Criminology category: 4273 books
Hate Crime Statutes
A Public Policy and Law Enforcement Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
This Brief provides a clearly outlined and accessible overview of the challenges in creating and enforcing hate crime legislation in the United States. As the author explains, while it is generally not controversial that hate crime behavior should be stopped, the question of how...
by Derek Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Dark tourism has become widespread and diverse. It has passed into popular culture vernacular, deployed in guide books as a short hand descriptor for sites that are associated with death, suffering and trauma. However, whilst books have been devoted to dark tourism as a general topic no single text...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
For centuries, criminologists have looked for scientific ways to study, understand, and ultimately prevent crime. In this volume, a unique offense, poaching, is explored in various contexts to determine what opportunity structures favor this crime and how situational crime prevention may reduce its...
Psychological Violence in the Workplace
New perspectives and shifting frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Violence is defined by the World Health Organisation as the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, or psychological harm. But while physical violence is seen as unacceptable, why is psychological...
Execution by Family
A Theory of Honor Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Across many parts of the world, violence inflicted in the name of family honor is attracting an increasing amount of attention. Family honor violence, otherwise known as honor-based violence, is physical force inflicted primarily on women for conduct defined as dishonorable. This book explores these...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
The last twenty years have seen an explosion in the development of information technology, to the point that people spend a major portion of waking life in online spaces. While there are enormous benefits associated with this technology, there are also risks that can affect the most vulnerable in...
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Truly international in scope, this Handbook focuses on approaches to discipline, surveillance and social control from around the world, critically examining the strategies and practices schools employ to monitor students and control their behavior. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of...
Women and Gendered Violence in Canada
An Intersectional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Violence against women is usually framed as an issue of interpersonal violence perpetuated by men. While domestic violence and sexual assault are significant social problems, such a narrow framing obscures the diversity of women’s experience, fails to illuminate the role social structures play,...
Sport in Prison
Exploring the Role of Physical Activity in Correctional Settings
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Although prison can present a critical opportunity to engage with offenders through interventions and programming, reoffending rates among those released from prison remain stubbornly high. Sport can be a means through which to engage with even the most challenging and complex individuals caught up...
Unsafe in the Ivory Tower
The Sexual Victimization of College Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
An unprecedented look at college women's risks of and experiences with sexual victimization
Unsafe in the Ivory Tower examines the nature and dimensions of a salient social problem—the sexual victimization of female college students today, and how women respond when they are, in fact, sexually...
Youth Gangs in International Perspective
Results from the Eurogang Program of Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
As a steady source of juvenile delinquents and an incubator for future adult offenders, the youth gang has long been a focus of attention, from their origins and prevalence to intervention and prevention strategies. But while delinquent youth form gangs worldwide, youth gang research has generally...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Current estimates indicate that approximately 2.2 million people are incarcerated in federal, state, and local correctional facilities across the United States. There are another 5 million under community correctional supervision. Many of these individuals fall into the classification of special...
Theories of Delinquency
An Examination of Explanations of Delinquent Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Theories of Delinquency is a comprehensive survey of the theoretical approaches towards understanding delinquent behavior. Donald Shoemaker aptly presents all major individualistic and sociological theories in a standard format with basic assumptions, important concepts, and critical evaluations....
Adventures in Criminal Justice Research
Data Analysis Using SPSS 15.0 and 16.0 for Windows
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2008
The only book of its kind, this text guides students through the process of conducting criminological data analysis. Used primarily in lab settings, the Fourth Edition of Adventures in Criminal Justice Research, derived from the popular Adventures in Social Research (Babbie et al, Pine Forge Press/SAGE),...