Crime and criminology Books

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht und Kriminalität, Note: 1,3, Universität Leipzig (Institut für Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Auffälliges und delinquentes Verhalten von Fußballfans kann als seit Jahrzehnten...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht und Kriminalität, Note: 1,0, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Politik und Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Gesellschaft und Kommunikation - Mediensoziologie, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Vordiplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht und Kriminalität, Note: 1,5, Hochschule Fulda (Sozialwesen), Veranstaltung: Strafvollzugsrecht, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der deutschen Kriminalpolitik werden deutliche Zeichen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht und Kriminalität, Note: 1,7, Evangelische Hochschule Rheinland-Westfalen-Lippe, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Seit geraumer Zeit wird die Öffentlichkeit mit dem Thema Kindeswohlgefährdung...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht und Kriminalität, Note: 1,3, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Institut für Gesellschaftswissenschaft und Philosophie), Veranstaltung: Rechtssoziologie , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht und Kriminalität, Note: 1,0, Universität Osnabrück, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Anfang des Jahres 2008 wurde die öffentliche Meinung und die Berichterstattung sämtlicher Medien in...

This second volume of a comprehensive tour through mathematical core subjects for computer scientists completes the ?rst volume in two - gards: Part III ?rst adds topology, di?erential, and integral calculus to the t- ics of...

Unmasking Financial Deception: A Guide to Forensic Accounting is your ultimate companion in the intricate world of forensic accounting. This book is designed to equip you with the knowledge and tools needed to detect, investigate, and prevent financial...

This comprehensive reference work presents an in-depth analysis of juvenile justice systems across the world. The second edition of this Handbook has been updated with 13 new chapters, now covering a total of 34 countries, across North and...

This insightful volume integrates criminological theories, prevention science, and empirical findings to create an up-to-date survey of crime prevention research and strategies. Its interdisciplinary perspective expands on our knowledge of risk factors...

This book examines the changing police landscape over the past 25 years to establish how Police Leadership has evolved to meet this challenge. Through interviews with 35 Chief Police Officers in the UK, the author explores a range of policing issues...

This book explains a paradox in American constitutional law: how a right not discussed during the ratification debates at Philadelphia and not mentioned in the text has become a core component of modern freedom. Rather, privacy is a constitutional...

This book focuses on applications of social network analysis in predictive policing. Data science is used to identify potential criminal activity by analyzing the relationships between offenders to fully understand criminal collaboration patterns...

This book investigates the forms that the aggression and violence of peasant elites could take in early modern Fennoscandia, and their role within society. The contributors highlight the social stratification, inner divisions, contradictions and...

This book is a comparative quantitative analysis of the administration of justice across four English and three Welsh counties between 1760 and 1830. Drawing on a dataset of over 22,000 indictments, the book explores the similarities and differences...

There is little doubt that cyber-space has become the battle space for confrontations. However, to conduct cyber operations, a new armory of weapons needs to be employed. No matter how many, or how sophisticated an aggressor's kinetic weapons are, they...

This book compiles research on female crime and delinquency in Portugal in order to critically and reflectively explore interdisciplinary views on the link between gender, crime and delinquency. Contributions are organized into two main parts, with Part...

This book explores the subject of research misconduct: its definition, what behaviours should fall under its label, and the types of preventive and repressive procedures that should be put to practice to combat it. Adopting a criminological perspective,...

This book brings together an international group of experts to present the latest psychosocial and developmental criminological research on cyberbullying, cybervictimization and intervention. With contributions from a wide range of European countries,...

This edited collection provides an original and comprehensive take on retail crime and its prevention, by combining international data and multidisciplinary perspectives from criminologists, economists, geographers, police officers and other experts...

Youth justice has always focused on criminal justice but this work argues that taking a social justice approach is the best way to reduce youth crime. Drawing on philosophy, new research, and practitioners' views, a new organizational structure and...

This volume addresses an important historiographical gap by assessing the respective contributions of tradition and foreign influences to the 19th century codification of criminal law. More specifically, it focuses on the extent of French influence -...

