Crime and criminology Books

This innovative book investigates the paradoxical situation whereby organized crime groups, authoritarian in nature and anti-democratic in practice, perform at their best in democratic countries. It uses examples from the United States, Japan, Russia,...

Expert testimony relying on scientific and other specialized evidence has come under increased scrutiny by the legal system. A trilogy of recent U.S. Supreme Court cases has assigned judges the task of assessing the relevance...

An authoritative survey of intelligent fingerprint-recognition concepts, technology, and systems is given. Editors and contributors are the leading researchers and applied R&D developers of this personal identification...

expands traditional inquiry regarding the significance of psychopathology in the criminal process to include blameworthiness for sentencing, criminal competence at various stages in the process, and dangerousnesspairs legal analysis with empirical...

Insider trading. Savings and loan scandals. Enron. Corporate crimes were once thought of as victimless offenses, but now-with billions of dollars and an increasingly global economy at stake-this is understood to be far from...

The book will synthesize and integrate better what are often disparate ideas, themes, and methods across substantive areas of white-collar crime and criminology and criminal justice. The book also puts together critical and...

Taking the shifting global drug policy terrain as a starting point, this collection moves beyond debates about whether to reform drug policies to a focus on delivering 'drug policy justice'.

Psychological Criminology explores what is it about individuals and their experiences that cause them to commit crime and/or to become criminal..

This book compiles the work of leading researchers to provide a broad overview of criminal justice issues that Indigenous people in Canada have faced historically and continue to face today. It is essential reading for those interested in the struggles...

Like its predecessors, Criminal Behavior Systems: A Revised Edition will be essential to criminologists formulating their own theories and research on criminal behavior as well as to students in criminology and sociology courses on how to view...

Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Drug Problems, Drug Policies; D.Whynes - DRUG USE AND THE BRITISH SYSTEM - The Consequences of Illegal Drug Use; C.Fazey - The Junkies' Doctors and the London Drug Scene in the 1960s: some remembered fragments; K...

Preface - List of Contributors - Introduction; The Editors - PART 1: POLICING DRUGS AT LOCAL LEVEL - Copenhagen: a War on Socially Marginal People; J.Jepsen - London: 'Community Damage Limitation' through Policing; M.Lee - Hamburg: Handling an Open Drug...

The Need for Reform: Bail, Pretrial Release, and Detention: The Critical Need for Judicial Reform. The Development and Implementation of Voluntary Guidelines in Criminal Justice. Evidence about Guidelines. The Pretrial Systems in Three Urban Courts:...

China's infamous death penalty record is the product of firm Party-state control and policy-setting. Though during the 1980s and 1990s, the Party's emphasis was on "kill many," in the 2000s the direction of policy began to move toward "kill fewer." The...

Vandalism and Anti-Social Behaviour forwards a new typology of vandalism. The authors argue that in order to fully understand vandalism and anti-social behaviour, a culturally criminological perspective should be fostered, which accounts for the...

Taking the notion of transgression - the breaking of boundaries - as its starting point, this book brings a fresh approach to cultural criminology by exploring representations of the transgressive in fictive texts and ethnographic research. Chapters...

Preface Introduction The End of Respect? Anti-Social Behaviour: The Political Landscape Anti-Social Behaviour: The Historical Landscape Anti-Social Behaviour and Social Housing ASBOs in Practice ASBOs and the Targeting of Undesirable Persons Reflections...

Police personnel have increasingly been deployed outside their own domestic jurisdictions to uphold law and order and to help rebuild states. This book explores the phenomenon of a new international policing and outlines the range of challenges and...

This book examines the nature of protest and the way in which the police and state respond to the activities associated with this term. Protest is explored within the context of the perceived decline in public engagement with recent general election...

Utilising sources that range from 16th century parish registers to the 21st century supermarket loyalty card, this collection examines the history and development of identification documents and surveillance techniques over the past 500 years. Combining...

