Crime and criminology Books

An expansion of Dr. Rudofossi's theory of Police and Public Safety Complex Trauma, this text integrates other models of trauma and loss into a one-of-a-kind intervention model. It offers insider perspectives from police psychologists, police managers,...

The use of DNA profiling in forensic cases has been considered the most innovative technique in forensic science since fingerprinting, yet for those with limited scientific knowledge, understanding DNA enough to utilize it properly can be a daunting task...

While professional courses and how-to manuals can prepare us for expected events that will occur in the course of our careers, there remains an untapped reservoir of life experience that cannot be prepared for in training or study. These events and...

The Memoir of John Stanford, Late Chaplain to the Humane and Criminal Institutions in the City of New York (1835) is a book written by Charles George Sommers. This memoir is a detailed account of the life and work of John Stanford, a chaplain who served...

Memoirs Of Jane Cameron V1: Female Convict (1864) is a book written by Frederick William Robinson. The book is a memoir of Jane Cameron, a female convict who was sentenced to transportation to Australia for her crimes. The book is divided into several...

Tales of the Convict System is a book written by Warung and Price in 1892. The book is a collection of stories that shed light on the harsh realities of the Australian convict system during the 19th century. The stories are based on the authors' personal...

Lost and Found or Light in the Prison: A Narrative, with Original Letters, of a Convict, Condemned for Forgery is a book written by Benjamin Bensley and published in 1859. The book tells the story of a man who is convicted of forgery and sent to prison...

The New York State Reformatory in Elmira is a historical book written by Alexander Winter in 1891. The book provides a detailed account of the establishment and operations of the New York State Reformatory in Elmira, which was the first reformatory in...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

Environmental criminology is a term that encompasses a range of overlapping perspectives. At its core, the many strands of environmental criminology are bound by a common focus on the role that the immediate environment plays in the performance of crime,...

Genocide and Victimology examines genocide in its diverse features, from different yet connected perspectives, to offer an interdisciplinary, victimological imagination of genocide. It will include in its exploration critical and cultural victimologies...

The historical context of family violence is explored, as well as the various forms of violence, their prevalence in specific stages of life, and responses to it made by the criminal justice system and other agencies. The linkage among child abuse,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht und Kriminalität, Note: 1,7, Universität Hamburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit befasst sich inhaltlich mit der Thematik des Täter-Opfer-Ausgleichs. Konkret geht es darum...

Die moderne Forensik überführt Verbrecher, identifiziert Opfer und entlastet Unschuldige mit Hilfe hochentwickelter wissenschaftlicher Verfahren. Aus den Gerichtssälen der Welt sind ihre Beweise ebenso wenig wegzudenken wie aus Krimiserien wie dem Tatort...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit / Sozialarbeit, Note: 2.0, Technische Hochschule Köln, ehem. Fachhochschule Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit betrachtet die Ursachen sowie die Besonderheiten von...

This is a true story of the multiple murder of a poor dairy farm family during the depression in upstate New York. The case went unsolved for 90 years. This awful crime has been reported worldwide throughout the years and has been the focus of a slew of...

Though many more women offenders are supervised in the community than in custody, much less is known about their needs and effective approaches to their supervision, support and treatment. Whilst there has been recent attention paid to responding to the...

Prisoners' Rights: Principles and Practice considers prisoners' rights from socio-legal and philosophical perspectives, and assesses the advantages and problems of a rights-based approach to imprisonment. At a time of record levels of imprisonment and...

In April 2021, the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of 39 former Subpostmasters and ruled their prosecutions were an affront to the public conscience. They were just a few of the hundreds who had been prosecuted by the Post Office using IT...

This book covers criminal justice and terrorism topics, with some related political studies. It consists of a collection of essays and research studies designed for academic audiences. This is a useful guide for high schoolers, college students,...

More than two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons--one in nine is serving a life sentence. Mass long-term imprisonment devours state budgets, adversely affects community well-being and skews our collective moral compass. This study...

In December 1883, five outlaws attempted to rob the A.A. Castaneda Mercantile establishment in the fledgling mining town of Bisbee in the Arizona Territory. The robbery was a disaster: four citizens shot dead, one a pregnant woman. The failed heist...

The rotary jail was a very unusual architectural design. In response to a need for better control over prisoners, 18 of the revolving, escape-proof structures were erected in the United States from 1882 through 1889. There were problems. There were...

