Technical Report for discussion at the ILO/Japan Regional Tripartite Seminar on Action against Sexual Harassment at Work in Asia and the Pacific Penang, Malaysia, 2-4 October 2001 Findings and conclusions: a summary Understanding sexual harassment at work in asia and the pacific Gender and sexual harassment: Views on differences and relations between men and women Attitudes and...
Canadian Edition – Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Higher Education, 2008. – ISBN10: 0070764085, ISBN13: 978-0070764088 In some ways, criminals are not all that different from "non criminals," except that environmental, social, and other factors have joined together in a particular configuration to produce criminal behaviours. So criminals are not really so different from the rest...
Siglo veintiuno editores, 2004. — 264 p. — ISBN: 987-1105-18-5 La razón de este volumen es la necesidad, surgida dentro del pensamiento criminológico contemporáneo, de una sociología jurídico-penal que permita el análisis del funcionamiento efectivo del sistema penal en la sociedad capitalista avanzada. En efecto, la “nueva criminología” o “criminología crítica”, adoptando una...
USA: Nolo, 2007. - 616 p. The best plain-English book on criminal law available! The criminal justice system is a complex maze, full of confusing rules and procedures. Fortunately, you can turn to this book for clear and complete explanations. The Criminal Law Handbook answers your questions about every part of a criminal case. Find out everything you've ever wanted to know...
Stockholm: Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology, 1990. - vi, 141 p. Long-term Consequences of being a Victim of Violence (Kauko Aromaa). Innovative Non-custodial Sanctions (Ulla V. Bondeson). Alternative Ways of Controlling Environmental Crime (Jan Georg Christophersen). Criminality among Swedish Birth Cohorts (Hanns von Hofer). Criminality, Sex and Class (Cecilie...
Wadsworth Publishing, 2010. - 208 c. ISBN: 0495807508 This slim volume offers a comprehensive survey of the major criminological and delinquency theories, including their philosophical foundations, policy implications, empirical support, and criticisms. A PRIMER ON CRIME AND DELINQUENCY THEORY can be used as a primary text or as a supplement for other texts, anthologies, or...
Matthew Bender & Company, 2010. - 650 p. 7 edition 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 discussion of the...
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2016. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0470974826, 0470974818. This book draws on the latest literature to highlight a fundamental challenge in offender rehabilitation; it questions the ability of contemporary approaches to address this challenge, and proposes an alternative strategy of criminal justice that integrates control, opportunity, and autonomy. Provides an up...
London: Routledge, 2009. — 557 p. — ISBN: 0-203-88494-9. Criminology is relatively new as a degree subject but it began at least 250 years ago. Since then, it has been shaped by philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, medics and lawyers as well as by sociologists, social theorists, cultural analysts and historians. As Zedner (2007a) observes, one of...
Willan Publishing, 2009. - 368 p. ISBN: 1843923416 This book aims to provide an understanding of youth offending and policy and practice responses, particularly the risk-focused approaches that have underpinned much recent academic research, youth justice policy and interventions designed to reduce and prevent problem behaviour. There has been growing concern, however, on the...
Illustrated ed. — Atria Books, 2019. — 230 p. — ISBN10: 1982112514, 13 978-1982112516. A hilarious, entertaining, and illuminating compendium of the most bizarre ways you might become a federal criminal in America-from mailing a mongoose to selling Swiss cheese without enough holes-written and illustrated by the creator of the wildly popular @CrimeADay Twitter account. Have you...
3rd Ed. — Facts on File, 2016. — 397 p. — (Facts on File Library of Health & Living). — ISBN10: 0816066779. — ISBN13: 978-0816066773. More than three million children are the victims of various types of abuse each year. "The Encyclopedia of Child Abuse, Third Edition" is a comprehensive guide to the characteristics and causes of abuse, its impact on children, different types of...
De Boree, 2012. — 483 p. — ISBN: 2812906014 Le crime au féminin est plus rare que celui perpétré au masculin. Il concerne une minorité des crimes de sang jugés chaque année depuis plus d’un siècle et demi dans notre pays. Avant l’abolition de la peine capitale en 1981, la criminelle est également beaucoup moins condamnée à mort. Et quand elle l’est, la grâce lui est le plus...
