Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Deterrence, Choice, and Crime, Volume 23
Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Deterrence, Choice, and Crime explores the various dimensions of modern deterrence theory, relevant research, and practical applications. Beginning with the classical roots of deterrence theory in Cesare Beccaria’s profoundly important contributions to modern criminological thought, the book draws...
Building a Black Criminology, Volume 24
Race, Theory, and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
In light of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests in many cities, race plays an ever more salient role in crime and justice. Within theoretical criminology, however, race has oddly remained on the periphery. It is often introduced as a control variable in tests of theories and is rarely incorporated...
Voices from the Inside
Case Studies from a Tennessee Women's Prison
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Voices from the Inside takes readers into the cells of a maximum security prison to reveal the personal accounts of over sixty women that are incarcerated for drug crimes. The stories will shock and entertain, and will certainly help readers to see more than the statistics behind drug offenses. Research...
Diversion in Youth Justice
What Can We Learn from Historical and Contemporary Practices?
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Diversion in youth justice is a subject of enduring interest. It concerns the processes by which decisions are made about whether or not to prosecute young offenders, and this book explores the continuing debates and historical developments which shape these processes. The treatment of young offenders...
Criminal Justice and Mental Health
An Overview for Students
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
This textbook provides an overview for students in Criminology and Criminal Justice about the overlap between the criminal justice system and mental health. It provides an accessible overview of basic signs and symptoms of major mental illnesses and size of scope of justice-involved individuals with...
Murder and Politics in Mexico
Political Killings in the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica and its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Murder and Politics in Mexico studies the causes of political killings in Mexico’s liberalization-democratization within the larger context of political repression. Mexico’s democratization process has entailed a little known but highly significant cost of human lives in pre- and post-election...
by Derek Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Dark tourism has become widespread and diverse. It has passed into popular culture vernacular, deployed in guide books as a short hand descriptor for sites that are associated with death, suffering and trauma. However, whilst books have been devoted to dark tourism as a general topic no single text...
Contemporary Criminal Law
Concepts, Cases, and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
A book that students find interesting and instructors consider educationally valuable, this Fifth Edition of Contemporary Criminal Law combines traditional concepts with thought-provoking cases and engaging learning tools. Taking a casebook approach, the text covers both foundational and emerging...
Criminal Law and Precrime
Legal Studies in Canadian Punishment and Surveillance in Anticipation of Criminal Guilt
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
In Philip K. Dick’s short story Minority Report, the institution of Precrime punishes people with imprisonment for crimes they would have committed had they not been prevented. With Dick’s allegorical inspiration, the authors of Criminal Law and Precrime: Legal Studies in Canadian Punishment and...
After the Crime
The Power of Restorative Justice Dialogues between Victims and Violent Offenders
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Too often, the criminal justice system silences victims, which leaves them frustrated, angry, and with many unanswered questions. Despite their rage and pain, many victims want the opportunity to confront their offenders and find resolution. After the Crime explores a victim-offender dialogue program...
Criminology Theory
Selected Classic Readings
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This highly acclaimed criminology text presents an up-to-date review of rational choice theories, including deterrence, shaming, and routine activities. It also incorporates current examples of deterrence research regarding domestic violence, drunk driving, and capital punishment, and features thought-provoking...
Unsafe in the Ivory Tower
The Sexual Victimization of College Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
An unprecedented look at college women's risks of and experiences with sexual victimization
Unsafe in the Ivory Tower examines the nature and dimensions of a salient social problem—the sexual victimization of female college students today, and how women respond when they are, in fact, sexually...
Oil, Gas, and Crime
The Dark Side of the Boomtown
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2017
This book addresses the causes of rising crime rates resulting from the rapid population growth and industrialization associated with natural resource extraction in rural communities. Ruddell describes the social problems emerging in these boomtowns, including increases in antisocial behavior, as...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Theories and practices of justice do not meet the socio-political challenges of our times. For those theorists attempting to develop an alternative to the criminal justice system, restorative justice has provided an alternative horizon. The restorative justice approach involves meeting people, understanding...