Crimes category: 7162 books
by David O. Friedrichs, Dawn Rothe
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
This book addresses immensely consequential crimes in the world today that, to date, have been almost wholly neglected by students of crime and criminal justice: crimes of globalization. This term refers to the hugely harmful consequences of the policies and practices of international financial institutions...
Crimes of the Powerful
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
As politicians and the media perpetuate the stereotype of the "common criminal," crimes committed by the powerful remain for the most part invisible, or are reframed as a "bad decision" or a "rare mistake." This is a topic that remains marginalized within the field of...
Sex Crimes
Patterns and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2008
A comprehensive survey of sex offenders and sexual offenses
This succinct and highly accessible text provides a comprehensive overview of a wide range of sexual behaviors and sex crimes, thoroughly addressing criminal actions from "nuisance" sex crimes, such as voyeurism and exhibitionism,...
Sex Crimes and Sex Offenders
Research and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Sex Crimes and Sex Offenders: Research and Realities provides an overview of social scientific theory and research on sex crimes and sex offenders. Most other books on the market are focused on a single issue—such as treatment, rape, pedophilia, theory, etc. This book is unique in that it covers...
Signal Crimes
Social Reactions to Crime, Disorder, and Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
How do individuals, communities, and institutions react to crime, disorder, and social control events? How do such incidents shape the contours of social order and the make-up of society? Why do some crimes and disorders matter more than others in influencing how we think, feel, and act about our...
Unchecked Corporate Power
Why the Crimes of Multinational Corporations Are Routinized Away and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Why are crimes of the suite punished more leniently than crimes of the street? When police killings of citizens go unpunished, political torture is sanctioned by the state, and the financial frauds of Wall Street traders remain unprosecuted, nothing succeeds with such regularity as the active failures...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Across the world, most people are well aware of ordinary criminal harms to person and property. Often committed by the powerless and poor, these individualized crimes are catalogued in the statistics collected annually by the FBI and by similar agencies in other developed nations. In contrast, the...
Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful
Marxism, Crime and Deviance
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Frank Pearce was the first scholar to use the term 'crimes of the powerful.' His ground-breaking book of the same name provided insightful critiques of liberal orthodox criminology, particularly in relation to labelling theory and symbolic interactionism, while making important contributions to Marxist...
by Steve Tombs, Dave Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Every year in the UK, hundreds of workers are killed just doing their jobs, thousands more die of illnesses caused by their work and tens of thousands suffer major injuries such as amputations, loss of sight, serious burns, and so on. Worldwide, two million people are killed by work each year. Yet...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The question of national responsibility for crimes against humanity became an urgent topic due to the charge of ethnic cleansing against the previous Yugoslav government. But that was not the first such urging of legal and moral responsibility for war crimes. While the Nazi German regime has been...
The Crime of All Crimes
Toward a Criminology of Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Cambodia. Rwanda. Armenia. Nazi Germany. History remembers these places as the sites of unspeakable crimes against humanity, and indisputably, of genocide. Yet, throughout the twentieth century, the world has seen many instances of violence committed by states against certain groups within their borders—from...
Sex Crimes
Transnational Problems and Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Sex crimes, such as rape, child sexual abuse, and intimate partner violence, are increasingly transnational in nature, introducing unique cross-border and cross-cultural challenges for police, the courts, and the law. Policy makers and practitioners are in need of a resource that explores the incidence,...
Hate Crime Statutes
A Public Policy and Law Enforcement Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
This Brief provides a clearly outlined and accessible overview of the challenges in creating and enforcing hate crime legislation in the United States. As the author explains, while it is generally not controversial that hate crime behavior should be stopped, the question of how...
Cold Cases True Crime: 10 True Crime Stories Of Monsters And Serial Killers: Chilling Cold Cases True Crime Accounts
Cold Cases True Crime, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
The world is full of mysteries. Despite the fact that people are living in a high-tech world, with many advances in science and technology, there are still many unsolved and unexplained crimes that occur over the centuries.
It’s quite sad and truly horrible to know that there are people who...