Crime and criminology Books

P&P Brantingham's enormous contribution to criminology has paved the way for major theoretical and empirical developments in the understanding of crime and its respective patterns, prevention, and geometry. In this unique collection of original...

This edited collection illuminates the weaknesses and strengths of crime reporting across a wide range of countries, with a focus on democratic countries in which the police bear some accountability to citizens. In one compendium, for the first time,...

Motherhood after Incarceration: Community Reintegration for Mothers in the Criminal Legal System explores the relationships of women with their children immediately after periods of incarceration. The analysis draws on in-depth interviews with 39 women...

Policing Welfare Fraud charts and interrogates the suite of measures ostensibly designed to combat welfare fraud and non-compliance.

Offender profiling is an investigative tool used to narrow down the range of potential suspects for a crime by predicting the personality, behavioral, and demographic characteristics that an offender is likely to possess, based upon information collected...

The approach that should be used by law enforcement officers in order to safely and effectively enter a room is a point of contention among many police trainers. Based on five experiments conducted over a two-year period, Evaluating Police Tactics...

A significant barrier to successful juvenile intervention is misconduct committed against juveniles by the persons employed to help them. Professional Misconduct with Juveniles explores the nature of employee-on-youth misconduct, its extent, its...

Controversy rages about capital punishment as innocent men and women are being released from death rows all over the country. Are innocent people being executed? Is capital punishment justice or is it revenge? Into the debate steps Mark Fuhrman,...

這上帝Armaaruss: 我的一個世界政府、一個世界宗教和一個世界貨幣的計劃在古希臘和羅馬，人們相信行星會影響人們的事務。本書透過帶領讀者完成三個步驟的過程，復興了這個典範。首先，解釋與火星如何影響人類有關的定律。接下來的證據和證據表明，火星影響人和事件的信念是合理且合理的信念。這裡我們可以看到，本書所呈現的內容可以透過火星360系統來推動羅馬帝國的復興。由於羅馬人相信行星影響人類事務，本書透過觀察和統計證據量化了這種信念。 火星效應由法國研究員米歇爾·高奎林 (Michel Gauquelin) 於...

Nordic Homicide in Deep Time draws a unique and detailed picture of developments in human interpersonal violence and presents new findings on rates, patterns, and long-term changes in lethal violence in the Nordics. Conducted by an interdisciplinary team...

Akademische Arbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht und Kriminalität, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Aufdeckung des Wesens „Korruption" ist sehr schwer und zeigt, dass es sich hierbei um ein typisches Heimlichkeitsdelikt handelt...

Akademische Arbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht, Kriminalität abw. Verhalten, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Bis vor wenigen Jahren war Korruption noch ein Thema, welches man vor allem mit Entwicklungsländern, mit Osteuropa oder mit...

Akademische Arbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht, Kriminalität abw. Verhalten, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Korruption ist mittlerweile als Übel allgemein erkannt. Den Kampf dagegen haben sich Politik, Verwaltung und Wirtschaft...

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Sociology - Law, Delinquency, Abnormal Behavior, grade: A, University of Cambridge, language: English, abstract: If students are to succeed within the confines of the school community, all involved...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht und Kriminalität, Note: 1, Universität Bielefeld, Veranstaltung: Lehrforschung: Die massenmediale Thematisierung sozialer Probleme, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Kill one, frighten...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht und Kriminalität, Note: 1,0, Universität Bielefeld (Fakultät für Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Statt Freiheit, Gleichheit und Brüderlichkeit gibt es für ‚banlieusards', das...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht, Kriminalität abw. Verhalten, Note: 1,5, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Lehrstuhl für Soziologie II), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ein Sohn möchte seinen Eltern zu...

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: 2,0, VU University Amsterdam , language: English, abstract: This work focuses on the relationship between national culture and corruption...

This Brief fills a gap in criminological literature, as there are few empirically-based studies on delinquency of adolescent girls. It provides results of a longitudinal study, The Pittsburgh Girls Study (PGS), which includes 2,451 girls, followed...

