Criminology category: 4273 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
The second edition of the Handbook on Prisons provides a completely revised and updated collection of essays on a wide range of topics concerning prisons and imprisonment. Bringing together three of the leading prison scholars in the UK as editors, this new volume builds on the success of the first...
Online Gambling and Crime
Causes, Controls and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Offering the first empirically driven assessment of the development, marketisation, regulation and use of online gambling organisations and their products, this book explores the relationship between online gambling and crime. It draws upon quantitative and qualitative data, including textual and...
by James Banks
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
This book explores the manifold actual, possible and probable interconnections between gambling and crime in the context of the increased availability of wagering activities across many regions of the world. It examines the impact of the proliferation and propinquity of land-based betting establishments...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
We live in an era of mass mobility where governments remain committed to closing borders, engaging with securitisation discourses and restrictive immigration policies, which in turn nurture xenophobia and racism. It is within this wider context of social and political unrest that the contributors...
Reflexivity in Criminological Research
Experiences with the Powerful and the Powerless
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
This comprehensive collection contributes to, advances and consolidates discussions of the range of research methods in criminology through the presentation of diverse international case studies in which contributors reflect upon their experiences with powerless and powerful individuals or groups.
Investigating White-Collar Crime
Evaluation of Fraud Examinations
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This book examines internal fraud investigations in public and private organizations. It provides a theoretical framework of white-collar crime and convenience theory, to examine a number of case studies, including some cases brought to light by the Panama Papers.
Investigating white-collar...
Improving Anti-Money Laundering Compliance
Self-Protecting Theory and Money Laundering Reporting Officers
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
This book provides practical recommendations on how to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of AML compliance by introducing the theory, framework and approach for dealing with the concerns of Money Laundering Reporting Officers (MLROs) within the UK banking industry. Accordingly, Bello focusses...
by Kevin Walby, Randy K Lippert
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Corporate security is a form of regulation that involves centralized management of access control, physical security, personnel security, and information security inside an organization. For all the research on public policing, national security, and private contract security in sociology, criminology,...
Crime Script Analysis
Preventing Crimes Against Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This book positions script analysis as a useful and pragmatic tool, which can guide the selection and implementation of preventive measures in business environments. It illustrates how the concept aligns with the crime-specific orientation found in environmental criminology, and particularly explores...
Criminal Justice and Regulation Revisited
Essays in Honour of Peter Grabosky
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This volume brings together leading researchers to celebrate the significant contributions of Peter Grabosky to the field of Criminology, and in particular his work developing and adapting regulatory theory to the study of policing and security.
Over the past three decades, his path-breaking...
by Dave Cowan, Helen Carr, Alison Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This book uses a case study of a low-cost home ownership initiative at the margins of renting and owning provided by social landlords – known as shared ownership – to challenge everyday assumptions held about the ‘social’ and the ‘legal’ in property. The authors provide a study of the...
Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful
Marxism, Crime and Deviance
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Frank Pearce was the first scholar to use the term 'crimes of the powerful.' His ground-breaking book of the same name provided insightful critiques of liberal orthodox criminology, particularly in relation to labelling theory and symbolic interactionism, while making important contributions to Marxist...
Evidence-Based Practice in Juvenile Justice
Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Over the past 15 years, evidence-based practice in juvenile justice has moved from a concept to a full blown practice in a number of states. They have used research based principles and programs to: - completely reorganize their system for treating juveniles -reduce crime and recidivism -and saved...
Drugs in Society
Causes, Concepts, and Control
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts, and Control, Eighth Edition, focuses on the many critical areas of America's drug problem, providing a foundation for rational decision-making within this complex and multidisciplinary field. Lyman offers a comprehensive big-picture examination of the US drug problem,...