind into a thoughtful, unified textbook.

Falling somewhere between childhood and adulthood, 'Youth' is a key period of transition.

This book explores this inherent contradiction present in most facets of Singaporean media, cultural and political discourses, and identifies the key regulatory strategies and technologies that the ruling People Action Party (PAP) employs to regulate Singapore media and culture, and thus govern the thoughts and conduct of Singaporeans.

Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Sociology of Rights puts forward the argument that rights must be understood as part of a social process: a terrain for strategies of inclusion and exclusion but also of contestation and negotiation.