This book provides the "how to's" of police patrol, focusing on how officers on the front line perform their duties (covering both skills and techniques), meet day-to-day challenges, and manage the tasks and risks associated with modern police patrol...

High levels of police corruption have been a persistent historical tendency in police services throughout the world. While the general area of concern in this book is with police corruption and anti-corruption, the focus is on certain key philosophical...

This Brief examines criminal careers by providing the most extensive and comprehensive investigation to date on the official offending, self-reported offending, and trajectories of offending of the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) participants.  The PYS...

Sex work continues to provoke controversial legal and public policy debates world-wide that raise fundamental questions about the state's role in protecting individual rights, status quo social relations, and public health. This book unites ethnographic...

This Brief is based on a research study of aging adults' perceptions and fear of crime in their community of Ferguson, Missouri. The study, which was conducted by coincidence just prior to the death of Michael Brown, presents unique insights into the...

This timely volume explores the "dark side" of United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping in Africa: when rather than help establish a rule of law in the host country, they become perpetrators of crime. The work of the UN peacekeepers is generally comprised of...

This book enumerates the unique challenges, barriers, needs, and trauma of being an African American in the United States, and at the same time highlights what needs to be done to improve and foster the mental health healing of this population. This...

This textbook addresses existing gaps in police research, education, and training, and provides guidance on how to respond to and address the vulnerability that arises in policing practice. It guides students through the conceptual and also the practical...

Adopting a practical perspective, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Directives adopted by the European Union concerning the rights of and safeguards for suspected and accused persons in criminal proceedings.It is the result of a...

This book explores the development of the discipline of Criminology on the island of Ireland, through conversations with leading criminologists. Adding depth and breadth to the understandings of this growing discipline, leading scholars discuss their...

This book provides hands-on guidance for researchers and practitioners in criminal justice and criminology to perform statistical analyses and data visualization in the free and open-source software R. It offers a step-by-step guide for beginners to...

In response to misconceptions and sub-optimal assessment of situational interaction in the criminological literature, this volume is a comprehensive resource for researchers of person-environment interaction in human behavioural outcomes, with a focus on...

This book provides a complex, socio-anthropological analysis of organized crime operating in the Vietnamese diaspora in the Czech Republic, and its international implications. Currently, there are about four million people of Vietnamese descent living in...

This book explores the dramatic evolution of a feminist movement that mobilised to challenge a women's prison system in crisis. Through in-depth historical research conducted in the Australian state of Victoria that spans the 1980s and 1990s, the authors...

This book investigates the contested phenomena of Islamophobia, exploring the dichotomous relationship that exists between Islamophobia as a political concept and Islamophobia as a 'real' and tangible discriminatory phenomenon. In doing so, this book...

This book offers unparalleled insight into the ways in which hate crime affects individuals and communities across the world. Drawing from the testimonies of more than 2,000 victims of hate crime, the book identifies the physical, emotional and...

Clinical and Psychological Perspectives on Foul Play examines a wide range of factors that can influence how police determine foul play in possible homicide cases and in other possible crimes. It develops a new theory of uncertainty at micro,...

What makes a woman's body beautiful? Plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery and non-surgical interventions such as Botox are changing women's bodies physically and affecting cultural notions and expectations of what it means to be a woman. Yet where does the...

This book brings together international research from scholars and activists on the forms of violence that older women experience into a unique, comprehensive two-volume set. This first volume consolidates the research on the forms, causes and extent of...

This book brings together international research from scholars and activists on the forms of violence that older women experience into a unique, comprehensive two-volume set. This volume is concerned with understanding the consequences and impacts of...

This book offers rich ethnographic and narrative accounts of men who have been engaged in serious violence and organised crime in the West Midlands of England, using several theoretical paradigms.  Through case study examples, it also considers...

This book highlights and examines the level, reach and consequences of corruption in international criminal justice systems. The book argues that corruption in and of criminal justice is an international problem regardless of the jurisdiction and type of...