Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
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...
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...
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...
Criminal Investigation
A Method for Reconstructing the Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
A classic in the field, Criminal Investigation: A Method for Reconstructing the Past, Eighth Edition, presents the fundamentals of criminal investigation and provides a sound method for reconstructing a crime based on three major sources of information: people, physical evidence, and records. By breaking...
by Olof Dahlbäck
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Olof Dahlbäck's book breaks new ground for the analysis of crime from a rationality perspective by presenting models and methods that go far beyond those with which researchers have hitherto been equipped. The book examines single crimes, individual criminality, and societal crime, and it discusses...
Security by Design
Innovative Perspectives on Complex Problems
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
This edited book captures salient global security challenges and presents ‘design’ solutions in dealing with wicked problems. Through case studies and applied research this book reveals the many perspectives, tools and approaches to support security design. Security design thereby can support...
The Corporate’S Dogs
Based on a True Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
In todays fast-paced age of high stress and instant gratification, the answers to most ailments come in pill form. Pharmaceutical companies are making billions of dollars off this mentality despite the many negative side effects caused by these medications. If it is known that these chemicals can...
by Stephanos Bibas
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Two centuries ago, American criminal justice was run primarily by laymen. Jury trials passed moral judgment on crimes, vindicated victims and innocent defendants, and denounced the guilty. But since then, lawyers have gradually taken over the process, silencing victims and defendants and, in many...
Social work with sex offenders
Making a difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
This topical book engages with a wide range of issues related to social work practice with people who have sexually offended. It addresses the emotional impacts of ‘facing the sex offender’, the importance of values and ethics in practice, and reviews popular and academic understandings of sex...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Research on gender, sex, and crime today remains focused on topics that have been a mainstay of the field for several decades, but it has also recently expanded to include studies from a variety of disciplines, a growing number of countries, and on a wider range of crimes. The Oxford Handbook of Gender,...
Change and Reform in Law Enforcement
Old and New Efforts from Across the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book provides broad exposure to a variety of policing reforms that have not received adequate attention. It includes information and examples from different countries regarding efforts to change aspects of policing that are problematic or involve changes in the way crimes are committed. Some...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This second edition of the Handbook of Victims and Victimology presents a comprehensively revised and updated set of essays, bringing together internationally recognised scholars and practitioners to offer substantial research informed overviews within their specialist fields of investigation. This...