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Criminology: The Key Concepts

by Martin O'Brien, Majid Yar
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008

Criminology: The Key Concepts is an authoritative and comprehensive study guide and reference resource that will take you through all the concepts, approaches, issues and institutions central to the study of crime in contemporary society. Topics covered in this easy to use A-Z guide include: policing,...

Dealing with Illegal Immigration and the Opioid Crisis

by Paul Brakke
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018

Dealing with Crime by Illegal Immigrants and the Opioid Crisis is based on a blog series I wrote for the website of my company American Leadership Books (www.americanleadershipbooks.com). The book features chapters on these topics: - how illegal immigrants really do commit...

Burglary

by Rob Mawby
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

Burglary has all the credentials as the 'folk crime of the new millennium', and is regularly identified as one of the crimes most feared by the public. Victims are particularly affected by burglary, and burglary is generally at the centre of crime prevention and community safety strategies. This book...

Balancing Juvenile Justice

by Susan Guarino-Ghezzi
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017

The juvenile justice system in the United States has become a detrimental rather than a remedial experience, one that often reinforces youths' defiance of authority. Trying juveniles as adults, overcrowding juvenile detention facilities, and other factors have led to the deterioration of a system...

Organized Crime, Corruption and Crime Prevention

Essays in Honor of Ernesto U. Savona

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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013

This volume collects new contributions to research on mafias, organized crime, money laundering, and other forms of complex crimes, gathering some of the most authoritative and well-known scholars in the field. The chapters for this volume are original peices written in honor of the retirement...

The True Stories Of The Monster Of Florence

by Jacopo Pezzan, Giacomo Brunoro
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 1, 2011

«The True Stories of The Monster Of Florence is a must read guaranteed to give newbies a clear and complete understanding of the Monster's murders and of the various investigative theories. The book could also be a great reference for “experts” who believe they know everything on the subject,...

Market Criminology

State-Corporate Crime in the Petroleum Extraction Industry

by Ifeanyi Ezeonu
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018

Building on original research into the petroleum industry and on the theory of crimes of globalization, this book introduces the concept of Market Criminology: the criminology of preventable market-generated harms and the criminogenic effects of market rationality in variegated forms of capitalism. Ifeanyi...

Crime in the Digital Age

Controlling Telecommunications and Cyberspace Illegalities

by Russell Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018

Willie Sutton, a notorious American bank robber of fifty years ago, was once asked why he persisted in robbing banks. "Because that's where the money is," he is said to have replied. The theory that crime follows opportunity has become established wisdom in criminology; opportunity reduction...

Hazardous Waste and Pollution

Detecting and Preventing Green Crimes

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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015

This volume examines crimes that violate environmental regulations, as part of an emerging area of criminology known as green criminology. The contributions to this book examine criminal justice concerns related to regulating and enforcing environmental laws, as well as the consequences for families...

An Introduction to Green Criminology and Environmental Justice

by Dr. Angus Nurse
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015

A comprehensive introduction to green criminology, this book is a discussion of the relationship between mainstream criminal justice and green crimes. Focused on environmental harm within the context of criminal justice this book takes a global perspective and Introduces students to different...

Open Files

A Narrative Encyclopedia of the World's Greatest Unsolved Crimes

by Jay Robert Nash
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1983

Here is a fascinating compendium of unsolved crimes—from murder to robbery, arson to forgery—presenting the most baffling cases on record, starting with the murder of Lord Darnely, Mary, Queen of Scots' husband in 1566 and ending in the 1980s. The hundreds of entries, arranged alphabetically,...

Modernisation of the Criminal Justice Chain and the Judicial System

New Insights on Trust, Cooperation and Human Capital

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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015

This book focuses on one part of the judicial system: the criminal justice chain. This involves all the activities and actors dealing with policing, prosecution, judgment, and sanctioning of crimes. In the last decades, reforms have been implemented in several European countries. In Belgium, for example,...

Emotions, Decision-Making and Mass Atrocities

Through the Lens of the Macro-Micro Integrated Theoretical Model

by Olaoluwa Olusanya
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...

Psychosocial Criminology

by Tony Jefferson, David Gadd
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007

'This is a well written, thought provoking, and highly challenging book for anyone who claims to be a criminologist or for whom crime is of central concern. It should be required reading on all undergraduate and post-graduate criminology courses. A truly innovative take on some well established criminological...