Crimes category: 7162 books
Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives
Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This book examines diverse literary writings in Bangla related to crime in late nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Bengal, with a timely focus on gender. It analyses crime-centred fiction and non-fiction in the region to see how actual or imagined crimes related to women were shaped and...
Transnational Organised Crime
Perspectives on Global Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
The perceived threat of 'transnational organized crime' to Western societies has been of huge interest to politicians, policy makers and social scientists over the last decade. This book considers the origins of this crime, how it has been defined and measured and the appropriateness of governments'...
Sexual Offender Treatment
Biopsychosocial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Gain a better understanding of the biological, psychological, and social aspects of sex offenders, their crimes, and the treatments that can help them
The treatment of sexual offenders varies from culture to culture and nation to nation. Sexual Offender Treatment: Biopsychosocial Perspectives...
Forced Marriage and 'Honour' Killings in Britain
Private Lives, Community Crimes and Public Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book explores the contemporary phenomenon of forced marriage and 'honour' killings in Britain. Set against a background of increasing 'honour'-based violence within the country's South Asian and Muslim Diasporas, the book traces the development of the 'honour' question over the past two decades....
Islamophobia in Cyberspace
Hate Crimes Go Viral
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Cyber hate can take many different forms from online material which can lead to actual offline abuse and violence, cyber violence; cyber stalking, and online harassment with the use of visual images, videos, chat rooms, text and social media which are intended to cause harm.
This book examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Anyone living or working in a city has feared or experienced street crime at one time or another; whether it be a mugging, purse snatching, or a more violent crime. In the U.S., street crime has recently hovered near historic lows; hence, the declaration of certain analysts that street life in America...
Rough Justice
How he worst criminals paid for their crimes.
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Harold Shipman, the worst know serial killer in British history, was determined to die. He tied a homemade noose around this throat and threw himself against his cell’s window in a desperate attempt to knock himself out. After several attempts Shipman succeeded and slowly asphyxiated while his leg...
Sex Crime
Sex offending and society
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Sex Crime, Third edition offers a comprehensive and integrative introduction to sex crime, written by an expert in the field. The third edition has been fully expanded and updated to include further coverage of a range of critical topics, including child sexual exploitation, child pornography, female...
The Other Side of Criminology
An Inversion of the Concept of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Didactically, a textbook of criminology should start at the beginning. The learning process, also an emotional process, begins in criminology with the concepts, views, emotions, attitudes and ideas we have regarding crime and criminals. Exploration of these underlying factors is one of the aims of...
American Murder Houses
A Coast-to-Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
There are places in the United States of America where violent acts of bloodshed have occurred. Years may pass—even centuries—but the mark of death remains. They are known as Murder Houses.
From a colonial manse in New England to a small-town home in Iowa to a Beverly Hills mansion, these...
Crime Script Analysis
Preventing Crimes Against Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This book positions script analysis as a useful and pragmatic tool, which can guide the selection and implementation of preventive measures in business environments. It illustrates how the concept aligns with the crime-specific orientation found in environmental criminology, and particularly explores...
Negotiated Justice and Corporate Crime
The Legitimacy of Civil Recovery Orders and Deferred Prosecution Agreements
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
This book argues that there is a strong normative argument for using the criminal law as a primary response to corporate crime. In practice, however, corporate crimes are rarely dealt with through criminal sanctioning mechanisms. Rather, the preference – for both prosecutors and corporates – appears...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Social network analysis finally reached a critical mass of scholars in the field of criminology. The proven track record of network theory and methods in fostering new advances in our understanding of crimes and criminals has extended the web of researchers willing to integrate this approach to their...
by Andy Short, Stacy Ramdhan, Nicole Simon
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Sociology - Law, Delinquency, Abnormal Behavior, grade: A, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine (-), language: English, abstract: Trinidad and Tobago illicit drug transhipping economy is premised upon the transhipping of cocaine...