Palgrave Macmillan. Houndmills, UK and New York, USA. 2007. 261 p. Index included. ISBN13: 978-0-230-00170-1 hardback ISBN10: 0-230-00170-X hardback Rape as Social Activity: an Application of Investigative Linguistics The Elicitation of a Confession: Admitting Murder but Resisting an Accusation of Attempted Rape 'Just Good Friends': Managing the Clash of Discourses in Police...
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library. 2010. ISBN: 0203869230 (Master e-book ISBN). Series: Key Ideas in Criminology. Critical criminology: definition and brief history - Contemporary critical criminological schools of thought - Contemporary critical criminological research - Confronting crime: critical criminological policies. The concept of critical...
Facts on File, 2005. — 386 p. In the U.S., organized crime has largely been associated with the Mafia. What this encyclopedia attempts to do is provide a definitive reference source that reveals the depth and breadth of all organized criminal activity around the world. In 450 entries, it covers all of the major criminal groups, detailing their origins and operations and showing...
2nd ed. — Macmillan Reference USA, 2016. — 535 p. — ISBN10: 002865319X. — ISBN13: 978-0028653198 A complete revision of the 1982 edition, the "Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice" is a unique interdisciplinary source, dealing with not only law but also sociology, psychology, history and economics. With entries ranging widely from abortion to rape and from family violence to...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. - 472 p. ISBN: 0521899451 This volume presents 19 original essays addressing what is widely regarded as the most serious problem confronting America today and for years to come - terrorism - from the unique perspective of criminology. The chapters collected here address such issues as the prevention of terrorism, the applicability of community...
Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland, 2017. — 125 p. — (SpringerBriefs in Criminology) — ISBN: 3319331736. This Brief provides specific recommendations for police professionals to reduce the influence of implicit bias on police practice, which will improve both effectiveness (in a shift towards evidence-based, rather than bias-based) practices and police...
Springer, 2011. — 229 p. This book explores the accounts given by white-collar crime offenders to defend their criminal behaviour in order to preserve their characters and social standing. It is based on in-depth interviews with 41 male and female convicted white-collar offenders, who were still serving their sentences in English prisons. Whilst a number of texts have been...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 468 p. Over the past three decades the United States has built a carceral state that is unprecedented among Western countries and in U.S. history. Nearly one in fifty people, excluding children and the elderly, is incarcerated today, a rate unsurpassed anywhere else in the world. What are some of the main political forces that explain this...
Routledge, 2010. — 352 p. — (Routledge Key Guides). — ISBN10: 0415429102, ISBN13: 978-0415429108 Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology brings the history of criminological thought alive through a collection of fascinating life stories. The book covers a range of historical and contemporary thinkers from around the world, offering a stimulating combination of biographical fact with...
Array: Wiley Blackwell, 2018. — 560 p. This Handbook presents current and future studies on the changing dynamics of the role of immigrants and the impact of immigration, across the United States and industrialized and developing nations. It covers the changing dynamics of race, ethnicity, and immigration, and discusses how it all contributes to variations in crime, policing,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 592 p. — (Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice). — ISBN10: 1118868781. — ISBN13: 978-1118868782 This volume of the series was designed to provide a comprehensive primer on the existing best practices and emerging developments in the study and design research on crime and criminology. The work as a whole includes chapters on the...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 250 p. Despite its suspected prevalence, no comprehensive analysis of police corruption has been published for nearly three decades. Fallen Blue Knights provides a systematic, in-depth analysis of the subject, while also addressing the question of what can be done to ensure successful corruption control. Kutnjak Ivković argues that the current...
Routledge, 2016. - 660 p. This handbook is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays that investigate the contribution of Critical Terrorism Studies to our understanding of contemporary terrorism and counterterrorism. Terrorism remains one of the most important security and political issues of our time. After 9/11, Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) emerged as an...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 169 p. Street Justice: Retaliation in the Criminal Underworld is the first systematic exploration of the phenomenon of modern-day retaliation to be written from the perspective of currently active criminals who have experienced it firsthand – as offenders, victims, or both. Retaliation lies at the heart of much of the violence that plagues...
World Scientific, 2003. - 420 p. Fundamental changes within economies are needed to create arm’s-length relations between governments, corporations, and banks. We are taking risks when investing in the future, and risk-taking demands openness and truthfulness from the agents we employ. If investors and accountants can concur on the degree of disclosure that is morally right we...
