Criminology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789187611377Author Christer HolmgrenFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Timaios PressPublisher Timaios PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm...

Physical Security: 150 Things You Should Know, Second Edition is a useful reference for those at any stage of their security career. This practical guide covers the latest technological trends for managing the physical security needs of buildings and...

Billions of dollars are wasted each year trying to prevent 'dirty money' entering a financial system that is already awash with it. The authors challenge the global approach, arguing that complacency, self-interest and misunderstanding have now created...

'Fearless and fierce ... transcends a crime story to be a story that threatens social order' - Michael Connelly'Bewitching . . . a tale of horror that is also humane and self-aware' - Jennifer Egan'[Lauren] writes in film-noir ... American prose, so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781443428026Author Adrian HumphreysFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams)...

The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, reissued with a new preface by the author. In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies...

The book considers recent trends in the local governance of crime. It examines the growing appeal to `community' and `partnerships' in criminal justice policy and the involvement of actual communities and partnerships in criminal justice practices. The...

In 2009, Larry Alexander and Kimberly Ferzan published Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law. The book set out a theory that those who deserve punishment should receive punishment commensurate with, but no greater than, that which they deserve...

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid...

Robert Mazur spent five years undercover infiltrating the criminal hierarchy of Colombia's drug cartels. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befriended knew him as Bob Musella, a wealthy, mob-connected big shot living the good life. Together they...

Molecules of Murder is about infamous murderers and famous victims; about people like Harold Shipman, Alexander Litvinenko, Adelaide Bartlett, and Georgi Markov. Few books on poisons analyse these crimes from the viewpoint of the poison itself, doing so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956566048Author Jason NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Idigital GroupPublisher Idigital GroupWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 8mm

________________________________________AN UNSPEAKABLE CRIME When he was arrested in July 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer had a severed head in the refrigerator, two more in the freezer, two skulls and a skeleton in a filing cabinet.A DEPRIVED ACTBut if anything...

The Handbook of Criminal Justice Process is a new and authoritative account of the criminal justice system in England and Wales that engages with the central issues common to any major criminal justice system. Compiling the thoughts and opinions of...

Android Forensics: Investigation, Analysis, and Mobile Security for Google Android provides the background, techniques and analysis tools you need to effectively investigate an Android phone. This book offers a thorough review of the Android platform,...

This book analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long life sentences (with minimum terms of fifteen years or more). Based on a major study, including almost 150 interviews with men and women at...

Adrian Bleese spent twelve years flying on police helicopters, and attended almost 3,000 incidents, as one of only a handful of civilian air observers working anywhere in the world. In Above The Law he recounts the most intriguing, challenging, amusing...

Now a major BBC TV series.The definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The People V. O.J. Simpson is a prodigious feat of reporting that could have been written only by the foremost legal journalist of our time. First published less than a year...

Gender, Crime and Victimisation is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book, exploring gender patterns in both offending and victimisation. It offers a thorough examination of how these patterns in society are variously established and represented,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914221200Author Waithera SebatindiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Hajar PressPublisher Hajar Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250146540Author Rabia ChaudryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847711465Author Lyn EbenezerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

A specialized introduction to the philosophy, law and politics of human rights, uniquely tailored to criminologists and criminal justice practitioners. Exploring the connections between existing criminological scholarship and human rights frameworks, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869928681Author Jean Overton FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 369g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524744090Author Amy BlackstoneFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

This book offers a solution-focused and strengths-based guide to becoming an effective Prison Officer. Written and developed by a collection of ex-prisoners who are all now professionals, practitioners, and educators in the criminal justice field, the...

With contributions from leading authorities, this is the definitive guide to current criminological theory, research, and policy. The Oxford Handbook of Criminology provides a comprehensive collection of chapters covering the core and emerging topics...

Six celebrities. One dead signer. No way out. WELCOME TO THE CLINICThe world's most exclusive rehab clinic - a refuge for the rich and beautiful - and perhaps the perfect place for murder? Meg's sister Haley was a troubled country singer, hiding away...

Policing and corruption are inseparable. This book argues that corruption is not one thing but covers many deviant and criminal practices in policing which also shift over time. It rejects the 'bad apple' metaphor and focuses on 'bad orchards', meaning...

The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the guerrilla theater, the conflict was a vast sequence of home invasions, local traumas, and social...

Psychology of Gang Involvement expands existing knowledge by applying psychological knowledge to gangs, including how gang members think, their mental and emotional well-being, and their perceptions of gang involvement, as well as issues relating to gang...

Exam Board: AQA Level: A-Level Subject: Sociology First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: Summer 2016Create confident, literate and well-prepared students with skills-focused, topic-specific workbooks.- Prepare students to meet the demands of the 2015...

On March 2nd, 2019, Yousef Makki, a scholarship pupil at Manchester Grammar school, was stabbed in the heart by one of his friends on a quiet, leafy street in the wealthy Manchester suburb of Hale Barns. The two boys who were with him as the...

This book provides the most comprehensive and authoritative book yet published on the subject of criminal investigation, a rapidly developing area within the police and other law enforcement agencies, and an important sub discipline within police studies...

Chasing the Devil is the gripping firsthand account of Sheriff David Reichert's relentless pursuit of the Green River Killer -- a 21-year odyssey full of near-misses and startling revelations. For eight years, Sheriff David Reichert devoted his days and...

**Includes fascinating stories about Billy Fullerton, leader of the Billy Boys, featured in the latest series of BBC's Peaky Blinders**'A new type of criminal is in our midst - a dangerous, ruthless, well-armed man, who will stick at nothing, not even...

A superbly targeted resource for those wanting to learn about serial killings. Deals with and analyses some of the best known (as well as lesser) cases from English criminal history, ancient and modern. Looks at the lifestyles, backgrounds and activities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956566062Author Jason NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Idigital GroupPublisher Idigital GroupWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Since the classic contributions of Weber and Durkheim, the sociology of law has raised key questions on the place of law in society. Drawing together both theoretical and empirical themes, in this book Mathieu Deflem reviews the field's major...

Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentry's masterful portrait of America's top policeman is a unique political biography. From more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Gentry reveals exactly how a paranoid...