Crime and criminology Books

This book introduces students to the challenges related to international crime and punishment, and the ways that criminal justice systems have sought to confront them.

This book offers a new and innovative way of thinking about desistance from crime, fusing our understanding of desistance transitions, youth transitions, and the impact of significant policy change on people with convictions in a way which is yet to be...

An ideal book for courses in corrections, social problems, criminology, and prisoner re-entry, this new edition dramatically expands and revises the previous edition to include more empirical data, significant engagement with current debates and...

La Criminalidad En España... ofrece un análisis profundo de la evolución del crimen y la justicia penal en España. José Jimeno Agius examina las raíces históricas de la criminalidad, las influencias sociales y económicas que la...

Du Système Pénitentiaire Agricole Et Professionnel Pour Les Prisonniers Adultes, by Vaucher-Crémieux, delves into a proposed agricultural and professional penitentiary system designed for adult prisoners. This detailed study,...

This book provides information on graduate programs in the United States and Canada to students and professionals who are interested in attending post-baccalaureate education in criminology or criminal justice. The book contains information for each...

This book shows how to use biopsychosocial assessment for crime prevention and to achieve more individualized treatment for those who commit crimes.

This volume explains connections between American culture and the incidence of serial murder, including reasons why most identified serial murderers are white, male Americans.

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Advances in Forensic Biology and DNA Typing examines a broad range of forensic DNA applications and topics, based on internationally recognized best practices.

Based on nearly a decade of research on police-media relations, and the first to undertake a deep ethnography of police communications and local news media in a single policing area, this book charts the emergence of an empowered professional police...

This book presents the latest research and developments in forensic archaeology, as discussed at the European Meetings on Forensic Archaeology (EMFA) from 2018 to 2023. It captures the dynamic and multidisciplinary nature of the field,...

This book discusses the major approaches, algorithms, and technologies used in automated face detection and recognition. Explaining the theory and practice of systems currently in vogue, the text covers face detection with colour and infrared face...

As communities continue to undergo rapid demographic shifts that modify their composition, culture, and collective values, police departments serving those communities must evolve accordingly in order to remain effective. This volume provides concrete...

This volume examines how new cutting edge forensic techniques are currently being applied or have the potential to be applied in judicial proceedings. Examples include new applications of Raman spectroscopy, quantum chemistry, lithium in DNA analysis,...

Written by a Certified Protection Professional (CPP), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and FBI-recognized subject matter expert, this text details the recommended protocol for protecting people and assets in hostile global settings. Scott Alan Ast offers...

Global Lockdown is the first book to apply a transnational feminist framework to the study of criminalization and imprisonment. The distinguished contributors to this collection offer a variety of perspectives, from former prisoners to advocates to...

This book is a critical summary and exegesis of the work of Nicole Rafter. It introduces Rafter's key works and assesses her contributions to the fields of feminist criminology, cultural criminology, and historical criminology, and explores her...

Ein Großteil der polizeilichen Praxis findet sichtbar im öffentlichen Raum statt und ist von unterschiedlichen, teilweise nur in Ansätzen beeinflussbaren Dynamiken betroffen. Daher sollte es nicht verwundern, dass dabei auch Fehler auftreten und bekannt...

This monograph addresses the role of criminal non-state actors in South America. In a departure from traditional analysis, the author notes that non-state actors that affect political and social life in the Global South are not always terrorist actors or...

"The Great Crime of the Nineteenth Century" by Edwin M. Hale delves into the societal ills and injustices of its time. The book raises critical questions about the nature of crime, the identification of criminals, and the appropriate measures for...

"Kuohujen Keskella" is a collection of poems by Osmo Orjanheimo, published in 1921. The title translates to "Amidst the Rapids," and the poems within offer a glimpse into the experiences of prison life and related themes. Written in Finnish, this...

"Hind-sights; or, Looking Backward at Swindles" delves into the world of 19th-century frauds and misrepresentations, offering a historical perspective on deceptive practices. John J. Dillon explores various swindles, providing insight into the methods...

Law and Order Reconsidered presents the comprehensive report of the Task Force on Law and Law Enforcement to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. Authored by James Sargent Campbell, Joseph R. Sahid, and David P. Stang, this...