UK: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2006. - 272 p. Focusing on key themes relevant to the victim of crime, including the power of private prosecution, public prosecution, policing, punishment, the victim rights movement and attempts to redefine victimhood, this groundbreaking study provides a new conceptualization of the notion of the victim. Drawing on vast historical materials, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 295 p. This book examines the main ethical questions that confront the criminal justice system -- legislature, law enforcement, courts, and corrections -- and those who work within that system, especially police officers, prosecutors, defense lawyers, judges, juries, and prison officers. John Kleinig sets the issues in the context of a...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 303 p. How can the average “criminal career” be characterized and how common are career criminals? Does offending become more specialized and/or more serious as people get older? Do female careers in crime differ from those of males in substance or only in magnitude? Britta Kyvsgaard examines these questions through her longitudinal analysis...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 256 p. Over the last two decades, in the wake of increases in recorded crime and a cluster of other social changes, British criminal justice policy has become increasingly politicised: both the scale and intensity of punishment, and the significance of criminal justice policy as an index of governments’ competence, have developed in new and...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 261 p. Tort Wars brings together the diverse and usually insufficiently related strands of tort lawand treats the moral, economic, and systemic problems running through those strands with a single analysis and a single theory. In that tort law employs theory at all, it is typically theory measured against notions of corrective justice or...
Wiley, 2009. - 361 p. ISBN: 0470741600, 0470062029 A practical treatment manual, specifically developed for use with offenders who have intellectual disabilities, which will help clinicians to prepare and run therapeutic group sessions as part of an offender rehabilitation programme. Traditional methods and techniques have been modified so that they can be used with offenders...
Bristol University Press, 2019. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-1529202489, 1529202485. Policing and security provision are subjects central to criminology. Yet there are newer and neglected forms that are currently unscrutinised. By examining the work of community safety officers, ambassador patrols, conservation officers, and private police foundations, who operate on and are animated...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 200 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-16241-9. Criminal Defense in China studies empirically the everyday work and political mobilization of defense lawyers in China. It builds upon 329 interviews across China, and other social science methods, to investigate and analyze the interweaving of politics and practice in five segments of the practicing criminal...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 213 p. Terrorism is often seen as a Middle Eastern problem and terrorists are often perceived as only having a Muslim background. It may surprise many to learn that Americans are and have been terrorists since the birth of the nation. This book investigates and discusses many instances in which Americans were themselves the terrorists and the victims.
Udžbenik. — 1. izd. — Banja Luka: Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Banjoj Luci, 2007. — 243 str. Uvod u kriminologiju. Pojam kriminologije. Predmet kriminologije. Podjela kriminologije. Metodi kriminologije. Odnos kriminologije sa drugim naukama. Istorijski razvoj kriminološke misli. Kriminološka misao u okviru opšteg filozofskog i humanističkog razmišljanja. Period klasične...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. — 406 p. — (Terrorism, Security, and Computation) — ISBN: 3319621076. This book covers the security and safety of CBRNE assets and management, and illustrates which risks may emerge and how to counter them through an enhanced risk management approach. It also tackles the CBRNE-Cyber threats, their risk mitigation measures and the...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. — 406 p. — (Terrorism, Security, and Computation) — ISBN: 3319621076. This book covers the security and safety of CBRNE assets and management, and illustrates which risks may emerge and how to counter them through an enhanced risk management approach. It also tackles the CBRNE-Cyber threats, their risk mitigation measures and the...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — 544 p. — ASIN B00NPRQ85G, ISBN 1442235772, 1442235780. The symbolic value of targets is what differentiates terrorism from other forms of extreme violence. Terrorism is designed to inflict deep psychological wounds on an enemy rather than demolish its material ability to fight. The September 11, 2001 attacks, for example, demonstrated...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 150 p. — (Crime Prevention and Security Management). — ISBN10: 3319694006, 13 978-3319694009. Through analysis of data held by the National Crime Agency on organised crime groups, and in-depth analysis of qualitative interviews with convicted fraudsters and enforcement professionals, this detailed study fills a significant gap in the contemporary...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 125 p. — (Crime Prevention and Security Management). — ISBN10: 3319694006, 13 978-3319694009. Through analysis of data held by the National Crime Agency on organised crime groups, and in-depth analysis of qualitative interviews with convicted fraudsters and enforcement professionals, this detailed study fills a significant gap in the contemporary...
