Crime and criminology Books

Domestic violence does not discriminate and is prevalent throughout the word regardless of race, age or socio-economic status. Why, then, do reactions and response differ so widely throughout the world? While some countries work diligently to address the...

The organization of human smuggling from the Middle East and Africa through Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean has become a contemporary political concern throughout Europe, receiving intense and polarised media attention. This timely book reformulates...

This book discusses various common occupational and organizational fraud schemes, based on the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) fraud tree and assist fraud examiners and auditors in correctly choosing the appropriate audit tests to uncover...

The police are perhaps the most visible representation of government. They are charged with what has been characterized as an "impossible" mandate -- control and prevent crime, keep the peace, provide public services -- and do so within the...

A man who made getting out, not only possible but certain.  When mob boss Gino Suraci is gunned down after a confrontation with a rival boss doing good in the world is the last thing on his mind. After all, he's dead.But in the most...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht und Kriminalität, Note: 1,0, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Organisierte Kriminalität gilt heutzutage nicht mehr als Phänomen bestimmter Länder, sondern ist weltweit verbreitet...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht und Kriminalität, Note: 1,0, Universität Hamburg (Institut für kriminologische Sozialforschung), Veranstaltung: Policing, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit beschäftigt sich mit...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht und Kriminalität, Note: 1,7, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Es sich die Frage, wie die Kooperation von Polizei und Sozialen Organisationen verbessert werden kann, um Jugendkriminalität...

Un homme en combinaison isolante avec un masque et des gants qui photographie une scène de crime Une femme en blouse blanche qui examine des traces de peinture sous le microscopeVous avez reconnu un expert de la police technique et scientifiqueMais...

This book reveals amazing examples of what has and is happening with science and DNA forensics.The public now knows the DNA molecule by sight and how it can assist in solving crimes such as murder and sexual assaults. In this book, the authors...

The most important position in any management hierarchy is the first line supervisor. It’s where the rubber meets the road for ensuring an organization’s mission gets done as expected. And yet, it is the position least likely to receive any...

Write to Protect and Serve is the only guide on police report writing an officer will need. Written for officers at all levels, this book discusses proper notetaking at the scene of the crime, different elements of police reports, and compliance...

2018 revised edition, with additional materialOn 19 March 1818, a young man called John Champley was committed to the House of Correction in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, for two years’ hard labour. He had been convicted of being a party to the...

Black money and financial crime are emerging global phenomena. During the last few decades, corrupt financial practices were increasingly being monitored in many countries around the globe. Among a large number of problems is a lack of general awareness...

In a decade that has seen the rise of far-right extremism, Western countries still face myriad threats of mass violence, including terrorism. Of particular concern is the phenomenon of "lone-wolf terrorism," whereby acts of political violence are...

Developing a knowledge model helps to formalize the difficult task of analyzing crime incidents in addition to preserving and presenting the digital evidence for legal processing. The use of data analytics techniques to collect evidence assists forensic...

Mass shootings have become more prevalent in the past few decades, especially within the United States. Whilst the United States has suffered from hundreds of mass shootings over the years, policy change relating to guns has been limited in scope,...

A Family's Strong Spiritual Connection with the Place Where They Grew Up. This book is a true account about my parents, brothers, sisters, relatives, and friends growing up on Big Plum Creek Road surrounded by the rural farming areas of Kentucky.As a...

WHAT THEY DO NOT TEACH AT SCHOOL, BUT WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENTTHE AUTHOR BASED THIS BOOK ON A REAL STORY. SHE WANTS YOU TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS INVOLVED IN THE "JUSTICE DEPARTMENT", EITHER STATE OR FEDERAL. ...

Drug Cartel and Gang Violence in Mexico and Central America: A Concise Introduction gives readers an overview of the issues associated with drugs, cartels, and gangs in Mexico and Central America. The readings are based on years of field research...

