Criminology category: 4273 books
by Timothy Crowe, M.S., Criminology - Florida State University
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, 3e is a vital book for anyone involved in architectural design, space management, and urban planning. The concepts presented in this book explain the link between design and human behavior. Understanding this link can enable a planner to use natural environmental...
The Chinese Mafia
Organized Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Utilising individual interviews and focus group discussions, primarily from two Chinese cities, The Chinese Mafia: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection contributes to the understanding of organized crime and corruption in the Chinese context, filing a significant gap in criminological...
The Vigilant Eye
Policing Canada from 1867 to 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
In The Vigilant Eye, Greg Marquis combines the narrative and chronological approach of traditional institutional history with the critical approaches of social history, legal history and criminology. The book begins with the English and Irish roots of nineteenth-century British North American policing...
Policing
Development and Contemporary Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
This lively and comprehensive text combines an overview of the historical development of policing in the UK, with discussion of current debates and practice. It provides a global and comparative context, in order to shed light on contemporary issues.
The book equips students with an in-depth...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The police service in England and Wales is facing major challenges in its financing, political oversight and reorganisation of its structures. Current economic conditions have created a wholly new environment whereby cost saving is permitting hitherto unthinkable changes in the style and means of...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Crime, Justice and Society in Scotland is an edited collection of chapters from leading experts that builds and expands upon the success of the 2010 publication Criminal Justice in Scotland to offer a comprehensive and critical overview of Scottish criminal justice and its relation to wider social...
Police Work
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
This book provides a highly readable account of police work. It builds upon Introduction to Police Work (Rogers and Lewis 2007) to provide a comprehensive, in depth and critical understanding of policing in today's diverse society.
Police Work: Principles and Practice meets the need for an...
Probation and Politics
Academic Reflections from Former Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
This book is a collection of essays by a unique group of authors about the political destruction of the probation service in England and Wales. All of them are probation officers turned academics, with a collective scholarly output that is both prodigious and distinguished. They address the history...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The project of interpreting contemporary forms of punishment means exploring the social, political, economic, and historical conditions in the society in which those forms arise. The SAGE Handbook of Punishment and Society draws together this disparate and expansive field of punishment and society...
Humanitarian Rackets and their Moral Hazards
The Case of the Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon has become one of the most populist causes in the world, yet the causes of the crisis have been misrepresented, whilst on-going humanitarian assistance could arguably be said to amplify problems that exist in the camps. Shedding light...
Partner Violence
A New Paradigm for Understanding Conflict Escalation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
As domestic violence continues to be a focus of social and psychological concern, two basic contradictory viewpoints endure: one rooted in male power dynamics, the other maintaining that both genders use and are victimized by violence. Although both sides have their merits, neither has adequately...
by Greg Berman
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
A new collection of compelling and challenging essays from one of the nation's leading voices on criminal justice reform, 'Reducing Crime, Reducing Incarceration' makes the argument that sometimes small changes on the ground can add up to big improvements in the criminal justice system.
How...
Deadly Injustice
Trayvon Martin, Race, and the Criminal Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin and the subsequent trial and acquittal of his assailant, George Zimmerman, sparked a passionate national debate about race and criminal justice in America that involved everyone from bloggers to mayoral candidates to President Obama himself. With increased...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
This book brings together a collection of essays by leading criminologists to explore the relationship between the private sector and criminal justice. The private sector has become an increasingly important ‘partner’ in contemporary criminal justice with the unprecedented growth of public sector...