N.Y., L.: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997. — 266 p. Series Editor's Foreword Theoretical Integration Dueling Paradigms: Modernist v. Postmodernist Thought The Decentered Subject in Law: Contributions of Topology, Psychoanalytic Semiotics, and Chaos Theory Borromean Knots and the Constitution of Sense in Juridico-Discursive Production Constitutive Criminology: The Maturation of...
Princeton University Press, 2002 - 257 p. Violence so often begets violence. Victims respond with revenge only to inspire seemingly endless cycles of retaliation. Conflicts between nations, between ethnic groups, between strangers, and between family members differ in so many ways and yet often share this dynamic. In this powerful and timely book Martha Minow and others ask:...
Rutgers University Press, 2010. - 224 p. ISBN: 0813547652 Series: Critical Issues in Crime and Society Threats of terrorism, natural disaster, identity theft, job loss, illegal immigration, and even biblical apocalypse-all are perils that trigger alarm in people today. Although there may be a factual basis for many of these fears, they do not simply represent objective...
USA: FBI, 2005. — 71 p. This monograph presents the fi ndings and collective wisdom of a multidisciplinary group of experts, who brought their individual experience and insights to the same table. Our hope is that it will give you new ideas and new resources as you continue your important work. The FBI is committed to contributing to the understanding of these horrifi c acts....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 242 p. On July 4, 2000, three young Asian American men visiting the small town of Ocean Shores, Washington, were attacked by a group of skinheads in the parking lot of a Texaco station. Threats and slurs gave way to violence and, ultimately, a fatal stabbing. But this tragedy culminated with a twist. A young white man, flaunting a Confederate flag...
3rd Edition. — Routledge, New York, USA, 2017. — 1168 p. — ISBN: 9781138643130. Comprehensive and accessible, Tim Newburn’s bestselling Criminology provides an introduction to the fundamental themes, concepts, theories, methods and events that underpin the subject and form the basis for all undergraduate degree courses and modules in Criminology and Criminal Justice. This third...
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. — 230 p. O'Hagan explores the phenomenon of filicide, a deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. Examining over 120 cases of filicide in the UK, this book identifies relationship and family patterns in which situations may rapidly deteriorate, and children may become the ultimate weapon in disputes between partners.
Random House, 2005. — 303 p. One of the world’s foremost authorities on the subject of suicide terrorism, the esteemed political scientist Robert Pape has created the first comprehensive database of every suicide terrorist attack in the world from 1980 until today. In Dying to Win, Pape provides a groundbreaking demographic profile of modern suicide terrorist attackers–and his...
Academic Press, 2009. — 625 p. Forensic Criminology gives students of criminology and criminal justice an introduction to the forensic realm and the applied forensic issues they will face when working cases within the justice system. It effectively bridges the theoretical world of social criminology with the applied world of the criminal justice system. While most of the...
New York: Springer, 2016. - 287 p. This volume illustrates to the public, and legal experts, the basic principles of the field of neuroscience, that commonly goes under the name of Neurolaw. First, it illustrates the relationship between neuroscience, natural sciences and social sciences. Furthermore, it highlights numerous problems concerning the fundamental philosophical...
Routledge, 2009. — 375 p. — ISBN: 978-020-3-86994-9 Part One: Eighteenth — Century Predecessors Part Two: Phrenology Part Three: Moral and Mental Insanity Part Four: Evolution, degeneration, and heredity Part Five: The underclass and the underworld Part Six: Criminal anthropology Part Seven: Habitual criminals and their identification Part Eight: Eugenic criminology Part Nine:...
Palgrave Macmillan US. 2017 (Series: Palgrave's Frontiers in Criminology Theory) eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57234-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57234-9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57233-2 This book represents a brief treatise on the theory and research behind the concept of desistance from crime. This ever-growing field has become increasingly relevant as questions of serious issues...
México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1989. — 160 p. El derecho. Elementos del delito. La prevención y readaptación social del menor. La prostitución. Agresividad y rebeldía. Comentario respecto a instituciones norteamericanas observadas en el estado de Florida. La corrupción de los menores. Consideraciones en torno a la Ley de los Consejos Tutelares para menores...