Teaching Criminological Theory is designed to help novice instructors of criminological theory courses become the best and most effective teachers possible. This comprehensive guide provides insight, information, examples, anecdotes, and...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

A Criminologist's Life: Essays in Honor of the Criminological Legacy of Francis T. Cullen honors the vast scholarly contributions of Francis T. "Frank" Cullen as well as the immeasurable influence that he has had on the field for over 40 years.  

This book provokes fresh ways of thinking about small developing States within the transnational legal order for combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism and proliferation (TAMLO).

In outlining the online expressions of penal life, this book disrupts the conventional human encounters that underpin empirical criminological scholarship on prisons because, figuratively speaking, prisons in Russia are de-nesting from their...

Cyber Victimology provides a global socio-legal-victimological perspective on victimisation online, written in clear, non-technical terms, and presents practical solutions for the problem. Halder qualitatively analyses the contemporary dimensions of...

This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons; known informally as 'star men', convicts assigned to the division were identified by a red star sewn to their uniforms.

This book critically investigates Nordic criminal justice as a global role model.

What survives of the notions, principles and values of critical criminology? Faced with contexts that could not be more dramatically different to those fostering critical approaches to crime and its control, what is left of the radical theories and...

This book has emerged in response to social service workers' vivid descriptions of changes in the practice of their craft during the past 15 years and to the scanty literature that addressed their concerns. Few works have attempted to explore the...

Richard Lawless’s Capitol Hill’s Criminal Underground: The Most Thorough Exploration of Government Corruption Ever Put in Writing is a no-holds-barred tell-all about the bad guys of Capital Hill and Wall Street, including the Department of...

How and when did forensic science originate in the UK? This question demands our attention because our understanding of present-day forensic science is vastly enriched through gaining an appreciation of what went before. A History of Forensic Science is...

This book takes a quantitative, empirical, approach to the police power of stop and search, examining its history, effectiveness, the public response, the problem of ethnic disproportionality and the possibility of its reform.

Violence is a research topic that is fraught with difficulties. A notoriously sensitive subject, and one that is presumed to be largely hidden, researchers have long struggled with the question of how to measure its impact and how to explore its...

Sir Leon Radzinowicz is one of the key figures in the development of criminology in the twentieth century. This account of the development of criminology intertwines his personal narrative as a criminologist with the progression of criminology itself...

"A rare and courageous voice speaking from a place we fear to know: Mumia Abu-Jamal must be heard." --Alice Walker"Resonates with the moral force of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham Jail." -Boston GlobeAfter twenty years on death row,...

Providing a broad, multidisciplinary approach, this volume draws on the editor's 30 years of explosives casework experience, including his work on task forces set up to investigate major explosives incidents. Assembling the contributions of...

Motherhood, Respectability & Baby-Farming in Victorian & Edwardian London explores the largely obscured marketplace of motherhood that provided ways for women to manage the stigma of illegitimacy and their respectable identities within Victorian...

The historical context of colonisation situates the analysis in Children, Care and Crime of the involvement of children with care experience in the criminal justice system in an Australian jurisdiction focusing on residential care, policing, the...

This book looks at rape myths and culture within the university environment, examining the development of social identities in the creation and support of such culture; it demonstrates how an understanding of rape culture is often at odds with an...

How can a society prevent-not deter, not punish-but prevent crime? Criminal justice prevention, commonly called crime control, aims to prevent crime after an initial offence has been commited through anything from an arrest to a death penalty sentence...

Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death penalty, either officially or in practice, due mainly to the campaign to end state executions led by Western European nations. Will this success spread to Asia, where over 95 percent...

Step inside the mysterious and eerie world of the Rock Island Roadhouse, where echoes of the past linger within its walls. Whispers in the Walls delves into the dark history and paranormal activity of this infamous building. Once a bustling stopover...

In his first book, Shane shares revealing, sometimes shocking, but always insightful true stories from his nearly 10 years in prisons from Alaska to Colorado. Told straight from the heart by arguably one of the most resilient and inspirational inmates...

India, with its vast population and diverse geography, faces a significant challenge in combating the illegal narcotics trade. The country's strategic location, sharing borders with major opium-producing regions, makes it vulnerable to drug trafficking...