Richmond in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was home to a lively underworld of tricksters, swindlers, confidence men and thieves. The former Confederate capital's under-staffed police force and dense population--large numbers of immigrants and...

Prisoners are in a grey area regarding library services. Prison libraries violate many tenets of librarianship, with the justification of maintaining order. The field is de-professionalized--many positions are filled by persons without degrees in...

Western movies are full of images of swaggering outlaws brought to justice by valiant lawmen shooting them down in daring gunfights before riding off into the sunset. In reality it would not have happened that way. Real lawmen did not simply walk away...

Developed by progressive social scientists in the early 20th century, the juvenile justice system in the U.S. consisted of courts and corrections aimed at reforming disorderly youth. Poor immigrant boys, roaming the streets unsupervised, were its...

Analyzes the tensions and triumphs of a unique, faith-based, addiction recovery organization in a high poverty neighborhood.

Raid and Reform: By a Pretoria Prisoner (1898) is a historical book written by Alfred Peter Hillier. The book is a first-hand account of the author's experiences during the Second Boer War, which took place between 1899 and 1902. Hillier was a British...

""The Identification of the Human Skeleton: A Medico-Legal Study"" is a book written by Thomas Dwight and published in 1878. The book is a comprehensive study of the human skeleton and its identification, particularly in forensic and medico-legal...

""Separate Courts of Justice for Children: Probation and Probation Officers"" is a book written by Nettie Adler in 1908. The book discusses the need for separate courts of justice for children and the role of probation officers in the juvenile justice...

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Die Verhandlungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft f�����r Psychiatrie und Gerichtliche Psychologie und der Section f�����r Staatsarzneikunde und Psychiatrie (1857) ist ein Buch von A. Erlenmeyer. Es enth�����lt die Protokolle und Diskussionen der...

This book brings together an international group of experts to present cutting-edge psychological research on crime, policing and courts. With contributors from the UK, Germany, Italy, Norway, Cyprus, Israel, Canada and the USA, this volume explores some...

The Aristocracy of England: A History for the People is a historical book written by William Howitt and published in 1846. The book is a detailed account of the English aristocracy, its origins, and its evolution over the centuries. The author provides...

""Smuggling And Smugglers In Sussex: The Genuine History Of The Inhuman And Unparalleled Murders Of William Galley And Daniel Chater (1749)"" by William Durrant Cooper is a non-fiction book that explores the history of smuggling in Sussex, England,...

""Six Months In A House Of Correction: Or The Narrative Of Dorah Mahony"" is a memoir written by Dorah Mahony and published in 1835. The book chronicles Mahony's experiences during her six-month stay in a house of correction, a type of prison for women...

Secrets of the Prison House V2: Or Gaol Studies and Sketches is a book written by Arthur Griffiths and first published in 1894. The book is a collection of studies and sketches on the subject of prisons and the penal system. In this second volume,...

Riches and Poverty is a book written by Leo George Chiozza Money and was first published in 1908. The book discusses the nature of wealth and poverty in society and how they are intertwined. Money argues that poverty is not caused by individual failure,...

Il libro ""Svolgimento Storico Della Amministrazione Comunale Di Genova (1885)"" di Raffaele Drago fornisce una dettagliata descrizione dell'amministrazione comunale di Genova dal Medioevo fino alla fine del XIX secolo. L'autore esamina la struttura...

Repertorium Juris est liber a Nicolao Vigelio scriptus anno MDCCIV. In hoc libro, Vigelius disputationes viginti causarum continet, ex quibus maxima hujus repertorii utilitas apparet. Liber iste est repertorium juris, quod significat, omnes leges et...

How does international criminal procedure differ from any domestic legal principles and why? What premises of international criminal procedure do give rise to such differences? Can we provide any unified socio-legal explanation for the differences...

This open access book explores the use of technologies for urban safety and security. Rather than focusing on the technologies themselves, it provides and in-depth analysis of the complex urban transformations linked to the increasing...

This book constructs the theoretical framework based on a range of prominent social theories to address how juvenile delinquency is socioeconomically constructed. Here the presentation of conceptual details is supported by Chinese literature that...

This book uses humanity-rationality and experience and the freedom of human will as a theoretical perspective to examine the basic framework of criminal law theories constructed by the criminal classic school and the criminal empirical school. The author...

​This book examines the complex issue of familicide-suicide - the murder of a partner and children followed by suicide. The purpose of the book is two-fold: to advance a feminist sociological analysis of familicide as a form of gender-based violence, and...