This book provides a comprehensive study of the neglected story of the involvement of the women's movement with criminal justice policy in the 20th century. Taking the topic from the suffragette era to the early days of second-wave feminism, the book...

Based on original research with self-identified paedophiles in the community, this book challenges assumptions and destroys the sacred cows of both radical and conservative thinking on paedophilia and sexuality. Offering a humane and inspiring vision,...

This book examines race, ethnicity, crime and criminal justice in the Americas and moves beyond the traditional focus on North America to incorporate societies in Central America, South America and the Caribbean.

The behavior and safety of children and young people in and around schools is a topic of world-wide concern. From school shootings and deaths on school premises to the everyday behavior of young people in school, this book explores what is happening in...

List of Figures Introduction Technology Empire Alien Criminality White Slavery Anarchist Outrages The Criminologists Index

One of the dark sides to democratization can be crime and corruption. This book looks at the way political liberalization affects these practices in a number of ways whilst also challenging some of the scare stories about democracy. The book also brings...

Japan is often described as an inclusive society, and yet the media reports record highs in crime and suicide figures. This book examines criminal justice in Japan, and questions whether Japan really is facing social malaise, or if the media are simply...

Foreword by Professor Michael Tonry Preface PART I: HISTORY History: Race Relations and Justice; A.Kalunta-Crumpton PART II: EUROPE: IS THERE RACE IN CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE? Britain; B.A.Cole France; P.Irving Jackson Germany; H-J.Albrecht Italy; ...

Introduction New Moralities for International Criminal Justice A Framework for Trial Transformation Activating Victim Constituency in International Criminal Justice Truth and Responsibility v Fact and Liability Transformed Process Through Enhanced...

List of figures and tables Acknowledgements Introduction The Sociology of Drug Use A Social Classification of Drug Use The Folk Devil Next Door Lifestyle, Consumption and Subterranean Play Just a Phase? Drug Use and Social Change Bibliography

A History of the Board of Directors of La Cosa NostraAndy Petepiece The Mafia Commission is a well researched book on the nearly 100 year history of the Mafia's Board of Directors. It begins with the era before the formation of the Commission in...

Armed and Considered Dangerous is a book about "bad guys" and their guns. But Wright and Rossi contend that for every suspected criminal who owns and abuses a firearm, a hundred or more average citizens own guns for sport, for recreation, for...

The author, who is involved in evaluating Chicago's gang reduction and intervention programs, provides a systematic analysis of youth gangs in the United States and examines the factors of gang member personality, gang dynamics, criminal organization,...

Faced with a two-year federal prison sentence far away from her home and family, Collin Ruiz took her Buddhist vows and dedicated her years of incarceration to developing her Buddhist practice. A women's federal prison became her monastery. Everyone...

Step into the enigmatic world of Charles Manson, a man who forever altered the course of history as an American cult leader and criminal mastermind. In this gripping account, follow the life of Manson from his troubled childhood to the formation of the...

In August, 2023, Lucy Letby was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order, the most severe sentence possible under English law. Only three other female criminals had ever received a whole life order - Myra Hindley, Rose West, and Joanna...

Viele Menschen sind nicht "banal", sind nicht "ordinary people", sie sind Verbrecher. Viele latent, bis zur ersten Gelegenheit. Bleibt sie aus, werden diese Neigungen im Rahmen des Möglichen freigesetzt. Es sind psychopatische Vorgesetzte; wem auch immer...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Jura - Strafprozessrecht, Kriminologie, Strafvollzug, Note: 1,0, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Veranstaltung: Kriminalität in der globalisierten Welt, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Hier bin ich...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit / Sozialarbeit, Note: 1,3, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Anbetracht immer komplexer werdender gesellschaftlicher, sozialer und infolgedessen gestiegener...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht und Kriminalität, Note: 2,7, Fachhochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung Nordrhein-Westfalen; Duisburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wie Zeitungsberichte zeigen, ist Jugendkriminalität ein...