Criminology

A complex phenomenon which has undergone significant changes in the past forty years, Leslie Holmes argues that organised crime is in need of re-conceptualisation. This innovative book navigates the evolution of this issue to grasp its full scope in the...

Urban violence still has a peculiar standing within social and urban research. This book works to unpack the link between urban, violence, and security with three main arguments. The first is that urban violence is under-theorized because long-term...

In this unique study, authors Komanduri Murty, Angela Owens, and Ashwin Vyas examine the life histories of Black male prisoners in the U.S. Federal Prison system to determine what patterns of behavior or life experiences influenced or precipitated their...

This is a major addition to the field: a complete guide for the investigator and prosecutor in criminal cases as well as an in depth tool for defense attorneys. The practical and procedural nature of this law enforcement tool makes its use often subject...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789517464741Author Anu KoskivirtaFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seuraPublisher Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden...

Organized crime has played a significant social role in cultures all over the world. This is the first book to establish a timeline of global organized criminal activity, which spans eight millennia. Entries are arranged chronologically and represent...

Within corrections, women have made notable impacts in policy, cultural changes, and leadership, yet they have received little attention and study. Based on quantitative and qualitative data, this book fills that gap, examining women in corrections...

The overwhelming majority of police calls involve individuals with mental health experiences and yet limited resources exist to prepare first responders for these interactions. Police Response to Mental Health in Canada addresses this gap in the field,...

Practitioners in the animal welfare field, law enforcement circles, and social services arena have often maintained that childhood cruelty to animals is a forerunner to violence against people. Does this behavior serve as a red flag with respect to...

An exciting account of the legendary Loomis Gang which terrorized Central New York during the mid- 1800s. This is an adaptation of Frontier Justice: The Rise and Fall of the Loomis Gang for young readers.Book InformationISBN 9780925168566Author M. ., E...

Murguia explores food and foodways within institutions of incarceration. Food, like all resources within total institutions, is vulnerable to social manipulation. Within jail and prison settings, food becomes both a mechanism of control and resistance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938087325Author Rick JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Channel Custom PublishingPublisher Channel Custom PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Providing a comparative analysis of both vulnerable witnesses and vulnerable suspects, this book discusses the increasingly difficult issue faced by many in modern policing, forensic psychology, criminology, and social justice studies.Examining recent...

When he visited in 2011, sociologist Adam Baird wondered what the Bloods and Crips were doing in Southside Belize City. He soon discovered that migrant Belizean members of colors gangs from South Central Los Angeles were deported there in the 1980s. Once...

This book is a how-to guide on statistical analyses designed for undergraduates and others new to the subject. It uses a conceptual framework, starting with the most basic concepts of statistics and moving up through the capacity to perform bivariate...

The rise of mass incarceration in the United States is one of the most critical outcomes of the last half-century. Incarceration Nation offers the most compelling explanation of this outcome to date. This book combines in-depth analysis of Barry...

When the victims of injustice lose faith in their justice system, the crime they've endured cuts only deeper, adding insult to injury. The time has come to face the truth that most victims of crime will not have their needs met and often won't experience...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788494665943Author Majid YarFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Criminologia y Justicia EditorialPublisher Criminologia y Justicia EditorialWeight(grams)...

While fraud is generally associated with the business world, this book demonstrates that there is also a good deal of fraud and deception among scientists, writers and philanthropists. Scientists will sometimes announce fraudulent findings in order to...

Work on risk has developed into a large industry applied in a variety of ways and locations. Here we locate crime research in the overall interdisciplinary study of risk and begin to address how risk can be used as a key element in our understanding of...

Have you always wanted to know what makes an ordinary person commit a crime? Explore the dark side of human nature with this illuminating beginner's guide to criminology.There are few subjects more compelling or divisive than criminology. Whether crime...

Theft of a Nation presents a powerful criminological examination of Wall Street's recent financial meltdown and its profound impact on the rest of the country. This provocative book asks why, if the actions of key players on Wall Street and in the...

For centuries scholars have studied the possible causes of criminal behavior in the hopes of shedding light on one of society's most persistent problems. This volume examines criminology from the perspective of those centuries of study. Written by a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947466012Author Paul BrakkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Changemakers KidsPublisher Changemakers KidsWeight(grams) 77g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947466050Author Paul BrakkeFormat HardbackPage Count 46Imprint Changemakers KidsPublisher Changemakers KidsWeight(grams) 152g

Over the last two‑plus decades, the scientific validity of the principles that underpin identifying a firearm from recovered fired ammunition has been a core issue for the admissibility of expert evidence in criminal trials in the United States. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666727388Author Mark UmbreitFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735279794Author Arturo Hernandez-SametierFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Luna Triste PressPublisher Luna Triste PressWeight(grams) 133g

The Police in Hong Kong is the first comprehensive study of the Hong Kong Police Force, one of the largest police organizations in the world. Through detailed examinations of police practices and their value orientations, Professor Jiao aims to develop...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800160941Author Sharon BrummerFormat PaperbackPage Count 257Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie PublishersWeight(grams) 156g

In 1894, when A. S. Mercer published this angry eyewitness account of the cattlemen's invasion of Wyoming, the book was so thoroughly and ruthlessly suppressed that few copies of that edition remain today. Although historians have since questioned some...

Many factors contribute to attrition in sexual offense cases from victim reluctance to systemic barriers. This book examines the attrition of sexual offenses across seven countries—Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and...

African-American Males and the Law analyzes the plight of African-American males in the United States and identifies how their status is directly or indirectly impacted by the justice system. The author initiates a dialogue on legal issues facing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013290923Author Petter GottschalkFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735279763Author Arturo Hernandez-SametierFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Luna Triste PressPublisher Luna Triste PressWeight(grams) 133g

Disruptive Prisoners reconstitutes the history of Canada's federal prison system in the mid-twentieth century through a process of collective biography - one involving prisoners, administrators, prison reformers, and politicians. This social history...

Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories opens up new and exciting perspectives on how systems of state surveillance developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Taking a transnational approach, the book challenges us to rethink the...

Security and Risk Technologies in Criminal Justice takes students through the evolution of risk technology devices, processes, and prevention. This seminal text unpacks technology's influence on our understanding of governance and social order in areas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947466043Author Paul BrakkeFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Changemakers KidsPublisher Changemakers KidsWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941755204Author Wendell C WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 152g