Social services and welfare, criminology

The process of investigation is dynamic and fluid.

This book covers every aspect of the informant and cooperating witness dynamic a controversial technique shrouded in secrecy and widely misunderstood.

Human trafficking is the third largest business for organized crime worldwide, next to illegal weapons trading and drugs.

From officially sanctioned, high-tech operations to budget spy cameras and cell phone video, this updated and expanded edition of a bestselling handbook reflects the rapid and significant growth of the surveillance industry.

An expansion of Dr.

Terrorism threats and increased school and workplace violence have always generated headlines, but in recent years, the response to these events has received heightened media scrutiny.

Extensively updated and expanded to incorporate legislative and practical changes enacted since the publication of the previous edition, Law for the Expert Witness, Fourth Edition is designed for professionals and students requiring edification on the current processes and techniques of legal procedure.

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This book represents the manifestation of a new presentation of old perspectives within the discipline of criminal justice.

Effective police organizations are run with sound leadership and management strategies that take into account the myriad of challenges that confront today's law enforcement professionals.

Cargo crime including theft, fraud, and the passage of contraband through commercial shipping lanes poses an enormous threat to security and the economy.

After 9/11, the initial focus from the U.

Forensic Gait Analysis examines the inter-section of podiatric medicine with forensic investigation-that which links or dissociates a suspect to a crime through analysis of their gait, that is their movement-how an individual walks, runs, and bends.

The research revolution in police work has uncovered a multitude of data, but this contemporary knowledge has done very little to change the way things are done in most police departments across the U.

Death in a Texas Desert is a fast-paced collection of 17 compelling true crime stories from the pages of the award-winning The Dallas Observer.

It is a story that moves us to tears.

Statistics in Criminal Justice takes an approach that emphasizes the application and interpretation of statistics in research in crime and justice.

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Caring for the ill, disabled, very old, or very young requires a labor-intensive commitment that is not only essential to the well-being of individuals and to society as a whole, but also fraught with physical, financial, and psychological risks.

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Transition to Parenthood moves beyond a one-study focus and captures multidisciplinary work on all families making the transition to parenthood.

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The use of simulation modeling in criminal justice dates back to the 1970s.

This unique volume explores a growing collaboration between the sport and health sectors to deliver innovative public health interventions in the community.

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Anyone who has ever had a job has probably experienced work-related stress at some point or another.

"e;Polygraphy;' "e;lie detection;' and the "e;detection of deception"e; are all terms that refer to an application of the science of psychophysiology, which itself employs physiological measures to study and differentiate between psychological processes.

There is an unmistakable gleam in Ma's eye, and her absolute composure both appalls me and rips my heart from its root.

While there is no such thing as a perfect match in the field of forensic comparative science, Forensic Comparative Science: Qualitative Quantitative Source Determination of Unique Impressions, Images, and Objects provides the experience, understanding, and judgment, necessary for concluding whether two unique images share common origin from a unique and persistent source.

Dieses neue Lehrbuch gibt einen breiten und empirisch fundierten Ein- und Überblick in das Gebiet der Klinischen Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie und Psychotherapie.

Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques, Sixth Edition covers a full range of fundamental topics essential to modern forensic casework and investigation.

Solving cold cases from the comfort of your living roomThe Skeleton Crew provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmeswannabes who race to beat out law enforcementand one anotherat matching missing persons with unidentified remains.

The legal aspects of child mental health have changed in recent years, yet many who deal professionally with disturbed children are ill informed about the rights and responsibilities of minors.

For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law - and those who operate just outside of it.

Unlike the vast majority of Peace Corps volunteers in the 1960s, John Fleming was a young Black man who was assigned to an all-white agricultural project in Malawi, an emerging African country surrounded by White-ruled Southern Rhodesia, Mozambique, and South Africa.

Now we make you ugly, my mother said.

All Our Todays is the first book about the BBC's most influential news and current affairs programme, published to celebrate Today's 40th anniversary in October 1997.

'Breaking Bad meets City of God' Roberto Saviano, author of GomorrahHUSBAND.

When Kate Lock first met Tim Franklin she was a naive undergraduate, and he was a charismatic mature student.

'Of course I'm a f**king hooligan, you pr**k.

Irish Travellers have never enjoyed a higher profile, at home and abroad, for good reasons and bad.

As one of the UK s leading forensic scientists, Mike Silverman has helped to identify and convict dozens of murderers, rapists, armed robbers, burglars and muggers, thanks to the evidence they or their victims unwittingly left behind at the scenes of their crimes.

THE BOOK BEHIND THE MAJOR BBC SERIESNow updated and including previously unseen photographs.

Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared.

The National Health Service is Britain's greatest and most prized national institution.

We live our lives online banking, shopping, working, dating but have we become complacent?

In the freezing winter of 2010, with the Irish recession in full flow, property tycoon Dermot Brennan is found dead at his Dublin home.

Charlie Richardson, one of Britain's most notorious gangland bosses, sheds light on his extraordinary life story completed just weeks before his death in September 2012.