Humana Press, 2011 . - 215 p. ISBN: 1617792543 Juvenile homicide and fatal maltreatment remain serious and pervasive problems in the developed world and especially in the United States, where in 2005 some 1,500 children died from neglect and physical abuse. Alarming statistics such as this, as well as an upsurge in the media attention paid to all things forensic, underscore the...
Routledge, 2019. — 220 p. This collection explores organized crime and terror networks and the points at which they intersect. It analyses the close relationships between these criminalities, the prevalence and ambiguity of this nexus, the technological elements facilitating it, and the financial aspects embedded in this criminal partnership. Organized Crime and Terrorist...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 376 p. ISBN: 0230241522 Although the subject of children's rights and the sociology of childhood and child sexual abuse has been the subject of extensive scholarly deliberation and commentary, there has been very little consideration of the way networks and digital information create a trust deficit, which consequently implicates all non-State actors...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 331 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-026326-5 Interrogating Torture Dangerous Torment Benchmarking Interrogational Torture A Quixotic Model of Interrogational Torture A Realistic Model of Interrogational Torture A Brutal Logic A Matter of Calculation Suprise Torture Ambiguous Information and False Confirmation Valuable Information, Selective Torture...
Dorling Kindersley, 2017. — 352 p. — (Big Ideas Simply Explained). — ISBN: 1465462864. An essential guide to criminology, exploring the most infamous cases of all time, from serial killers to mob hits to war crimes and more. From Jack the Ripper to Jeffrey Dahmer, The Crime Book is a complete study of international true crime history that unpacks the shocking stories through...
Dorling Kindersley, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN: 1465462864. An essential guide to criminology, exploring the most infamous cases of all time, from serial killers to mob hits to war crimes and more. From Jack the Ripper to Jeffrey Dahmer, The Crime Book is a complete study of international true crime history that unpacks the shocking stories through infographics and in-depth research...
Dordrecht: Springer, 2015. – 110 p. – ISBN: 978-3-319-15870-9 – (Springer Briefs in Criminology) This Brief studies the important role that tattoos play in prison culture, and examines its unique manifestation among minority inmates. This work aims to provide a better understanding of prison group culture, particularly among social marginal groups, through the lens of Russian...
Springer, 2012. — 196 p. — (Studies of Organized Crime. Volume 11). — ISBN-10: 1461432111, ISBN-13: 9781461432111 Despite strenuous efforts from local, national, and international law enforcement, organized crime continues to thrive and prosper even centuries-old crime outfits are surviving the global forces of mass migration and multinational business and finance. From...
Wadsworth Publishing, 9th edition, 2006. 698 p. With an in-depth analysis of all areas of criminological theory and crime typologies, this best-selling text provides you with the tools you need to succeed in your criminology course. Studying is made easy with chapter objectives, end-of-chapter reviews, key concepts, concepts summary tables, and newsworthy examples that help you...
12th Ed. — Cengage Learning, 2017. — 645 p. — ISBN10: 1305633393. — ISBN13: 978-1305633391. Bestselling Criminology: Theories, Patterns and Typologies, now in its Twelfth Edition, delivers the most comprehensive, in-depth analysis of criminological theory and crime typologies available. This book is also unrivaled in its strong research base and currency, with detailed coverage...
4th edition. — Wadsworth Publishing: Cengage Learning, 2010. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 0495809837; ISBN13: 978-0495809838. Concise, current, and affordable, best-selling CRIMINOLOGY: THE CORE, Fourth Edition delivers cutting-edge coverage in a succinct, student-friendly paperback. Author Larry Siegel guides readers through the fast-paced field of criminology, its most current...
Infobase Publishing, 2006. — 529 p. They're all there, starting with Anthony Joseph Accardo (1906-1992), the Chicago mob leader known as Tony to crime pals, Mr. Accardo to underlings, Joe Batters to his subordinates, and as "having more brains before breakfast than Al Capone had all day" to syndicate supporters, and working through the alphabet to Abner "Longy" Zwillman...