This book focuses on the phenomenon of hacktivism and how it has been dealt with up to now in the United States and the United Kingdom. After discussing the birth of the phenomenon and the various relevant groups, from Electronic Disturbance Theater to...

This book provides an updated overview of current international human rights law relating to the police. Around the globe, the police have a special responsibility for the protection of human rights. Police work is governed by national rules and in...

What is good sex from the perspective of liberation theology? Thia Cooper argues that sex can be a way to know God. God created humans with a desire to be in relation with each other. From this understanding, sexual desire, sex, and partnerships are...

This book provides an important overview of key criminology and criminal justice concerns in Japan. It highlights similarities between the practice of criminology research in Japan, as well as important differences, with other areas of Asia and with the...

This is the first book to critically examine Hollywood films that focus on male partner violence against women. These films include Gaslight, Sleeping with the Enemy, What's Love Got to Do with It, Dolores Claiborne, Enough, and Safe Haven. Shaped by...

This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes. The chapters comprise original research from established prison scholars who develop the contours of a sociology of prison escapes. Drawing on firm...

This book provides a sociological examination of young people's pathways into, and out of, substance abuse. Drawing from in-depth, life-history interviews with over sixty young people who have experienced problematic drug use, the author uses...

This book discusses the role of the prison in Europe across a divide of over 200 years. Inspired by the travels of the prison reformer John Howard (1726-1790), who visited prisons across Europe in the eighteenth century, it fundamentally reflects on...

This book presents the results of a two-year international research project conducted for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) to investigate and provide solutions for reducing bribery and corruption in corporations and institutions. It...

This open access book provides a state-of-the-field of the interactions between emerging national asylum governance systems and the 2018 United Nations Global Compact for Refugees (UN GCR). It provides a detailed examination of the relationship and...

This short book provides a European-wide survey of mental health and probation. Drawing on a significant study, it explores the knowledge and attitudes to mental illness based on a sample of probation staff from 27 countries. It sets out the significance...

This edited book explores how requests and complaints by prisoners are being dealt with by prison governors/administrations or independent bodies (such as complaint commissions), in different parts of Europe. It asks who complains and why? How are...

The fifth volume of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL) discusses diverse and actual legal topics of international and comparative dimensions and angles.The BYEIL 2023 focuses on the special topic of Human Rights at...

This book examines common theoretical conceptualization of terrorism, including all the following dimensions:Macro-criminological theoriesPsycho-criminological models of aggressionPsycho-criminological models of risk and need (RNR)PsychopathologySocial...

This book serves as a comprehensive guide for legal practitioners, providing a primer on digital forensic evidence and essential technological concepts. Through real-world examples, this book offers a systematic overview of methodologies and best...

This edited volume is the first volume that researches female criminality in the Balkan region and provides insights about patriarchal relations, gender roles, and female criminal behavior. The chapters provide research and data about crimes committed by...

This book speaks to those interested in topics related to punitiveness and public attitudes to crime and punishment. Punitiveness has been the focus of increasing criminological attention in recent decades. This book extends this focus by taking a...

The phenomenon of child trafficking holds a unique position as an issue of significant contemporary relevance, occupying a principal place in debates about human rights today. The interchangeable terms trafficking and modern slavery evoke emotive...

This book highlights novel and pragmatic health promotion efforts being adopted with boys and young men of colour (BYMOC) globally that apply a strengths-based approach. Men's adoption of risky health practices and reluctance to seek help and engage...

Drawing upon both ethnographic research and genealogical analysis, this book represents the first in-depth scientific analysis of criminal offenders' electronic monitoring (EM) in Latin America's largest country. It focuses on three empirical axes: 1)...

This second edition textbook focuses on the duties of juvenile justice administrators, featuring more illustrations, examples of programs, and interviews of juvenile justice administrators. The edition is updated to address critical issues in the field,...

This book discusses the relationship between law and memory and explores the ways in which memory can be thought of as contributing to legal socialization and legal meaning-making. Against a backdrop of critical legal pluralism which...