Social services and welfare, criminology

Security metrics is the application of quantitative, statistical, and/or mathematical analyses to measuring security functional trends and workload.

Crime Laboratory Management is the first book to address the unique operational, administrative, and political issues involved in managing a forensic laboratory.

Over the past decade, legal wagering has expanded rapidly in North America.

Building on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone Manual is intended for use outside the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic scientists, anthropologists and researchers.

Following on the success of his introductory text, Digital Evidence and Computer Crime, Eoghan Casey brings together a few top experts to create the first detailed guide for professionals who are already familiar with digital evidence.

Vulnerability Assessment of Physical Protection Systems guides the reader through the topic of physical security with a unique, detailed and scientific approach.

The Rape Investigation Handbook is the first practical and hands-on manual written by sex crime investigators and forensic scientists, providing students with first-hand insight into the work of these professionals.

The Process of Investigation, Third Edition, is a book written to address the needs of the private investigator in the security field.

A practical reference written to assist the security professional in clearly identifying what systems are required to meet security needs as defined by a threat analysis and vulnerability assessment.

*This book is published in the US as Tracers in the Dark.

Media and the American Child summarizes the research on all forms of media on children, looking at how much time they spend with media everyday, television programming and its impact on children, how advertising has changed to appeal directly to children and the effects on children and the consumer behavior of parents, the relationship between media use and scholastic achievement, the influence of violence in media on anti-social behavior, and the role of media in influencing attitudes on body image, sex and work roles, fashion, & lifestyle.

Marek's disease is a form of cancer of poultry caused by an important herpesvirus (MDV).

Investigating Child Exploitation and Pornography provides the historical, legal, technical, and social background for the laws prohibiting child exploitation, in particular, child pornography.

Intruder Alarms provides a definitive and fully up-to-date guide to the specification, systems design, integration, installation and maintenance of intruder alarm systems.

Introduction to Environmental Forensics helps readers unravel the complexities of environmental pollution cases.

The Handbook on the Economics of Giving, Reciprocity and Altruism provides a comprehensive set of reviews of literature on the economics of nonmarket voluntary transfers.

The Handbook on the Economics of Giving, Reciprocity and Altruism provides a comprehensive set of reviews of literature on the economics of nonmarket voluntary transfers.

Forensic Investigation of Stolen-Recovered and Other Crime-Related Vehicles provides unique and detailed insights into the investigations of one of the most common crime scenes in the world.

Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques, Second Edition, is completely revised and updated so as to cover all the information a student needs to know to obtain answers from a witness, a victim, or a suspect and how to interpret these answers with the utmost accuracy.

Crime Scene Photography is a book wrought from years of experience, with material carefully selected for ease of use and effectiveness in training, and field tested by the author in his role as a Forensic Services Supervisor for the Baltimore County Police Department.

Das Buch gibt Einblicke in die heilpädagogische Praxis und zeigt Ausschnitte aus der Ausbildung an der Fachschule für Heilpädagogik in Ravensburg.

The AIDS Pandemic explores the ways in which HIV/AIDS has, and continues to transform the wide range of related disciplines it touches.

Trace Evidence Analysis continues and builds upon the tradition of its successful companion title Mute Witnesses (2000).

The identification of even the smallest human fetal bone can be vital to the success of a criminal investigation or to the identification of the deceased.

Aage Sorensen was an influential intellectual presence who was one of the world's leading authorities on social stratification and the sociology of education.

Ein bis zwei Prozent der im Deutschen Reich zur Wehrmacht Einberufenen verweigerten den Kriegsdienst oder desertierten zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt.

The geopolitics of American law enforcement and how it changed corporate criminal accountability in other countriesOver the past decade, many of the world's biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental damage, tax evasion, or sanction violations.

The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination.

The Handbook of Forensic Drug Analysis is a comprehensive chemical and analytic reference for the forensic analysis of illicit drugs.

Serial Crime provides a theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the motivation and dynamics in a range of serial offenses .

Forensic science laboratories' reputations have increasingly come under fire.

Forensic Pathology is a comprehensive reference that uses a case-oriented format to address, explain and guide the reader through the varied topics encountered by forensic pathologists.

Forensic DNA Typing, Second Edition, is the only book available that specifically covers detailed information on mitochondrial DNA and the Y chromosome.

This handbook is written for police investigators and forensic personnel who are tasked with developing investigations that require expertise in dentistry.

Effective Physical Security, Third Edition is a best-practices compendium that details the essential elements to physical security protection.

Expert contributors drawn from the ranks of academia and industry have authored chapters in such areas as third-generation wireless, wireless sensor networks, RF power amplifiers, spread spectrum modulation, signal propagation, antennas, and other key subjects that engineers working in RF and wireless need to be familiar with.

The Inter City Firm.

The high-technology crime investigator's profession is one of the fastest growing professions in the world today, as information security issues and crimes related to them are growing in number and magnitude at an ever-increasing pace.

Security Law and Methods examines suggested security methods designed to diminish or negate the consequence of crime and misconduct, and is an attempt to understand both the legal exposures related to crime and the security methods designed to prevent crime.

It is now possible to predict the future when it comes to crime.

The Psychology of Lust Murder systematically examines the phenomenon of paraphilia (i.

Despite the well-established consensus on the need for an interdisciplinary research paradigm to understand the unfolding of human lives within their social context, existing empirical research rarely embraces this belief.

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility continues its tradition of publishing the best and most innovative research on the changing landscape of social inequality the world over.

Die Kinder- und Jugendhilfe ist eines der wichtigsten und der differenziertesten Arbeitsfelder in der Sozialen Arbeit.

This volume brings together former students, colleagues, and others influenced by the sociological scholarship of Archibald O.

Current debates in life course studies increasingly reference theories of individualization, standardization, and differentiation in the structure of the life course.

Charging for the use of transport infrastructure has very different traditions in the various modes, reflecting the different nature of their infrastructure (nodal vs.

This new textbook provides students with the basic principles and practice standards of forensic victimology--the scientific study of victims for the purposes of addressing investigative and forensic issues.

Rinderpest and Peste des Petits Ruminants tells the story of how, by the year 2010, scientists are set to globally eradicate one of the great historic plagues that has ravaged human livestock for centuries.

Microbial Forensics describes the new and growing field of Microbial Forensics- the science that will help bring to justice criminals and terrorists who use biological material to cause harm.