Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
by Serguei Cheloukhine, M.R. Haberfeld
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Countries undergoing major social and legal transitions typically experience a light, but relatively insignificant, increase in crime. However, in the past decade, many transitional countries in Eastern Europe, and Russia in particular, have experienced a surge in criminal activities that came about...
The Female Offender
Girls, Women, and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Scholarship in criminology over the last few decades has often left little room for research and theory on how female offenders are perceived and handled in the criminal justice system. In truth, one out of every four juveniles arrested is female and the population of women in prison has tripled in...
by Phillip Torsrud
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2008
If you want to know why our nation's leaders have failed to solve America's crime problem, these essays expose a number of areas where either not enough thought is being given, or the thinking is just wrong. While crime dominates America's media and political scene, there is very little intelligent...
Dictionary of Crime
Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Law Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1992
In order to understand the machinations and inner workings of crime and punishment in this country, it is necessary to negotiate through the wild linguistic labyrinth of its esoteric terminology and pungent slang. Here is Jay Robert Nash's comprehensive Dictionary of Crime: Criminal Justice, Criminology,...
Killers in the Family
Inside a Real Family of Criminals Bound by Blood
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Everyone in the neighborhood thought the Reese family was no good, but it would be twenty-six years before they really learned how bad they were…
In July 2008, there were a rash of murders in Indianapolis, three of which occurred during robberies committed by Brian Reese. It turned out he...
Lethal Injection
Capital Punishment in Texas during the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Few state issues have attracted as much controversy and national attention as the application of the death penalty in Texas. In the years since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, Texas has led the nation in passing death sentences and executing prisoners. The vigor with which Texas has implemented...
by Paul Brakke, Gini Graham Scott, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
A primary or secondary text for criminal justice, criminology, constitutional law, and related social science and legal studies, this book is for those who believe they know all they need to know about the criminal justice system — the system that keeps us safe from criminals; the system that protects...
Close Control: Managing a Maximum Security Prison
The Story of Ragen's Stateville Penitentiary
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Topics include: Chicago's Criminals, Politicians, and Joseph Ragen's Career; Controlling Time and Space in a Prison; Stateville's Daily Schedule In Detail; Control of the Guards; Control of Inmates; Beatings and Violence; The Inmate Economy. and much more.
Cutting the Edge
Current Perspectives in Radical/critical Criminology and Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Understanding crime, criminals, and criminal justice from a radical/critical perspective is indispensable in today's academic, applied research, and policy sectors. Neglect of this approach leads to narrow-mindedness and the probability of repeating past mistakes or reinventing the wheel. Cutting...
Offenders on Offending
Learning about Crime from Criminals
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Our knowledge of crime is based on three types of sources: the criminal justice system, victims, and offenders. For technological and other reasons the criminal justice system produces an increasing stream of information on crime. The rise of the victimization survey has given the victims a much larger...
Constructing Crime
Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and 'Deviance'
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Crime and criminals are a pervasive theme in all areas of our culture, including media, journalism, film and literature. This book explores how crime is constructed and culturally represented through a range of areas including Spanish, English Language and Literature, Music, Criminology, Gender, Law, Cultural and Criminal Justice Studies.
Transforming Criminal Justice?
Problem-Solving and Court Specialisation
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Why is punishment not more effective? Why do we have such high re-offending rates? How can we deal with crime and criminals in a more cost-effective way? Over the last decade in particular, the United Kingdom, in common with other jurisdictions such as Canada, the United States (US) and Australia,...
Locked Out
Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
5.4 million Americans--1 in every 40 voting age adults-- are denied the right to participate in democratic elections because of a past or current felony conviction. In several American states, 1 in 4 black men cannot vote due to a felony conviction. In a country that prides itself on universal suffrage,...
Criminological Theory
An Analysis of its Underlying Assumptions
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
Criminological Theory is an examination of the major theoretical perspectives in criminology today. Werner J. Einstadter and Stuart Henry lay bare various theorists' ideas about human nature, social structure, social order, concepts of law, crime and criminals, the logic of crime causation, and the...