<p>Discover how one woman's courage to act against overwhelming odds changed her life and the lives of those around her in Wing of an Angel.<br></p><p>This hard-hitting memoir by JB Hollows draws on ten years of experience in the...

Blood Stain Pattern Analysis with an Introduction to Crime Scene Reconstruction, Fourth Edition provides criminal investigators and forensic scientists with a complete and comprehensive handbook on bloodstain pattern analysis.

The Columbine tragedy on April 20, 1999 began a new era in law enforcement as it became apparent that the police response to such mass shootings must be drastically altered. By the time the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14,...

This book is the report of a collaborative effort. Frank Porporino and I arrived at the starting point for our work together by very different routes. Originally trained as an experimental psychologist, I had become in­...

U.S. Government Counterterrorism: A Guide to Who Does What is the first readily available, unclassified guide to the many U.S. government agencies, bureau offices, and programs involved in all aspects of countering terrorism domestically and overseas...

As gang violence continues to rise across the country and the world, police departments, prosecutors, and community members are seeking new methods to reduce the spread of gang-related criminal activity. Civil gang injunctions have become a growing...

Written in the same accessible manner as previous editions, the fifth edition of Karch's Pathology of Drug Abuse is an essential guide to the pathology, toxicology, and pharmacology of commonly abused drugs. The book focuses on the investigation of...

Juvenile Offenders and Guns explores how and why twenty-five incarcerated young men of color acquired and used guns, and how guns made them feel. Guns have multiple meanings and serve many purposes for these youth as they attempt to construct a capable...

This book presents a critical portrait of the British police through a detailed ethnography of their work at football matches. Megan O'Neill not only sheds light on a topic of intense media interest, football hooliganism, but also presents the police in...

The notion that women lie about rape is a prevalent belief with pervasive influence. This book is unique in combining police file data with interviews obtained from both rape survivors and detectives in order to critically explore how this belief affects...

Women, Crime and Language examines the relationships between discourses of crime and gender: how women are represented in fiction and reportage, and how they have represented themselves. Frances Gray explores a number of high-profile cases from the...

Presents new findings into the most mythologised and least understood area of crime and law enforcement, describing the world of drug trafficking in the words of traffickers and detectives.

In 2007, the Corston Report recommended a far-reaching, radical, 'women-centred' approach to women's imprisonment in England and Wales. It suggested a 'fundamental re-thinking' about how services to support women in conflict with the law are delivered in...

Rural crime has long been overlooked in the field of crime prevention. Sustained academic interrogation is necessary, therefore, to reduce the extensive economic and social costs of rural crime as well as to challenge some of the myths regarding the...

This book examines the drug dealer in contemporary society from an interdisciplinary perspective and considers the increasingly blurred demarcation between illegitimate and legitimate drug markets. It explores the motives and drivers of those involved in...

The post-World War Two period has witnessed numerous armed conflicts characterized by extensive violations of relevant obligatory international norms

Criminology has developed strong methodological tools over the past decades, establishing itself as a competitive, sophisticated, and independent social science. Perhaps because of its emphasis on matters of design, methodology, and quantitative...

Crime Scene Processing and Investigation Workbook, Second Edition is the only workbook which directly supports and cross-references methodology and terminology presented in Ross Gardner and Donna Krouskup's perennial best-seller Practical Crime Scene...

Statistical methods provide a logical, coherent framework in which data from experimental science can be analyzed. However, many researchers lack the statistical skills or resources that would allow them to explore their data to its full potential...

This book is a semi detailed analysis of the Assassination of JFK and the Trump Coup. It is not too detailed but it is detailed enough for a wide range of readers to enjoy and learn from its contents. The book covers the activity of the...

This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on femicide, using Israel as a case study. It offers a novel crimino-legal approach to femicide. The work extends its analysis to secondary victims of femicide and examines the applicability of...

Criminal Careers follows the lives and criminal behaviours of 2,397 people in Poland who as juveniles committed a crime and received a form of punishment from the juvenile court between the late 1980s and the year 2000. Through combining quantitative and...