Criminology category: 4273 books
Criminological Research
Understanding Qualitative Methods
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Good research starts with careful planning and a thorough understanding of the research process. The abilities to design a research study and to evaluate those conducted by others are core skills every student of criminology must learn.
With guidance from theoretical considerations through...
Human Trafficking Finances
Evidence from Three European Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2019
This unique volume addresses the financial mechanisms that enable human trafficking - its actors, structures, and logistics. Viewing each stage of the market, human traffickers may need significant financial resources for recruitment, transportation, and exploitation.
Drawing upon cross-disciplinary...
by José Manuel Ferro Veiga
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 26, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 26, 2014
El libro trata áreas que desarrollan los conocimientos necesarios para el análisis
criminológico de las conductas violentas y no violentas individuales o colectivas,
el correcto procesamiento de los datos obtenidos en la investigación, todo ello en
aras...
Pathways in Crime
An Introduction to Behaviour Sequence Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
This book introduces a novel approach to analysing and mapping criminal behaviours. Every crime occurs as a chain of behaviours and events, from inception and preparation through to commission and exit from the crime scene. These pathways in crime are complex, dynamic sequences that are by their very...
Border Policing and Security Technologies
Mobility and Proliferation of Borders in the Western Balkans
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
This book is a unique and original examination of borders and bordering practices in the Western Balkans prior to, during, and after the migrant "crisis" of the 2010s. Based on extensive, mixed-method, exploratory research in Serbia, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, and Kosovo, the book charts technological...
Criminological Theory in Context
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
This book provides a lively, concise and definitive introduction to the study of the causes of crime. Authoritative yet accessible, it offers a guide to the historical development of criminology as an academic discipline and in doing so:
presents an overview of a range of different...
by Aaron Cicourel
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The Social Organization of Juvenile Justice recasts familiar sociological problems of research within a dramatically new and different theoretical and methodological perspective. In seeing law enforcement officers, no less than those accuse of criminal behavior, as locked into the creation of history,...
by Polizzi, David
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
It is well known that the social definition of individuals and ethnic groups helps legitimize how they are addressed by law enforcement. The philosophy of the social construction of crime and criminal behaviour reflects how individuals, such as police officers, construct meaning from the perspective...
Professionalizing the Police
The Unfulfilled Promise of Police Training
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
Professionalizing the Police is a timely reassessment of the development of British police training and its contribution to the furtherance of the police professionalism agenda. The police have long struggled with the concept of professionalism. The Victorians veered from regarding police as servants...
Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture
International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
This book explores the links between crime, deviance and popular culture in our highly-mediatised era, offering an insight into the cultural processes through which particular practices acquire a criminal or deviant status, and come to be seen as social problems. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach,...
by Ben Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
‘Stop and search’ is a form of police-citizen interaction that is confrontational, often stressful for those involved, and potentially damaging to the relationship between police and public. The extent to which police officers use their power to stop and perhaps search members of the public is...
Online Othering
Exploring Digital Violence and Discrimination on the Web
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
This book explores the discrimination encountered and propagated by individuals in online environments. The editors develop the concept of 'online othering' as a tool through which to analyse and make sense of the myriad toxic and harmful behaviours which are being created through, or perpetuated...
Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town
Ghetto Chameleons
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Cape Town has some of the highest figures of violent crime in the world, but how is it that young men avoid and enact physical aggression and navigate stressful and dangerous situations?
Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town offers an ethnographic study of young men in Cape Town...
by Katharina Bergmaier
Language: German
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Language: German
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht, Kriminalität abw. Verhalten, Note: 1, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Entgegen der zunehmenden Tendenz, Verbrechen und Verbrechergruppen zu untergliedern und zu spezifizieren, was mit der Annahme einhergeht,...