Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
by Anastasia Powell, Nicola Henry
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This book examines how digital communications technologies have transformed modern societies, with profound effects both for everyday life, and for everyday crimes. Sexual violence, which is recognized globally as a significant human rights problem, has likewise changed in the digital age. Through...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
This is the first accessible, succinct text to provide definitions and explanations of key terms and concepts relating to the expanding field of crime, harm and victimisation. Written by a wide range of experts, it includes theories, ideas and case studies relating to victims of conventional crime...
by Vania A Ceccato
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Crime is often perceived as an urban issue rather than a problem that occurs in rural areas, but how far is this view tenable? This book explores the relationship between crime and community in rural areas and addresses the notion of safety as part of the community dynamics in such areas.
Rural...
Criminal Recidivism
Explanation, prediction and prevention
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Criminal Recidivism intends to fill a gap in the criminological psychology literature by examining the processes underlying persistent criminal careers. This book aims to investigate criminal recidivism, and why, how and for how long an individual continues to commit crimes, whilst also reviewing...
The Torture of Children During Armed Conflicts
The ICC's Failure to Prosecute and the Negation of Children's Human Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This book examines selected legal complexities of the notion of torture and the issue of the proper foundation for legally characterizing certain acts as torture, especially when children are the targeted victims of torture. ICC case law is used to highlight the International Criminal Court’s reluctance...
The Innocence Commission
Preventing Wrongful Convictions and Restoring the Criminal Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Beyond Exonerating the Innocent: Author on WAMU Radio
Convicted Yet Innocent: The Legal Times Review
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008
DNA testing and advances in forensic science have shaken the foundations of the U.S. criminal justice system. One of the most visible results is the exoneration...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
49% of the world’s population lives in small towns, villages and farms, yet until recent years criminological scholarship has focused almost exclusively on urban crimes. The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Criminology is the first major publication to bring together this growing body of...
The Ardlamont Mystery
The Real-Life Story Behind the Creation of Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
The real-life mystery featuring the two men – Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn – who inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes. December 1893. Arthur Conan Doyle shocks his legions of fans by killing off the world’s favourite fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes. Meanwhile, in Scotland, a sensational...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Security challenges pose significant hardship for citizens of Caribbean nations. Public safety is threatened by high rates of crime – especially violent crime – in much of the region, the plague of the illicit drug trade, transnational organized crime, gangs, the current global proliferation...
Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century
Too Dirty, Too Little, Too Much
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century represents criminology’s first book-length contribution to the study of water and water-related crimes, harms and security. The chapters cover topics such as: water pollution, access to fresh water in the Global North and Global South, water...
Perceptions of Female Offenders
How Stereotypes and Social Norms Affect Criminal Justice Responses
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Female offenders are often perceived as victims who commit crimes as a self-defense mechanism or as criminal deviants whose actions strayed from typical ‘womanly’ behavior. Such cultural norms for violence exist in our gendered society and there has been scholarly debate about how male and...
by David Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
The search for Caylee made front-page headlines when news broke of two-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Orlando Florida in mid-July 2008.
Caylee's own mother, Casey Anthony stepped into the national spotlight after the suspicious disappearance of her daughter. As her...
by Mary N Stamper
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Howdy; I'm Nellie Cake and these are "Memoirs From My Outhouse." I write adult only true stories of violence, murders, beatings, crimes, 36 rapes, drugs, incest, alcoholism, inmates, stolen children, homelessness, narcissistic abuse, and nasty words. I have forty years of experience in these...
by Thomas P O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Explore the relationship between faith-based programs, religion, and offender rehabilitation!
This book reports on current research from several disciplines to help the reader understand the nature and impact of the relationship between faith-based programs, religion, and offender rehabilitation....