World Bank Publications, 2014. — 76 p. This report provides an overview of arguments explaining the risk of corruption. Corrupt acts are subject to decision making authority and assets available for grabbing. These assets can be stolen, created by artificial shortage, or become available as the result of a market failure. Assets that are especially exposed to corruption include...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 414 p. The success of the four core freedoms of the EU has created fertile ground for transnational organised crime. Innovative, transnational legal weapons are therefore required by national authorities. The availability of data on criminal convictions is at the forefront of the debate. But which mechanism for availability can be used...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 366 p. ISBN: 0521898196 Terrorism and torture are twin evils that have dominated news headlines - particularly since the horrifying events of 9/ 11. In this thought-provoking volume, scholars from a diverse range of disciplines examine the complex motivational and situational factors contributing to terrorist acts and state-sponsored torture,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2007 . — 537 p. — ISBN: 978-1405175623. The Blackwell Companion to Criminology provides a contemporary and global resource to scholarship in both classical and topical areas of criminology. Written accessibly, and with its international perspective and first-rate scholarship, this is truly the first global handbook of criminology. - Editors and contributors are...
London and Boston: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1975. — xii, 268 p. Critical criminology in Britain: review and prospects ( Ian Taylor, Paul Walton and Jock Young ). Working-class criminology ( Jock Young ). Prospects for a radical criminology in the USA ( Tony Platt ). Defenders of order or guardians of human rights? ( Herman and Julia Schwendinger ) Misfit sociology and the...
London and Boston: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1973. — xv, 325 p. Classical criminology and the positivist revolution. The appeal of positivism. Durkheim and the break with "analytical individualism". The early sociologies of crime. Social reaction, deviant commitment and career. American naturalism and phenomenology. Marx, Engels and Bonger on crime and social control. The new...
London: Penguin Books Ltd, 1988. — 336 p. Few stories have fastened their claws so firmly into the public imagination as the notorious and gruesome Whitechapel Murders of 1888. They were responsible for one of the most evocative legends in English folk history - Jack the Ripper. Best of all - for the myth-makers, that is - he was never caught, and there has never been a...
Burlington, MA: Elsevier Science,Academic Press, 2011. - 728 p. ISBN: 0123852439 Now in its fourth edition, Criminal Profiling is an established text centered on the deductive profiling method developed by the author. Deductive profiling is different from other forms of profiling in that it does not involve averaged, statistical profiles. Instead it focuses on criminal...
Knopf, 2019. — 560 p. — ISBN: 978-0451492944 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1524711641 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0451492951 (ebook). A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 335 p. Oscar, physically and sexually abusive, stabbed his partner and two stepdaughters to death, buried the bodies, and fled the state with his two younger children. Paul, a respected investment banker, donned a Halloween mask and shot his wife and two children before turning the gun on himself. What drives individuals as different as Oscar...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 189 p. Studies of the criminal career to date have focused on common criminals and street crime; criminologists have overlooked the careers of white-collar offenders. David Weisburd and Elin Waring offer here the first detailed examination of the criminal careers of people convicted of white-collar crimes. Weisburd and Waring uncover some...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. - 368 p. ISBN10: 0807825352 Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of biological research into the causes of crime, but the origins of this kind of research date back to the late nineteenth century. Here, Richard Wetzell presents the first history of German criminology from Imperial Germany through the Weimar Republic to the end...
6th edition. — Wadsworth Publishing, 2008. — 592 p. — ISBN: 0534624480. Terrorism and Homeland Security: An Introduction, Sixth Edition, is the best-selling terrorism book on the market. National terrorism expert Jonathan R. White provides specific examples that will enable you to understand how terrorism arises and how it functions. Dr. White gives essential historical...
German - Springer, 2012. - 375 p. ISBN: 3642274218 Bei sexuellen Missbrauchsvorwürfen steht so gut wie immer die Existenz des Beschuldigten auf dem Spiel, gleich, ob die Beschuldigung zu Recht oder Unrecht erhoben wird. In den Fällen des sexuellen Missbrauchs geht es häufig um die beweisrechtlich schwierige Situation Aussage gegen Aussage. Hier sind Vorwürfe des öfteren falsch...
CRC Press, 2017. — 580 p. — ISBN10: 1498733670. This text presents an international approach to the study of crime prevention. It offers an expansive overview of crime prevention initiatives and how they are applied across a wide range of themes and infractions, from conventional to non-conventional forms of crime. Based on a review of the literature, this is the first text to...
Springer Publishing Company, 2009. - 533 p. ISBN: 0826111092 This fine book by Richard Wright and his distinguished collaborators provides the evidence that wise policy-makers would want to consider. It covers every major field of research concerning sex offenders and sexual offenses and provides evidence of bad practices and policies?.Intellectually honest politicians should...
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