Crime and criminology Books

Full Title:Remarkable Trials of All Countries; Particularly of The United States, Great Britain, Ireland and France. With Notes and Speeches of CounselDescription: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides descriptions of the...

Le livre ""Histoire De La Medecine Legale"" (1880) de Charles Adrien Desmaze est une exploration compl�����te de l'histoire de la m�����decine l�����gale. L'auteur examine les origines de la m�����decine l�����gale, les d�����veloppements historiques...

Histoire Administrative Des Communes De France (1834) par Dupin, Claude Fran�����ois Etienne est un livre qui traite de l'histoire administrative des communes fran�����aises. L'auteur examine les origines et l'�����volution de l'administration communale...

Het boek ""Het Wetenschappelijk Standpunt Bij Het Beoordeelen Der Strafbaarheid Van Deelneming Aan Misdrijf (1870)"" geschreven door Jakob Gijsbert N. De Hoop Scheffer, gaat over de wetenschappelijke benadering van het beoordelen van de strafbaarheid van...

""Grundz�����ge der Criminal Psychologie"" ist ein Buch von Johann Christian August Heinroth, das erstmals im Jahr 1833 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Werk besch�����ftigt sich mit der Psychologie von Verbrechen und Straft�����tern. Heinroth untersucht...

How is social media changing contemporary understandings of crime and injustice, and what contribution can it make to justice-seeking? Abuse on social media often involves betrayals of trust and invasions of privacy that range from the public circulation...

Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice provides a cross-national, sociohistorical investigation of the legacy of racial discrimination, which informs contemporary youth justice practice in Canada and England. The book links...

Life is characterised by movement, change and development, including transitions, losses and grief. People experiencing loss must learn to accommodate it and, sometimes, relearn new roles. Whether the offender is accommodating general loss (such as...

Tracing the causes of elite deviance to the structure of U.S. power and wealth, this book introduces students to theories of elite deviance and covers both criminal and non-criminal elite acts that cause significant harm. This considerably updated, 11th...

This ground-breaking study examines the social and psychological factors that contribute to female delinquency in New York State. The author draws on extensive interviews to explore the experiences of these women and the challenges they face in a...

With this book, Cheryl Hicks brings to light the voices and viewpoints of black working-class women, especially southern migrants, who were the subjects of urban and penal reform in early-twentieth-century New York. Hicks compares the ideals of racial...

What is it like for inmates when they get out of prison and return home? Dr. Lee Streetman interviewed inmates shortly before they were released from prison. He spoke with many of them again a few months later to find out how they were adjusting to life...

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume examines longitudinal research in relation to crime and delinquency, and brings together prominent scholars in criminology to discuss theory, methodology, and impact of longitudinal studies in criminology. It...

The trafficking of human beings is a major worldwide problem. This book addresses the need for a system that provides the same set of quantitative and qualitative data to help develop a comprehensive counter-strategy. It...

This book explores the issue of legitimate criminalization in a modern, liberal society. It argues that criminalization should be limited by normative principles, defining the substance of what can be legitimately proscribed...

This book invites the legal and psychology communities to work together in solving some of our most pressing social problems. It examines four controversial areas involving people's perceptions of others. The book is therefore...

List of Tables List of Figures Foreword by Michael Hough Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations The Partnership Enterprise The Local Context The Organization of Partnership Partnership and Conflict In-house Specialization Treatment Under Coercion The...

The New Politics of Youth Crime argues that the centrality of "law and order" to the New Labour project has generated a youth justice strategy that threatens to deepen the problems it purports to solve. Analyzing the profound changes in UK youth crime in...

This book ties the prohibitionist experiment to other totalitarian endeavours while tracing the Spirit of Freedom as it moves through the centuries. Arguing from a perspective of first principles, the author explains the psychology that connects morality...

Der Fall von Lizzie Borden ist einer der berühmtesten Doppelmorde in der amerikanischen Geschichte, der die Amerikaner auch heute noch beschäftigt. Am 4. August 1892 werden der schwerreiche Fabrikant Andrew Borden sowie seine zweite Frau Abby Borden mit...

Reflecting public outrage over massive corporate scandals, Congress quickly enacted comprehensive business reform measures known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). While the business community focused on SOX’s reporting and control requirements, often...

This book explores how the construction and contestation of victims in societies emerging from conflict impact processes of peacebuilding. It locates its inquiry in Northern Ireland where highly politicized, unresolved narratives of violence and a...

This book explores the role of self-medication in reflexive response to victimhood and victim recovery. Based on interviews, counsellor focus groups and a self-medication survey, it situates self-medication among the coping strategies that may be...

Drawing on data from 340 municipalities in the Netherlands as well as ethnographic fieldwork, this book presents original research on neighbourhood watch groups to illustrate how their actions contribute to collective efficacy and lower crime levels...

The crime drop is one of the most important puzzles in contemporary criminology: since the early-1990s many countries appear to exhibit a pronounced decline in crime rates. While there have been many studies on the topic, this book argues that the...

This book examines American solitary confinement - in which around 100,000 prisoners are held at any one time - and argues that under a moral reading of individual rights such punishment is not only a matter of public interest, but requires close...

This book analyzes New York City's stop-and-frisk data both pre- and post-constitutionality ruling, examining the existence of both profiling and unequal treatment among the three largest groups identified in the database: Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics...

This book uniquely combines a critical examination of the extent and diversity of transphobic hate crime together with a consideration of the victims and offenders. Trans people are marginalised in society and already negotiate complex physical and...

This book aims to bridge the gap between general CEO research, which is traditionally focused on positive aspects of leadership, and lesser understood research into CEO misconduct and crime. Gottschalk introduces convenience theory as an integrated...

This book offers a comparative perspective on data protection and cybersecurity in Europe. In light of the digital revolution and the implementation of social media applications and big data innovations, it analyzes threat perceptions regarding privacy...

Fanaticism, Racism, and Rage Online is a critical exploration of digital hate culture and its myriad infiltrations into the modern online community. The book examines radical movements that have emerged both on the fringes of the Internet, as well...

This text offers a novel contribution to the literature on core criminological theory by introducing the complex issues relating to the structuring and analysing of causation. This text traces the paradigm shift, or drift, that has occurred in the...

This book explores the gamer's dilemma, which lies at the heart of theorising about the morality of certain video game content. The dilemma is as follows: given that gaming content involves virtual characters within a virtual environment, the moral...

This book develops the idea that the Cosa Nostra Sicilian mafia likes and, more than any other criminal organization, follows the patterns of capitalist transformation. The author presents analysis of the mafia under post-fordism...

This book introduces 'convenience' as the key concept to explain financial crime by white-collar criminals. Based on a number of fraud examination- reports from the United States and Norway, the book documents empirical evidence of convenience among...

This book challenges the quasi-consensus that Latin American countries dominate global homicide rankings mainly due to the illegal nature of drug production and trafficking. Building on US scholarship that looks at the role of social exclusion and...