Criminology category: 4273 books
Fraud and Corruption
Major Types, Prevention, and Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
This textbook provides an overview of the major types of fraud and corrupt activities found in private and public agencies, as well as the various methods used to prevent fraud and corruption. It explores where opportunities for fraud exist, the personal characteristics of those who engage in fraud,...
by Mark J. Findlay, Ralph Henham
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
This book sets out an agenda to transform international criminal trials and the delivery of international criminal justice to victim communities through collaboration of currently competing paradigms. It reflects a transformation of thinking about the comparative analysis of the trial process, and...
Problem Behavior Theory and the Social Context
The Collected Works of Richard Jessor, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
This third and final volume of Richard Jessor’s collected works explores the central role of the social context in the formulation and application of Problem Behavior Theory. It discusses the effect of the social environment, especially the social context of disadvantage and limited opportunity,...
Synergy of Community Policing and Technology
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
This brief examines the interaction and synergy between the philosophical concepts embedded in the ideas of Community Oriented Policing (C.O. P.) and urban security aided by technological innovations. While the philosophy of C.O.P. stresses the importance of collaboration between members of the public...
by Michael Gottfredson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
For the past twenty to thirty years, control theories of crime have been at the center of theoretical development in criminology. Key to the control theory perspective is the notion that crime is an inherently individual act, and its explanation requires that we focus on the characteristics of individuals...
Global Organized Crime
Trends and Developments
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the current processes of political, economic and cultural changes serious cross-border forms of organized crime receive unprecedented attention as spectacular global media events, as 'threats' of all sorts, and as priority targets of criminal policy and political agendas. Most books on 'global...
by Alberto Testa, Anna Sergi
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Whilst corruption and organized crime have been widely researched, they have not yet been specifically linked to sport. Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer offers an original insight into this new research area. Adopting a psycho-social approach based mainly on Pierre Bourdieu's praxeology,...
by Iain Channing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Incidences of public disorder, and the manner in which they have been suppressed, have repeatedly ignited debate on the role of policing, the effectiveness of current legislation and the implications for human rights and civil liberties. These same issues have reverberated throughout British history,...
by Mark S. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
A new approach to making everyday criminal justice terms accessible
A useful reference work for faculty and students, criminal justice professionals, writers, and anyone else interested in criminal justice and criminology, The Concise Dictionary of Crime and Justice, Second Edition,...
The Myth of the ‘Crime Decline’
Exploring Change and Continuity in Crime and Harm
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
The Myth of the ‘Crime Decline’ seeks to critically interrogate the supposed statistical decline of crime rates, thought to have occurred in a number of predominantly Western countries over the past two decades. Whilst this trend of declining crime rates seems profound, serious questions need...
Money and the Governance of Punishment
A Genealogy of the Penal Fine
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Money is the most frequently means used in the legal system to punish and regulate. Monetary penalties outnumber all other sanctions delivered by criminal justice in many jurisdictions, imprisonment included. More people pay fines than go to prison and in some jurisdictions many of those in prison...
Transforming Summary Justice
Modernisation in the Lower Criminal Courts
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Sweeping changes are being introduced into the lower-tier magistrates’ courts in England and Wales in efforts to modernise the system and speed up case processing. They concentrate on delivering prompt justice within a modern, efficient and technologically advanced system. But these transformations...
School Shootings
International Research, Case Studies, and Concepts for Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
School shootings are a topic of research in a variety of different disciplines—from psychology, to sociology to criminology, pedagogy, and public health—each with their own set of theories. Many of these theories are logically interconnected, while some differ widely and seem incompatible with...
NATURAL MANHOOD
From Prison Towards Inner Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
"Natural Manhood explores how men, particularly those locked in our prisons, need a complete overhaul with new thinking and a recognition that if we do not seek the divine in all our lives, we are unlikely to resolve the issues we face in a rapidly changing world. What is needed is new thinking...