Criminology

The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections. The volume is a comprehensive and fresh approach...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949454062Author Paul SinghFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Singh Global InitiativesPublisher Singh Global InitiativesWeight(grams) 608g

A much needed guide on how to protect yourself and your family from becoming the victim of a stalker.Book InformationISBN 9780738206271Author Robert SnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US

This book offers an ethnographic study of the lives of girls in the juvenile justice system. Based on rich, narrative accounts, the girls at the center of the study are viewed as confronted with the power of simultaneous race, class, and gender...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949537062Author Paul BrakkeFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint American Leadership BooksPublisher American Leadership BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Juvenile Delinquency is a timely and comprehensive introduction to crime, justice, and young people, with an emphasis on theory and practice. The third edition retains the overall structure of the second edition and features updates throughout, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935434535Author Gael McCarteFormat PaperbackImprint Global Educational Advance, Inc.Publisher Global Educational Advance, Inc.Weight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644266915Author Roy GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Rosedog BooksPublisher Rosedog BooksWeight(grams) 95g

Conducting rural criminological research exposes researchers to concerns such as absence or inadequate official data about crime and superficial rural-urban comparisons, rural isolation and distance from the researchers’ office to the study site, and...

Experiments in Criminology and Law: A Research Revolution illustrates how experimental methods, particularly laboratory experiments, can be useful for researchers studying crime, deviance, and law. Scholars in these areas have typically relied on data...

A shocking firsthand account of a woman's fight for justice while being wrongly imprisoned, and the incredible stories of the women she meets on the inside. Anaite Alvarado was imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit, and forced to fight for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947466401Author Paul BrakkeFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Changemakers KidsPublisher Changemakers KidsWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589631038Author Allan PinkertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Fredonia Books (NL)Publisher Fredonia Books (NL)Weight(grams) 708g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512808711Author Marvin E. WolfgangFormat HardbackPage Count 414Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781169977174Author Cesare LombrosoFormat PaperbackPage Count 518Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 685g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410210395Author Lev SheininFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666733082Author Mark UmbreitFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591097273Author Timothy ChatmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610273367Author Dr Barry KrisbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Quid Pro, LLCPublisher Quid Pro, LLCWeight(grams) 308g

Executed Women of the 20th and 21st Centuries provides a look into the lives, crimes, and executions of women during the 20th and 21st centuries. Rather than dealing with these women as numbers and statistics, this book presents them as human beings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498595902Author Fonkem Achankeng IFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g

This book describes and analyzes conflict commodities, which the author defines as "high-value commodities trafficked in by networks of transnational criminals who use the illicitly derived proceeds to finance armed conflict and loot natural resource...

Robertson and Chaney examine how the early antecedents of police brutality like plantation overseers, the lynching of African American males, early race riots, the Rodney King incident, and the Los Angeles Rampart Scandal have directly impacted the...

Joseph Brown confessed to a burglary he committed with an accomplice, who got even by accusing Brown of a murder. Brown was convicted and sentenced to die, although the accomplice failed a polygraph test and admitted he lied. Brown, who came within hours...

To hone in on the complexities of prison downsizing and decarceration it is important to examine the different facets that play a part in these processes. To do so, this volume of The ANNALS brings together an inter-disciplinary group of scholars who...

Crime in the United States contains findings from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the offenses known to law enforcement. This reference is the most comprehensive official compilation of crime statistics in the United States and is an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610272117Author Laurie RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Quid Pro LLCPublisher Quid Pro LLCWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608058433Author Dirk C GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Bentham Science PublishersPublisher Bentham Science PublishersWeight(grams)...

The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world; in 2008, for every 100,000 citizens, 764 were in jails or prisons. Nearly half of ex-convicts commit crimes following release, a statistic which has given rise to support...

Centered on the concept of 'Maximization,' Matthew B. Robinson and Dr. Daniel S. Murphy offer a new theory of elite deviance and corporate crime called contextual anomie/strain theory. Exploring how simultaneous use of legitimate (i.e., legal) and...

Experiments in Criminology and Law: A Research Revolution illustrates how experimental methods, particularly laboratory experiments, can be useful for researchers studying crime, deviance, and law. Scholars in these areas have typically relied on data...

Since its inception in the late nineteenth century, the prevailing ethos of the police institution in Britain, has been said to rest on Sir Robert Peel's mantra of 1829 that 'the police are the public and the public are the police'. This refrain, of...

Since the year 2000, there have been approximately 200 school shootings in the United States. Unfortunately, this is not simply a U.S. problem. In 2017, a 15-year-old Canadian male student committed suicide after shooting two other students and a teacher...

The U.S. is the world's biggest jailor and one of the most affluent murderous countries, and yet its citizens pay more taxes to sustain law and order than their European counterparts. Yet, the U.S. has the most data in the world on the use of...

Problem Solving Courts explores a relatively new approach to criminal justice-one that can have a powerful impact on how convicts connect with their communities. Problem solving courts, born out of the drug court movement in the 1980s, are run by judges...

Class, Race, Gender, and Crime is a popular, and provocative, introduction to crime and the criminal justice system through the lens of class, race, gender, and their intersections. The book systematically explores how the main sites of power and...

Perverts and Predators elaborates on the numerous factors that have contributed to the passage of sexual offending laws in the United States. Authors Lisa and Laura Zilney weave together a story of how sex crimes laws were created by analyzing the...

In this volume the author clarifies the meaning and nature of supervision in social casework. Beginning with an examination of social casework itself, Virginia P. Robinson describes the basic: process which characterizes it, the process which supervision...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512804058Author Alastair W MacLeodFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

Drug Law Reform in East and Southeast Asia is a multi-author look at drugs in East and Southeast Asia, on drug policy, patterns and trends, local problems, human rights abuses, treatment prospects, and potential reforms. From the history of drugs in...