Criminology category: 4273 books
Defining Street Gangs in the 21st Century
Fluid, Mobile, and Transnational Networks
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
In contrast to the pattern of long-standing occidental street gangs modelled in the North American paradigm, new-age gangs have appeared as loosely organized, with a high degree of interchangeability of their membership. Associated with this structural fluidity is an equally significant geographic...
Taking Care of Business
Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Taking Care of Business: Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation offers a rich and insightful empirical study of drug investigations, based on extensive fieldwork undertaken with the specialist detective units of two English police services. It fills a significant gap in...
The Politics of Policing
Between Force and Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance edited by Mathieu Deflem addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order. The book brings...
Policing and Media
Public Relations, Simulations and Communications
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This book examines the relationship between police, media and the public and analyses the shifting techniques and technologies through which they communicate. In a critical discussion of contemporary and emerging modes of mediatized police work, Lee and McGovern demonstrate how the police engage with...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Is the internet really powerful enough to allow a sixteen year old to become the biggest threat to world peace since Adolf Hitler? Are we all now susceptible to cyber-criminals who can steal from us without even having to leave the comfort of their own armchairs? These are fears which have been articulated...
Technocrime
Technology, Crime and Social Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book is concerned with the concept of 'technocrime'. The term encompasses crimes committed on or with computers - the standard definition of cybercrime - but it goes well beyond this to convey the idea that technology enables an entirely new way of committing, combating and thinking about criminality,...
Sex Trafficking and Modern Slavery
The Absence of Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
The second volume of Sex Trafficking: International context and response
Human trafficking and modern slavery have captured the imagination and attention of the international community. This book builds on the authors’ first volume, Sex Trafficking: International context and response. Much...
by Tim Goddard, Randy Myers
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Activists, policymakers, and scholars in the US have called for policy reform and evidence-based efforts to decrease the number of people in jail and prison, improve hostile police–community relations, and rollback the "tough on crime" movement. Given that poor people, particularly poor...
Drug Abuse and Antisocial Behavior
A Biosocial Life Course Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This book is rooted in the conviction that human biology plays a critical role in understanding drug abuse and antisocial behavior. In the same breath, however, it fundamentally affirms the importance of the many social and environmental factors that influence our behavior across the life course....
by Karen Bullock, Rosie Erol, Nick Tilley
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book makes an important contribution to the literature on problem-oriented policing, aiming to distill the British experience of problem-oriented policing. Drawing upon over 500 entries to the Tilley Award since its inception in 1999, the book examines what can be achieved by problem-oriented...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Crime science is precisely what it says it is: the application of science to the phenomenon of crime. This handbook, intended as a crime science manifesto, showcases the scope of the crime science field and provides the reader with an understanding of the assumptions, aspirations and methods of crime...
by Andromachi Tseloni, Rebecca Thompson, Nick Tilley
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Domestic burglary has fallen significantly over the past 20 years in many countries, but still remains a high volume crime. On top of substantial financial loss and property damage, burglary also leads to high levels of anxiety and fear of crime. The research presented in this book represents the...
by Barry Vaughan, Shane Kilcommins
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The rule of law is becoming a victim of the struggle against terrorism. Many countries are reviewing their security procedures and questioning whether due process rights hinder them in the war on terror. There is increasing emphasis on preventive detention or strategies of disablement that cut into...
Emotions, Decision-Making and Mass Atrocities
Through the Lens of the Macro-Micro Integrated Theoretical Model
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
This book rehumanizes perpetrators of mass atrocities. At present a victim/perpetrator dichotomy appears to be the dominant paradigm: perpetrators have either been ’mechanistically dehumanized’, that is, perceived as unemotional, hard-hearted and conforming and thereby lacking the core features...